Lokele tribe

Lokele / Enya / Wagenia

Lokele / Kele / Enya / Wagenia / Ekele / Kili / Likelo / Yakusu

The Lokele people (or Kele) are a Bantu ethnic group of about 564,000 people only found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

They mainly live on the south bank of the Congo River between Kisangani and Isangi.

Wagenia is the name of a place and of the people living there (Lokele tribe); situated in the northern part of D.R. Congo, by the city of Kisangani and on the lower reaches of the Boyoma Falls. As a result, the seventh and last cataract on the Boyoma is named the Wagenia Falls.

Their primary language is Kele (Democratic Republic of Congo)

Lokele tribe

Lokele tribe

Lokele tribe

Lokele tribe

Lokele tribe

Lokele tribe

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