Lele people

The Lele, also known as Bashilele or Usilele, are a subgroup of 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

↑ Encyclopedia of African Peoples (Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago and London, 2000), s.v. Lele (p. 125).
↑ Mary Douglas, The Lele of the Kasai (1963), ch. 1.
↑ Mary Douglas, "Sorcery Accusations Unleashed: The Lele Revisited", in Implicit Meanings (2nd ed., Routledge, 1999), pp. 78-80.
↑ Lele language at Ethnologue (16th ed., 2009)

Ethnic groups in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Indigenous	Alur Amba Avukaya Baka Bakwa Dishi Banda Banyamulenge Bemba Bembe Boa Budu Bunda Bwile Chokwe Dengese Efé Furiiru Garanganze Gbaya Great Lakes Twa Hema Hemba Holoholo Hutu Iyaelima Kakwa Kango Kele Keliko Kongo Konjo Lega Lele Lendu Logo Luba Lugbara Lulua Lunda Lungu M'Baka Mangbetu Mbo Mbole Mbunda Mbuti Mongo Mongo Twa Mono Moru Mpama Ndaka Ngando Ngata Ngbandi Nyanga Pende Sanga Songora Songye Suku Tagbu Teke Tetela Topoke Tumbwe Turumbu Tutsi Vira Wochua Yaka Yakoma Yombe Yulu Zande Zyoba

Non-indigenous	Chinese Europeans Greek Jewish

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