They crossed this river upstream from the point where the Lomami joins the Congo, near present day Basoko, and then moved south to their present location.
Soko, or So (also Eso, Gesogo, Heso, Soa) is a language spoken, 1971, by about 6,000 people in the Orientale Province, north of Basoko in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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Carrington moved to Yalemba in 1951, where he found two drum languages corresponding to the Heso language of the Basoko people and the Topoke language of the Baonga villagers on the other side of the Congo.