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Shadowing the newsreader

Listen to the newsreader read out each line and then practise saying it. Record your own voice line by line and submit your voiceover.

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It's Sapper Day in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

It's a special day for these people.

They are sapeurs.

They wear special clothes.

The name of the style is 'La Sape'.

La Sape fashion started with West African colonial workers.

They moved to the Congo with this style.

Rich people in the Congo started dressing like them.

They didn't want to look like poor people.

Young people wore it too.

But they made some changes.

Sapeurs don't have a lot of money.

Some of them don't have jobs.

But, their fashion is very important to them.

La Sape is important in the Republic of the Congo and the DRC.

The Republic of the Congo's president likes La Sape.

He says it's important.

It's history and culture.

But in the DRC it's not the same.

The sapeurs there want help.

Six Lokoto says La Sape is art too.

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