DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO

ERDAL ERSOYM.ORHUN SAHIN

• Seperated families by external powers (colonial powers)

• Tribal systems

• Linguistic groups• 52 millions of people

• Temporary residence• Huge migrations take

place (due to wars)

• Migrations to cities to make a living

FAMILY• Male leadership• In the past, single women in

the Congo belonged to their fathers and, upon marriage, their ownership would be transferred to the husband.

• Gifts of the man’s fathersuch as knives, food, or slaves to the new wife's father, in exchange for his loss of precious labor and kinship.

• Many wives in rural areas

• Having many children who survive for economic reasons.

• Getting married to rich men

• Women for day-to-day survival tasks

• Men for hunting

• Dependent on farming

• Women bread-winners

• More male in education than female

• Extreme respect for elders (kinship)

• Methods of solving problems by traditional practise• Ebola virus

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