Bena Makima
place in Kasai-Occidental, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Bena Makima is a community in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is on the right bank of the Kasai River, a few kilometers downstream from the point where the Lulua River enters the Kasai.
It is at the highest navigable point on the Kasai in the dry season.
Bena Makima was situated within the territory of the Kuba Kingdom. It was a post of the Compagnie du Kasai (CK).
The post was a trading center, one of the locations to which the Zappo Zaps brought their ivory and rubber.
Early in the 1900s a residence of the Catholic Prefecture Apostolic of Upper Kassai was established at Bena Makima.
The Presbyterian missionaries led by William Morrison had asked to be allowed to establish a mission there, but were refused.
The company began a rubber plantation at Bena Makima in October 1904. In a unique arrangement, four missionaries of the order of Scheut fathers took charge of planting rubber and of gathering wild rubber in exchange for having their goods transported at no charge on the steamer from Kinshasa to Luebo.
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