ABSTRACT
T he Suku are a Bantu-speaking people living in a region of rolling savanna in South-western Congo (formerly the Belgian Congo) between the upper stretches of the Bakali and Kwenge rivers. 46 Their territory measures roughly fifty by one hundred miles, with a population of about eighty thousand. Population density is, thus, relatively low—some fourteen or fifteen persons per square mile. Suku subsistence is derived primarily from the cultivation of manioc and from hunting and fishing.
