African scam — travel east to take in the French (9)

'african' is the definition.
(Congolese is an example)

'scam travel east to take in the french' is the wordplay.
'scam' becomes 'con' (I've seen this before).
'travel' becomes 'go' ('go' can be a synonym of 'travel'**).
'east' becomes 'e' ('E' can be a synonym of 'east').
'to take in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'the french' becomes 'les' (les is the in french).
'go'+'e'='goe'
'goe' going around 'les' is 'golese'.
'con'+'golese'='CONGOLESE'