Bafwabaka
Bafwabaka is a place in the eastern part of Tshopo in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. There is/was a Catholic convent. In the 1964 civil war, all 46 nuns were kidnapped by Simba rebels and taken to Wamba, and later to Isiro where some of them were killed, among them Marie-Clémentine Anuarite Nengapeta.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Bafwabaka
- Type: Locality
- Description: place in Tshopo, Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Category: human settlement
- Location: Bafwasende, Tshopo, DR Congo, Central Africa, Africa
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- Dutch: “Bafwabaka”
- Italian: “Bafwabaka”
- Lingala: “Bafwabaka”
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