They mainly live on the south bank of the Congo River between Kisangani and Isangi.
[1] The Kele were known for their drum language, described by the English missionary John F. Carrington, who spent his life in Africa.
His findings were published in his 1949 book The Talking Drums of Africa.
The Kele people used drum language for rapid communication between villages.
Carrington studied the drum language at a time when it was already falling out of use, and today it is extinct.