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TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY HABIBOU BANGRE A Sapeur, a member of "La Sape" movement, the acronym for "Societe des Ambianceurs et des Personnes Elegantes" (The Society for the Advancement of Elegant People), takes part in a tribute to the founder of the movement Stervos Niarcos Ngashie, on February 10, 2014 at the Gombe cemetery in Kinshasa. The Sape movement, born in the 1960s in Congo, aims at dressing flamboyantly. Stervos Niarcos Ngashie, who died in 1995, was known as the leader of the La Sape movement and the founder of the "Kitendi" religion, which means clothing in local Lingala language. AFP PHOTO / JUNIOR D. KANNAH (Photo credit should read Junior D. Kannah/AFP/Getty Images)

TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY HABIBOU BANGRE A Sapeur, a member of "La Sape" movement, the acronym for "Societe des Ambianceurs et des Personnes Elegantes" (The Society for the Advancement of Elegant People), takes part in a tribute to the founder of the movement Stervos Niarcos Ngashie, on February 10, 2014 at the Gombe cemetery in Kinshasa. The Sape movement, born in the 1960s in Congo, aims at dressing flamboyantly. Stervos Niarcos Ngashie, who died in 1995, was known as the leader of the La Sape movement and the founder of the "Kitendi" religion, which means clothing in local Lingala language. AFP PHOTO / JUNIOR D. KANNAH (Photo credit should read Junior D. Kannah/AFP/Getty Images)
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