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TO GO WITH STORY BY HABIBOU BANGRE Members of the "Leopard" group, including the group's president Chancelier (2nd L), part of the social movement known as La Sape (an abbreviation of "Societe des Ambianceurs et des Personnes Elegantes" or The Society for the Advancement of Elegant People), pose in Kinshasa on March 16, 2014. La Sape, 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 STORY BY HABIBOU BANGRE Members of the "Leopard" group, including the group's president Chancelier (2nd L), part of the social movement known as La Sape (an abbreviation of "Societe des Ambianceurs et des Personnes Elegantes" or The Society for the Advancement of Elegant People), pose in Kinshasa on March 16, 2014. La Sape, 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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