French colonial influence on the Flamboyant Sapeurs: a sub-cultural Phenomenon.

The rebirth of the Congo after years of civil conflict is perhaps best marked by the dapper dandies of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Republic of the Congo (ROC) known in French as la sapeur or if female la sapeuse. Years of civil war and economic oblivion have left a nation with fractured identities and in la Sape there is some rescue a…