The Lubefu River is a tributary of the Sankuru River, which in turn is a tributary of the Kasai River in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
One of the first Europeans to visit the river was Alexandre Delcommune in 1887 during an epic exploration of navigable rivers in the Congo Basin.[1]
An account of a journey through the Kasai River region in 1908 said there were crocodiles in the river but due to the rapid current there were no hippopotami except where the river joins the Sankuru. The river is fast, narrow and winding, and in places the overhanging trees form a tunnel. From Bena Dibele, a town on the Sankuru just below the point where it is joined by the Lubefu to the government station of Lubefu is about 100 miles (160 km). However, it took 19 days for a whaleboat with experienced paddlers to cover this distance.[2]
The Belgian colonial authorities forced the peasants of the area to grow cotton against their will. Direct refusal to plant cotton would have been suicidal given the brutal techniques of the colonialists. One passive resistance technique was to boil the cotton seeds before planting them, so they would not germinate. In 1925 people living in the southern plains of the Lubefu explained to a state agronomist that "the soil is burning the cotton seeds".[3]
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the LubefuRiver about 100 miles (160 km) upstream from Bena Dibele, a town on the Sankuru just below the point where it is joined by the Lubefu. X. Blaes...
province. The major geographical features are Sankuru River, Lomami River, LubefuRiver and Lukenie River. There are typically three natural environments in...
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the south on the right bank of the Sankuru River just below the point where it is joined by the LubefuRiver, a more reliable route. Some of the main logging...
Dibele is on the right bank of the Sankuru River just below the point where it is joined by the LubefuRiver. In the early 20th century Bena Dibele was...
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végétaux du Haut Kasai (1894) Compagnie Anversoise des Plantations de la Lubefu (1897) Société de la Djuma et La Kasaienne (1897) La Loanje (1898) Société...
He then explored the Kasai, the Fimi, the Sankuru, Lake Leopold II, the Lubefu, the Kwango and the Kwilu. He went as far up the Congo as Stanley Falls...
Kinshasa. Lumumbaville sits between the territories of Katako-Kombe and Lubefu stretching from the town of Wembo-Nyama to close by the town of Tshumbe...
District District Kasai-Oriental Sankuru Katako-Kombe, Kole, Lodja, Lomela, Lubefu, Lusambo Sud-Ubangi District District Équateur Sud-Ubangi Budjala, Gemena...
his return to Europe to assist in exploration of the Kasaï, Sankuru and Lubefu. In late July 1889 Le Marinel returned to Boma to start his second term...
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