Meet Kimwabi traditional fishermen in DRC who live on streets paved with shells
10 March 2022 |
5:51 am
Stephane Nzuzi Ndeka slipped into the coffee-coloured water and emerged, around 30 seconds later, gasping for breath with a fistful of "bibwati", clams that grow in the maze of waterways that make up Democratic Republic of Congo's mangrove forest.
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