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
“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
International Conference, June 17th – 21st, 2024, Kisangani (ULB – UNIKIS): Social spaces, languages, and material culture in the history of the northern Congo Basin
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
Report of archaeological fieldwork: BANTURIVERS archaeological fieldwork in the Tshopo Province (DRC): prospections and surveys along the Congo and Lomami rivers
Multidisciplinary publication: vernacular histories, colonial interpretations and linguistic data on the settlement of the lower Lualaba
