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CERCLE CULTUREL VIRA
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People without knowledge of their culture are like “a tree without roots,” easily shaken and disconnected from purpose and identity
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Uvira Territory "Territoire d'Uvira"
Fuerat aestu carentem habentia spectent tonitrua mutastis locavit liberioris inistra possedit.
Traditional Vira Chief
Photo Above: Portrait of Makumika, the traditional Vira chief who was locally exiled by the Belgian authorities in Uvira "territoire" (Photo Biebuyck, 1950) with the traditional sign of his supreme authority. See DB bibliography. In Rugongo village, in the presence of chief Makumika the royal initiators (Nakabaka ect.)
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The Bavira (often called the Vira) are a Bantu-speaking people who form one of the main ethnic groups of the Uvira area in South Kivu, on the northeastern shore of Lake Tanganyika in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
Colonial and postcolonial period
* Under Belgian colonial rule, the Bavira chiefdom became one of the key customary units in Uvira Territory, as authorities tied ethnicity to fixed territories and chiefs; this reshaped older, more flexible political arrangements.
* In the postcolonial era and during the Congo wars, the Uvira area…
