Kusu

The Kusu have been influenced by the many villages that like them live on the banks of the river Lualaba, Luba, Hemba, Songyé, etc. Although ethnically reduced, the Kusu they are widely distributed throughout the territory, forming their social structure, depending on the area and the influence received from neighbours, clans or castes. The clans have a chief, the wembe, in turn divided into villages headed by a village chief, the mwamkan, who assists the clan chief, and the villages formed by families headed by the bankumi, head of the family. His artistic objects have received a strong influence from his neighbors.