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Ethnic group in Western Democratic Republic of the Congo
The Lele (or Leele), also known as Bashilele or Usilele, are a
Bantu ethnic group closely related to the
Kuba people in the
Democratic Republic of the Congo.
[1] They traditionally live in the
Kasai River region,
[2] but since the 1950s many have migrated to
Kinshasa.
[3] There are currently about 30,000 Lele, of which 26,000 speak the
Lele language.
[4]
References
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^ Encyclopedia of African Peoples (Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago and London, 2000), s.v. Lele (p. 125).
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^
Mary Douglas,
The Lele of the Kasai (1963), ch. 1.
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^
Mary Douglas, "Sorcery Accusations Unleashed: The Lele Revisited", in
Implicit Meanings (2nd ed.,
Routledge, 1999), pp. 78-80.
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Lele at
Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)