He is repeating the name of this village all the time in songs titled Racines, and he even has a video visiting it. So I guess that is where he grew up, but in the videos it seems it doesn't exist any more, and he wants to rebuild it. It seems do me as if he is talking about that Ngouabi was born in that village too. What is the truth about these things? Is this all just a legend, and that place never even existed, or it was his birthplace indeed?

I believe he is also a Ngbandi or Ngwandi like Nguesso Sassou and former Congo Kinshasa leader Mobutu. I am not sure Okuma is the place is where but it might be a place where bangbandi are present or bangwandi.

You don’t have Ngabandi’s in Congo Brazzaville and Ngbandi’s are not Bantou people.. Ngandi’s people are close/brothers to people living in the Central African Republic. Kingbandi is almost the same like Sango which is spoken in the Central African Republic.

Sassou Nguesso is a Mbochi like Rogatien.

He is repeating the name of this village all the time in songs titled Racines, and he even has a video visiting it. So I guess that is where he grew up, but in the videos it seems it doesn't exist any more, and he wants to rebuild it. It seems do me as if he is talking about that Ngouabi was born in that village too. What is the truth about these things? Is this all just a legend, and that place never even existed, or it was his birthplace indeed?

Marien Ngouabi was Born in Ombele. But it could be possible the village of his ancestors or family is Okuma or that the village being next to it. I remember Tresor Mopao saying when he was in conflict with Roga, that Roga often says that he hates Sassou’s family because they are behind the death of Marien Ngouabi since that he’s related to Ngouabi, in order to create problems for Roga.

I don’t believe that Rogatien was born in Okuma. But maybe his parents. It’s like Bakongo people born and raised in Kinshasa saying my village is Nsona Nkulu or Boko, because of their family having their roots there.

Talking about villages. Many villages are not on google maps. I tried to luck the village of my grandfather but I couldn’t find it. Only when I went once to Congo to make a carte d’electeur and the guy seeing the village on his computer, since that CENI was settled there for the elections.

I managed to trace it back, this is that video where he is talking about these things. Could you summarize what he is saying?

18 March 1977 was the date that Marien Ngouabi got assasinated.

In this video Roga said that it’s the village of Ngouabi’s mother side. Okuma also being his village. He also said that they would build 32 houses to make the village live again. He showed a tree that exist for ages since his ancestors. I could not understand everything because they started to talk Mboshi at some point.

Thanks Mfumu! Do you know the mushrooms they are showing at 29:00? Pio, that is the word they are repeating, I wonder if that refers to it's name?

Roga Roga said that it the mushrooms are "Bio". With Bio he wanted to say biological. Because many mushrooms and other vegetables are full with chemicals, like the way he sung in Racines 2 about fish they are eating.