Congolese were most likely sold in Cabinda in modern-day Angola and were then imported to places such as Louisiana and South Carolina.
Immigrants from the DRC speak Lingala, Swahili, Kikongo, Bembe, and Tshiluba.
[8] However, recent immigrants are less likely to speak English than the better-educated Congolese migrants before them, and thus, have more difficulty adjusting to daily living in the U.S.
Thus, many educated Congolese have been forced to work in unskilled and low-paying jobs such as dishwashing and taxi cab driving.
[2] A significant number of Congolese Americans reside in the Charlotte and Raleigh areas of North Carolina,[14] in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex in Texas (mainly in Arlington, Bedford, Dallas, Euless, Grand Prairie, Hurst, and Irving);[8] in the Cleveland and Columbus areas of Ohio; and in Iowa, where the Congolese community of DRC this growing due to sending refugees (although quantitatively reduced in the last years.
[11] There is a growing Congolese refugee population in Memphis, Tennessee, and other cities in the state.
[20] In Bowling Green, Kentucky, Congolese refugees already compose a sizable proportion of the city.