Nunu

The Nunu are a river people of the middle Congo, whose fishing communities inhabit a world of channels, lakes and seasonally flooded forest. Fishing was combined with other kinds of production, and access to ponds and fishing grounds depended on relationships among households and their leaders. During the eighteenth century, Bobangi traders began carrying captives down the river towards routes to the Loango coast. By the early nineteenth century they had established trading settlements along the Congo, including Bolobo, where they lived alongside Nunu fishermen.