According to Nicolas-Patience Basabose, Director of Publication of Le Congo Hebdo (Congo Weekly), who is based in South Africa, the diaspora is still strongly connected to their homeland : 
Kwa mujibu wa Nicolas-Patience Basabose, Mkurugenzi wa Chapisho la Le Congo Hebdo (Congo Weeklu), anayeishi Afrika Kusini, raia hao waishio nje ya nchi bado wana uhusiano imara na wenzao waishio nyumbani :