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Take a monkey, disembowel it, and gently smoke it over a fire for two days. Once blackened sufficiently it can be served as a main dish or stewed in a broth.
"It is very tasty with a tomato and garlic sauce, over a bed of rice," says monkey dealer Marie-Jan at the meat and fish section of Kinshasa's central open air market.
On the table in front of her, five monkey corpses stare back, their faces permanently contorted and stiffened by days of charcoal cooking.
Shoppers bustle over slime and fish guts mashed into the tile flooring while a young, bound crocodile tries to make a break for it under the tortoise shelf.
Severed goat heads stare up vacuously from a table and two men haggle over the price of a bucket of squirming grubs.
Giant snail and various species of antelope are other delicacies shipped down the Congo river to the Congolese capital Kinshasa, once hailed as the Paris of Africa.
PEACE MAY BOOST BUSHMEAT TRADE
As the Democratic Republic of Congo's five-year civil war winds down -- and traffic on the river reopens on long stretches that were closed during the conflict -- trade in bushmeat is set to increase
Take a monkey, disembowel it, and gently smoke it over a fire for two days. Once blackened sufficiently it can be served as a main dish or stewed in a broth.
"It is very tasty with a tomato and garlic sauce, over a bed of rice," says monkey dealer Marie-Jan at the meat and fish section of Kinshasa's central open air market.
On the table in front of her, five monkey corpses stare back, their faces permanently contorted and stiffened by days of charcoal cooking.
Shoppers bustle over slime and fish guts mashed into the tile flooring while a young, bound crocodile tries to make a break for it under the tortoise shelf.
Severed goat heads stare up vacuously from a table and two men haggle over the price of a bucket of squirming grubs.
Giant snail and various species of antelope are other delicacies shipped down the Congo river to the Congolese capital Kinshasa, once hailed as the Paris of Africa.
PEACE MAY BOOST BUSHMEAT TRADE
As the Democratic Republic of Congo's five-year civil war winds down -- and traffic on the river reopens on long stretches that were closed during the conflict -- trade in bushmeat is set to increase