Lokilo

Lokilo
Lokilo
Coordinates: 0°27′00″S 24°01′00″E / 0.45°S 24.01667°E / -0.45; 24.01667Coordinates: 0°27′00″S 24°01′00″E / 0.45°S 24.01667°E / -0.45; 24.01667
Country Democratic Republic of Congo
District Tshopo
Territory Opala

Lokilo is a community in the Opala Territory of Tshopo District in the Democratic Republic of Congo.[1]

In the colonial era of the Belgian Congo, Lokilo was one of the areas from which the Lomami Company collected large amounts of rubber. The Mbole people of the region vividly described their view of the effect of collecting rubber with the phrase wando wo limolo, meaning "tax-caused loss of weight".[2]

References

  1. ↑ "Carte des Districts et Territoires de l'ORIENTALE" (PDF). Reliefweb. October 2002. Retrieved 2011-10-08.
  2. ↑ Osumaka Likaka (2009). Naming colonialism: history and collective memory in the Congo, 1870-1960. Univ of Wisconsin Press. p. 90. ISBN 0-299-23364-2.
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