RESILIENCE DU RITE BOSOSO FACE A L’ACCULTURATION DU PEUPLE BOYELA

Authors: Lucien Okolewae Baraka & Jean Paul Mulongo Mfuende

ABSTRACT

This article focuses on the Bososo rite, the most practiced by the Boyela people of the Tshuapa Sector in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Its role in regulating social relations within this rural administrative entity remains active and thus constitutes the bastion that resists any form of acculturation. It brings together two components: judicial and administrative, thus imitating the forms of organization of the legal and administrative structures of the national jurisdiction. However, its current practical deployment leads to a high visibility of the predatory and extremist nature of the animators of the Boyela customary structures who use it for food purposes only. The Boyela customary norms need to be revisited and the customary structures to be really taken care of by the Congolese State. We believe that under these conditions, the customary Boyela extremism crystallized today by the Bososo rite will turn its back on the path of radicalization to be an important partner of the State for the socio-economic development of the Tshuapa Sector.

Keywords: Resilience, Acculturation, Customary Rite, Hybridity, Positive Law

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