Official language:
French

Other languages:
Kikongo
Lingala
Swahili
Tshiluba

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• Congolese women are clearly regarded as inferior to males, even though many ethnic groups trace family membership through the mother.
  
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• Christianity
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• The staple dish is a porridge of grains and cassava roots.
• The most popular dish is moambé, a spicy stew of peanuts, palm oil, and chicken served with yams, native loso rice, or, most commonly, fufu, a paste of mashed manioc (cassava).
• Diet also consists of sweet potatoes, bananas, plantains, fruits, and fish, particularly perch.
• Beef is generally only eaten in the higher regions of the country that are free of the tsetse fly.
  
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• By the 14th century, three politically complex kingdoms had arisen in the Congo - the Kongo kingdom, and the Luba and Lunda empires.
• The Congo River and its tributaries provide about 8000 miles of waterway transportation for the interior, which is sometimes the only way travel.
  
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