 Most of the local population belongs to the Ndaka people of the Mambasa Territory or the Budu people of the Wamba Territory.Colonial mines produced gold in this area from the 1920s until 1958.As of 2011 Kilo Goldmines, a Canadian company, was active in a joint venture with Somituri sprl, a local company, in exploiting properties in the Mambasa and Wamba territories near the village of Nia Nia.