Songye shields
The Songye people are a Bantu ethnic group from the central Democratic Republic of the Congo. Migrating from the Sheba area to the southern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo, on the banks of the Lualaba River, the Songye settled in the savannah and forested plateau. The Songye follow a patriarchal society and are economically sustained by farming. A central chief known as Yakitenge governs…