The country where Orchestre Stukas was based is in what part of Africa?
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Orchestre Stukas The Orchestre Stukas (also referred to as the Stukas Boys, the Stukas or the Stukas of Zaire) was a congolese soukous band of the 1970s. It was based in Kinshasa, Zaire (now DR Congo). At the apex of their popularity, the Stukas were led by singer and showman Gaby Lita Bembo.
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Zaire Zaire ( ), officially the Republic of Zaire (French: "République du Zaïre" ; ] ) was the name for the Democratic Republic of the Congo that existed between 1971 and 1997 in Central Africa. The country was a one-party state and dictatorship, run by Mobutu Sese Seko and his ruling Popular Movement of the Revolution party. Zaire was established following Mobutu's seizure of power in a military coup in 1965, following five years of political upheaval following independence known as the Congo Crisis. Zaire had a strongly centralist constitution and foreign assets were nationalized. The period is sometimes referred to as the Second Congolese Republic.
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Djibouti Djibouti ( ; Arabic: جيبوتي‎ ‎ "Jībūtī ", French: "Djibouti" , Somali: "Jabuuti" , Afar: "Gabuuti" ), officially the Republic of Djibouti, is a country located in the Horn of Africa. It is bordered by Eritrea in the north, Ethiopia in the west and south, and Somalia in the southeast. The remainder of the border is formed by the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden at the east. Djibouti occupies a total area of just 8958 sqmi .
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Venda Venda ( ) was a Bantustan in northern South Africa, close to the South African border with Zimbabwe to the north, while to the south and east, it shared a long border with another black homeland, Gazankulu. It is now part of the Limpopo province. Venda was founded as a homeland by the South African government for the Venda people, speakers of the Venda language. The United Nations and international community refused to recognize Venda (or any other Bantustan) as an independent state.
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Ethnic groups in Cameroon Cameroon has an extremely heterogeneous population, consisting of approximately 250 ethnic groups. Cameroon Highlanders constitute the plurality at 38 percent of the total population. They include the Bamileke and the Bamoun. The coastal tropical forest peoples, including the Bassa, Douala, and many smaller entities account for about 12 percent of the population. In the southern tropical forest, ethnic groups include the Ewondo, Bulu, and Fang (all Beti subgroups), and the Maka and Pygmies (officially called Bakas). They account for about 18 percent of the population. The Fulani (Fula: "Fulɓe" ; French: "Peul "or" Peuhl" ) account for about 14 percent of the population and the Kirdi account for about 18 percent.
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Congo Free State The Congo Free State (French: "État indépendant du Congo" , "Independent State of the Congo", Dutch: "Kongo-Vrijstaat" ) was a large state in Central Africa from 1885 to 1908, which was in personal union with the Kingdom of Belgium under Leopold II. Leopold was able to procure the region by convincing the European community that he was involved in humanitarian and philanthropic work and would not tax trade. Via the International Association of the Congo he was able to lay claim to most of the Congo basin. On May 29, 1885, the king named his new colony the Congo Free State. The state would eventually include an area now held by the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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Zaïre. Revue Congolaise—Congoleesch Tijdschrift Zaïre. Revue Congolaise—Congoleesch Tijdschrift (French and Dutch; in English: "Zaire. Congolese Review") was a Belgian academic journal devoted to African studies. In particular, it focused on the region of the Belgian colonial empire (modern-day D.R. Congo, Rwanda and Burundi).
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Geography of Botswana Botswana is a landlocked country located in Southern Africa, north of South Africa. Botswana occupies an area of 581730 km2 , of which 566730 km2 are land. Botswana has land boundaries of combined length 4347.15 km , of which the constituent boundaries are shared with Namibia, for 1544 km ; South Africa 1969 km ; Zimbabwe, 834 km and Zambia, 0.15 km . Much of the population of Botswana is concentrated in the eastern part of the country.
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Het Brabants Orkest Het Brabants Orkest (literal translation, The Brabant Orchestra, also known as "The Europa Orchestra") was a Dutch symphony orchestra, based in the province of North Brabant. Its principal concert venue was the Muziekgebouw Frits Philips in Eindhoven. The orchestra also gave concerts at the "Theater aan de Parade" in 's-Hertogenbosch, the "Concertzaal" (Concert Hall) in Tilburg, and the Chassé Theatre in Breda.
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Sahrawi people The Sahrawi people (Arabic: صحراويون‎ ‎ "ṣaḥrāwīyūn "; Berber: ⵉⵙⴻⵃⵔⴰⵡⵉⵢⴻⵏ "Iseḥrawiyen "; Moroccan Arabic: صحراوة "Ṣeḥrawa" ; Spanish: "Saharaui" ) are the people living in the western part of the Sahara desert which includes Western Sahara (claimed by the Polisario and mostly controlled by Morocco), other parts of southern Morocco not claimed by the Polisario, most of Mauritania, and the extreme southwest of Algeria.
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Cameroon Cameroon ( ; French: "Cameroun" ), officially the Republic of Cameroon (French: "République du Cameroun" ), is a country in Central Africa. It is bordered by Nigeria to the west; Chad to the northeast; the Central African Republic to the east; and Equatorial Guinea, Gabon and the Republic of the Congo to the south. Cameroon's coastline lies on the Bight of Biafra, part of the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean.
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Kingdom of Burundi The Kingdom of Burundi (French: "Royaume du Burundi" ) or Kingdom of Urundi ("Royaume d'Urundi") was a polity ruled by a traditional monarch in modern-day Republic of Burundi in the Great Lakes region of East Africa. The kingdom, majority ethnic Hutu, was ruled by a monarch from the Tutsi ethnic group with the title of "mwami". Created in the 17th century, the kingdom was preserved under European colonial rule in the late 19th and early 20th century and was an independent state between 1962 and 1966.
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Abidjan Abidjan (] ) is the economic capital of Côte d'Ivoire and is one of the most populous French-speaking cities in Africa. According to the 2014 Côte d'Ivoire census, Abidjan's population was 4.7 million, which is 20 percent of the overall population of the country, and this also makes it the 4th most populous city proper in Africa, after Lagos, Cairo and Kinshasa. Considered the cultural crossroads of Africa, Abidjan is characterised by a high level of industrialisation and urbanisation.
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Republic of the Congo (Léopoldville) The Republic of the Congo (French: "République du Congo" ) was a sovereign state in Central Africa that was created with the independence of the Belgian Congo in 1960. From 1960 to 1966, the country was often known as Congo-Léopoldville (after its capital) in order to distinguish it from its north-western neighbour, also called the Republic of the Congo or Congo-Brazzaville. With the renaming of Léopoldville as Kinshasa on 1 June 1966, it was known as Congo-Kinshasa until 1971.
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Jean Serge Essous Jean Serge Essous (born 1935 Brazzaville - died November 25, 2009 in Brazzaville ) was a Congolese saxophonist, clarinetist, and cofounder of the Afrika Team in Paris, France, the band Bantous de la Capital in Brazzaville, Congo, OK Jazz, and Orchestre Rock a Mambo.
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White Angolans White Angolans or Angolans of European descent are Angolan people whose ancestry lies within the continent of Europe, most notably Portugal. It also includes a significant population of White Brazilians with European Ancestry; including are Eastern Europeans, including Russians, Ukrainians, and Poles, who settled Angola when the country was a communist republic. For a long time a significant community of Afrikaners lived in southern Angola, but most left in and after 1975.
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Geography of Burkina Faso Burkina Faso (formerly Upper Volta) is a landlocked Sahel country that shares borders with six nations. It lies between the Sahara desert and the Gulf of Guinea, south of the loop of the Niger River, mostly between latitudes 9° and 15°N (a small area is north of 15°), and longitudes 6°W and 3°E. The land is green in the south, with forests and fruit trees, and desert in the north. Most of central Burkina Faso lies on a savanna plateau, 198 - above sea level, with fields, brush, and scattered trees. Burkina Faso's game preserves—the most important of which are Arly, Nazinga, and W National Park—contain lions, elephants, hippopotamus, monkeys, common warthogs, and antelopes. Previously the endangered painted hunting dog, "Lycaon pictus" occurred in Burkina Faso, but, although the last sightings were made in Arli National Park, the species is considered extirpated from Burkina Faso. Tourism is not well developed.
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Afrique verte Afrique verte ("Green Africa") is a French NGO engaged in the Sahel region of Africa, specifically Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso. Its objective is to ensure food security in the region, and on a larger scale, sustainable development. Its activities include training for better marketing of agriculture related goods, allowing a better exchange between zones of too much and too little food.
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Afro-Bolivian Afro-Bolivians are Bolivian people of Sub-Saharan African heritage, and therefore the descriptive "Afro-Bolivian" may refer to historical or cultural elements in Bolivia thought to emanate from their community. It can also refer to the combining of African and other cultural elements found in Bolivian society such as religion, music, language, the arts, and class culture. The Afro-Bolivians are recognized as one of the constituent ethnic groups of Bolivia by the country's government, and are ceremonially led by a king who traces his descent back to a line of monarchs that reigned in Africa during the medieval period.
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Sts. Peter and Paul Cathedral, Lubumbashi The Sts. Peter and Paul Cathedral (French: "Cathédrale Saints Pierre et Paul de Lubumbashi" ) or simply Cathedral of Lubumbashi, is the name given to a religious building belonging to the Catholic Church and is located between the Kapenda and Kasa Vubu avenues of the city of Lubumbashi in southern part of African country of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, specifically in High Katanga province. Nearby is the Convent of St. Peter and St. Paul and several provincial government buildings.
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Afro-Belgian Afro Belgians (French: "Afrobelges" ; Dutch: "Afrobelgen" ); German: "Afrobelgier" ) or Black Belgians are defined as Belgian citizens and members of the Black African community and diaspora in Belgium.
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Sotho language Sotho (Sesotho; also known as Southern Sotho, or Southern "Sesotho") is a Southern Bantu language of the Sotho-Tswana (S.30) group, spoken primarily in South Africa, where it is one of the 11 official languages, and in Lesotho, where it is the national language.