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Conrad describes it as a twisting snake with its head in the Atlantic Ocean and its tail buried deep in Africa's heart.
To Europeans, it was a natural route to transport slaves, ivory, rubber, minerals, the commodities upon which modern day brussels and antwerp are built.
For the Congolese, both before and after the Belgians, it provided more basic things.
To cook with, to drink.
Also fishing. Since long before the expeditions of Dr. Livingston and Henry Morton Stanley, the Wakini tribe has been fishing the river in a unique fashion.