The Zappo Zaps were a group of Songye people from the eastern Kasaï region in what today is the Democratic Republic of the Congo. They acted as allies of the Congo Free State authorities, while trading in ivory, rubber and slaves.[1]
In 1899 they were sent out by the colonial administration to collect taxes. They massacred many villagers, causing an international outcry.[2]
The ZappoZaps were a group of Songye people from the eastern Kasaï region in what today is the Democratic Republic of the Congo. They acted as allies...
name "ZappoZap", an infamous Songye tribal group once active in the Congo Free State. Nzappa zap, Brooklyn Museum Nzappa zap or Kilonda Nzappa zap or Kilonda...
and it is believed to have been common practice in their culture. The ZappoZap people of the Democratic Republic of Congo are believed to have filed...
and 90 or more of the local people killed in the Bena Kamba country by ZappoZap warriors sent to collect taxes by the Congo Free State administration...
eastern Congo. The so-called ZappoZaps (from the Songye ethnic group) were the most feared. Reportedly cannibals, the Zappo-Zaps frequently abused their official...
more personal Mankishi are usually kept by the owner and are portable. ZappoZap Petridis, Constantine. (2008). Art and power in the Central African Savanna:...
and for Australia. In the Congo Basin, there lived groups such as the ZappoZaps who hunted humans for food even when game was plentiful. The term gastronomic...
Islam. For example, a group of "Binji" speakers later referred to as "ZappoZap" were reported to have been arabised. A notable person thought to have...
practised exocannibalism include the Lendu and the Songye (especially the ZappoZaps) in Africa, the Batak and Dayak people in Asia, and the Attacotti in Europe...
known as the Congo Free State. In March 1883 Wissmann gave the name "ZappoZap" to a Songye leader known as Nsapu Nsapu who ruled over the town of Mpengie...
them. Particularly infamous were groups of Songye fighters "known as ZappoZaps after the sound of their rifles" and employed by the Free State to enforce...
escaped death. During his retreat, Le Marinel meet the chief ZappoZap near Lusambo. ZappoZap's warriors were soon to become important allies of the Belgians...
(CK). The post was a trading center, one of the locations to which the ZappoZaps brought their ivory and rubber. Early in the 1900s a residence of the...
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