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Joao l of Kongo
Nzinga-a-Nkuwu João I (né Nzinga-a-Nkuwu) was the 5th ManiKongo of the Kingdom of Kongo (Kongo: Kongo-dia-Ntotila) between 1470 and 1509. He voluntarily converted to Roman Catholicism. He was baptized on 3 May 1491 and took the Christian name of João. Soon after, ManiKongo Nzinga-a-Nkuwu João I abandoned the new faith for a number of reasons, one of them being the Roman Catholic Church's requirement of monogamy. Politically, he could not afford to abandon polygamy and embrace monogamy, a…
Kimpa Vita
(1684 – July 2, 1706) Attempted to unify the kingdom of Kongo through an African Christianity. For a short period, she was successful. Today she is referred to as being the mother of African unity,Antonianism; this movement taught that Jesus and other early Christian figures were from the Kongo Empire. Kimpa Vita mixed elements of Christianity with African religious practices. In the short period of her active time, she showed the potential of unifying the kingdom of Kongo. In 1706, she was…
Kingdom of Kongo 1390–1914
The Kingdom of Kongo was a large kingdom in the western part of central Africa. The Kingdom of Kongo was a large kingdom in the western part of central Africa. The name comes from the fact that the founders of the kingdom were KiKongo speaking people, and the spelling of Congo with a C comes from the Portuguese translation. Kingdom was founded around 1390 CE through the political marriage of Nima a Nzima, of the Mpemba Kasi, and Luqueni Luansanze, of the Mbata, which cemented the alliance…
Kingdom Of Kongo
On 02 July 1706 in Mbanza Kongo the City of Kongo Kingdom, a 22 years old young woman was burned alive with her baby for the African revolution; her name is Kimpa Vita, the mother of the African revolution. Born in 1689 near the mountain of Kibangu from father Sava and mother Nsenga after the decline of the Kongo Kingdom at the Battle of Ambwila, Kimpa Vita was a young woman and revolutionary from noble family of Kongo.
Costume of the women of the Kingdom of Kongo (Congo). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Antonio Sasso from Giulio Ferrario's Ancient and Modern Costumes of all the Peoples of the World, Florence, Italy, 1843 Stock Photo - Alamy
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