Kingdom 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…

(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…

The throne of the king of Kongo, from Olfert Dapper, Naukeurige Beschrijvinge der Afrikaensche Gewesten (Amsterdam, 1668).

King Afonso I of Kongo

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…

Intern Gabriel Kilongo speaks with author and musicologist Ned Sublette about the musical traditions of historic Kongo and its corresponding modern-day states.

From "Kongo Graphic Writing and Other Narratives of the Sign" by Bárbaro Martínez-Ruiz

The African kingdom of Axum (also Aksum) was located on the northern edge of the highland zone of the Red Sea coast, just above the horn of Africa. It was founded in the 1st century CE, flourished from...

The Kongo Kingdom

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.

The Kingdom of Kongo lies on the west coast of central Africa in modern-day Congo and Angola. Click to access our history teaching resources and save prep time!

Download this stock image: 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. - 2A82J1W from Alamy's library of millions of high resolution stock photos, illustrations and vectors.

17th century painting of the dutch painter Albert Eckhout showing the nobleman Don Miguel de Castro from the Kingdom of Kongo during a commercial trip to the portuguese colony of Brazil.

BANZA KONGO , Capital of the Kingdom of Kongo before colonialism