Zaire #1615-20 Native Handicrafts - 2002 Complete Mint Set of 6

In 1997 a military coup overthrew the brutal dictatorship of Joseph Mobutu, restoring democracy to the troubled nation and changing the country’s name back to the Democratic Republic of the Congo. One of the first issues of the restored democracy is this set picturing handicrafts representing some of the hundreds of ethnic groups and tribes making up the nation. (Zaire #1615-20)