Q:Question: "__ speak Kikongo." Context: "Bantu-speaking peoples who founded tribes during the Bantu expansions largely displaced and absorbed the earliest inhabitants of the region, the Pygmy people, about 1500 BC. The Bakongo, a Bantu ethnic group that also occupied parts of present-day Angola, Gabon, and Democratic Republic of the Congo, formed the basis for ethnic affinities and rivalries among those countries. Several Bantu kingdomsnotably those of the Kongo, the Loango, and the Tekebuilt trade links leading into the Congo River basin." Answer:
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The Bakongo