5 dog-eating African communities where you are welcome with the delicacy

Democratic Republic of Congo

The Goma tribe are from the Democratic Republic of Congo and reside in the North-Kivu province.

The Goma people of the DRC have been forced to eat dog meat due to the high costs of food. The North and South Kivu area have long been entrenched in civil wars due to the control of resources.

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The Goma once regarded dog meat as a taboo and abhorred the thought of consuming it.