Héctor Mediavilla / Picturetank MEH0170574

Willy Covarie, also known as the "Attacant du pointe" walks down a Bacongo street. He's one of the best known and admired Bacongo sapeurs.

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Héctor Mediavilla / Picturetank MEH0063298

The sapeur Bienvenu Mouzieto takes off his hat and checks himself in the mirror while his wife watches TV. Many Bacongo families do not have electricity at home to watch TV, Brazzaville, Congo.

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Héctor Mediavilla / Picturetank MEH0063438

Willy Covary, one of the most admired sapeurs of the Bacongo neighborhood, poses in front of his house, after taking a bath. He is about to get dressed to go out. On the right side, he is ready to show off in the city.

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Héctor Mediavilla / Picturetank MEH0170565

Madeleine, Lamame's wife, holds Lamame's dress coat in the living room of their house. This is Lamame's favourite suit, which he's going to wear for the Congo independence day celebration.

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Héctor Mediavilla / Picturetank MEH0063198

The sapeur Lamame takes a ride in a taxi to the outskirts of Brazzaville. On this occasion he is dressed in a tail coat and covers his right eye with a black patch.

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Héctor Mediavilla / Picturetank MEH0170515

The son of Sebastien Nkoulo holds the picture of his dead father at his funeral in the Sant Pierre Clavé church.

Héctor Mediavilla / Picturetank MEH0063173

The sapeur Lamame, also known as the Old Parisian, walks on the rocks of the Congo river falls which, despite their name, are only some rapids. They are supposed to be a touristic attraction. Some young naked men are taking a bath and washing their clothes in the river as usual when Lamame arrives to visit the site.

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Héctor Mediavilla / Picturetank MEH0170672

Hassan Salvador and his two friends wait to take a taxi to go to a wedding reception where they have been invited.

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Héctor Mediavilla / Picturetank MEH0170567

Hassan Salvador walks down a Mungali street with his Parisian friend Tony M'Samba and three younger friends "petits". They will attend a funeral of a relative of Tony. "Petits" like to be close to sapeurs in order to learn from them.

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Héctor Mediavilla / Picturetank MEH0063430

Severin Mouyengo, who has been a sapeur since the seventies, poses in the entrace of his family house in the Bacongo neighborhood. Sandals on the ground are from his family members. In Congo, as in other parts of Africa, people commonly, take their shoes off before entering a home. On the right side, Severin sits with his family in the dining room table under an old portrait of his father speaking on the phone.

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Héctor Mediavilla / Picturetank MEH0063192

The sapeur Severin, also known as the Japanese Ambassador, shows himself in an Avenue of the Makélékélé suburb of Brazzaville, Congo. Behind him is a tank that remains as a kind of symbol of the last civil war (1997-2001) during which there was no possibility of enjoying the Sape movement. There's Sape only when there's peace.

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Héctor Mediavilla / Picturetank MEH0063217

The sapeur Yves François Ngatsongo, also known as Yves Saint Laurent, is the president and founder of the France Libre association. He walks up the stairs of the tall building were he lives in downtown Brazzaville, Congo. This and other buildings, somewhat damaged by the combats of the last civil war (1997-2001) have been squatted mainly by Northern army-related people.

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Héctor Mediavilla / Picturetank MEH0182657

A little boy stands with his father and his brother at the Maim Bleue terrace bar. They live in Paris and have returned to Congo on hollidays. The Maim Bleue is the trendiest place in Bacongo where sapeurs like to be seen every Sunday evening. During the summer season it's very crowded because of all Congolese that live in France and return on hollidays to Congo.

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Héctor Mediavilla / Picturetank MEH0063435

The sapeur Delagrace, also known as the 'icon of beautiful colours', inside and outside of his rented room.

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Héctor Mediavilla / Picturetank MEH0170529

KVV Mouzieto, an important sapeur who lives in Paris, has organized a concert in the Matsoua Avenue to promote his first music album. The ministry of communication, Alain Akoula and many sapeurs have been invited for the event. A sapeur poses for the picture whereas the audience regard the show.

Héctor Mediavilla / Picturetank MEH0063195

The sapeur Severin, also known as the Japanese ambassador, shows a portrait of his father in the living room of the family home. It is decorated with many portraits of relatives and religious propaganda. Most Congolese are quite religious; Catholic and Christian evangelist churches are preferred among sapeurs. Brazzaville, Congo.

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Héctor Mediavilla / Picturetank MEH0170669

Some pictures of Severin Mouyengo from the seventies when he was already a sapeur. Pictures are very important since they are the only evidence of their elegance in the past.

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Héctor Mediavilla / Picturetank MEH0063203

Severin Mouyengo, who has been a sapeur since the seventies, shows some of the pictures that prove his historical involvement in the Sape movement. In the dining room of his house in Brazzaville, Congo.

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Héctor Mediavilla / Picturetank MEH0170671

The Massala group of sapeurs from Bacongo have been invited by the sapeurs of the northern districts to show off together. Now, they show off in terrace bar called Chez Aguigui. On the left, Fourga Wilfrid Gabm-Mayard (president of sapeurs from Ouenzé), in the centre, Pelagie Kiba Ngoro, wife of Yves Ngastsongo, president of the Free France association; on the right Vincent de Poure Okoundou, who likes to show off with his Chinesse motorcycle.

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Héctor Mediavilla / Picturetank MEH0063216

Severin Mouyengo, sapeur since the seventies, is about to cross Avenue Matsoua, the historical avenue of the Bacongo neighbourhood that used to be the only runway of the first Brazzaville and Congolese airport.

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Héctor Mediavilla / Picturetank MEH0037428

Sapeur Lamam gets dressed in his room to go out to show the Sape, a Sunday afternoon.

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Héctor Mediavilla / Picturetank MEH0170698

Willy Covarie also known as the "attacant du pointe" is one of the most famous sapeurs of Bacongo. He is getting ready in his humble house to go out to show off his elegance.

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Héctor Mediavilla / Picturetank MEH0063194

The sapeur Willy Covari, one of the most admired sapeurs of the Bacongo neighbourhood of Brazzaville, Congo, walks on his property with his two children.

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Héctor Mediavilla / Picturetank MEH0063218

A young relative of the sapeur Lamame helps him to put his bow tie on properly in the entrance of this room. There are many bullet holes on the wall as a result of the combats of the last civil war (1997-2001). Brazzaville, Congo.

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Héctor Mediavilla / Picturetank MEH0170769

Abboubakar Massamba looks for some papers in his living room. He's 64 year-old and one of the few sapeurs who is muslim.

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Héctor Mediavilla / Picturetank MEH0063165

Stephane Mouzieto is followed by some children when he walks in an unpaved street of the Bacongo neighborhood of Brazzaville. He imitates his uncle, the famous KVV Mouzieto, a grand sapeur who lives in Paris. He also covers his eye with an eye patch like his uncle.

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Héctor Mediavilla / Picturetank MEH0170485

The wife of Yves Ngatsongo, also known as "Yves Saint Laurent", is ready to eat in the living room of her house. Yves is a well known sapeur and the president of the France Libre (Free France) Association. She is one of the founding members and since a couple of years she also dresses in suit and can be considered a sapeusse.

Héctor Mediavilla / Picturetank MEH0182822

Ferole N'Gouabi poses in the entrance of his family house. Ferole is one of the few sapeurs that wears a Scotish kilt. He got the first one from a relative who lived in U.K. After that, he and his friends from the Picadilly group have got some more tailored in Congo. He likes to be original and different from other sapeurs.

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Héctor Mediavilla / Picturetank MEH0063214

The sapeur Bienvenu Mouzieto poses in front of his house in the Bacongo neighbourhood of Brazzaville, Congo.

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