The project
Rivers as highways, rivers for food: the role of waterways in the Bantu expansions towards the eastern Congo Basin.
On the road
Forest fishing in Northeastern DR Congo: anthropological research on comparative technologies
The Major Linguistic Fieldwork Campaign of the BANTURIVERS project, 2021-2022: 50 Bantu, 1 Ubangi and 3 Central-Sudanic language varieties covered
The Novel Coronavirus Pandemic: Its Impact on Fieldwork and the People of the DRCongo
When a pandemic puts fieldwork to an end and demands repatriation.
Events
BANTURIVERS PhD candidate David Kopa wa Kopa now doctor of linguistics
“Social spaces, languages, and material culture in the history of the northern Congo Basin”, an international conference in humanities and the social sciences at the University of Kisangani
Essays
Chaine opératoire of the netting shuttle (itchwaki) and net weights (tokoko) by a Lokele fisherman in Banalia (August 2023) (written by La joie Vutseme Sokoni)
Besemaka, young canoe maker (Opala, August 2023) (written by Emmanuel Makoka Lindembo)
Read us
Publication in linguistics: from a lexical stratigraphy of three Lega languages to the history of contact at the lower Lualaba
Publication on pottery techniques in the northeastern Congo Basin (DRC)
