Lele people

The Lele (or Leele), also known as Bashilele or Usilele, are a Bantu ethnic group closely related to the Kuba people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.Encyclopedia of African Peoples (Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago and London, 2000), s.v. Lele (p. 125). They traditionally live in the Kasai River region,Mary Douglas, The Lele of the Kasai (1963), ch. 1. but since the 1950s many have migrated to Kinshasa.Mary Douglas, "Sorcery Accusations Unleashed: The Lele Revisited", in Implicit Meanings (2nd ed., Routledge, 1999), pp. 78-80. There are currently about 30,000 Lele, of whom 26,000 speak the Lele language.

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