Kivu-festival. No’s 325-326.

The Kivu-Festival was organized as a trade fair and meant to make propaganda for the tourism. The images on the stamps are from the Kivu Lake. A lake on the border of Congo (formerly Zaire) and Rwanda north of Lake Tanganyika. It is situated at an altitude of 1,461 m (4,790 ft) and is Africa's highest lake. Beneath the lake lie vast reserves of methane gas, which have not been exploited. Lake Kivu is a tourist center.

Philatelic material.

Special first day issue for the “exposition philatelique”

Cancelled: Costermansville 2-1-53 (1953)

Size: 16.2 x 11.2 cm