Lokandu

Lokandu
Lokandu
Coordinates: 2°31′54″S 25°45′41″E / 2.53161°S 25.761395°E / -2.53161; 25.761395Coordinates: 2°31′54″S 25°45′41″E / 2.53161°S 25.761395°E / -2.53161; 25.761395
Country Democratic Republic of the Congo
Province Maniema
Territory Kailo
National language Swahili
The black line indicates Stanley's route.

Lokandu is a community in Maniema Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, on the Lualaba River downstream from Kindu.

Henry Morton Stanley refers to it as "the frontier village of Manyema, which is called Riba-Riba."[1]:60

The town was formerly called Riba Riba, when it was burned down in 1893 by a force led by Louis Napoléon Chaltin striking overland from Bena-Kamba. After being rebuilt, it took its present name.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Stanley, H.M., 1899, Through the Dark Continent, Vol. Two, London: G. Newnes, ISBN 0486256685
  2. ↑ Ndaywel è Nziem, Isidore (1998). Histoire generale du Congo. De Boeck Supérieur. p. 299. ISBN 2-8011-1174-0.
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