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    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...
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    name "Zappo Zap", an infamous Songye tribal group once active in the Congo Free State. Nzappa zap, Brooklyn Museum Nzappa zap or Kilonda Nzappa zap or Kilonda...
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    and it is believed to have been common practice in their culture. The Zappo Zap people of the Democratic Republic of Congo are believed to have filed...
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  • State, including the Zappo Zap. The African-american missionary William Henry Sheppard wrote an first-hand account of a Zappo Zap attack on a number of...
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    eastern Congo. The so-called Zappo Zaps (from the Songye ethnic group) were the most feared. Reportedly cannibals, the Zappo-Zaps frequently abused their official...
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    known as the Congo Free State. In March 1883 Wissmann gave the name "Zappo Zap" to a Songye leader known as Nsapu Nsapu who ruled over the town of Mpengie...
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    and 90 or more of the local people killed in the Bena Kamba country by Zappo Zap warriors sent to collect taxes by the Congo Free State administration...
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    Islam. For example, a group of "Binji" speakers later referred to as "Zappo Zap" were reported to have been arabised. A notable person thought to have...
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    exocannibalism include the Azande, the Lendu, and the Songye (especially the Zappo Zaps) in Central Africa, the Batak and Dayak people in Asia, and the Attacotti...
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  • more personal Mankishi are usually kept by the owner and are portable. Zappo Zap Petridis, Constantine. (2008). Art and power in the Central African Savanna:...
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    and for Australia. In the Congo Basin, there lived groups such as the Zappo Zaps and the Bankutu who hunted humans for food even when game was plentiful...
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  • missionary William Henry Sheppard on an 1899 massacre of over 80 people by Zappo Zaps sent to collect taxes. Leopold claims that his critics only speak of what...
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  • Kamba country by Congo Free State troops. The raid had been undertaken by Zappo Zap warriors, who had then engaged in cannibalism. It had been ordered because...
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    them. Particularly infamous were groups of Songye fighters "known as Zappo Zaps after the sound of their rifles" and employed by the Free State to enforce...
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    escaped death. During his retreat, Le Marinel meet the chief Zappo Zap near Lusambo. Zappo Zap's warriors were soon to become important allies of the Belgians...
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  • The Mandrake Project BMG BryhM (Bruce Hornsby and yMusic) Deep Sea Vents Zappo Productions, Thirty Tigers Caravan Palace Gangbusters Melody Club David...
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  • (CK). The post was a trading center, one of the locations to which the Zappo Zaps brought their ivory and rubber. Early in the 1900s a residence of the...
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