Introduction: cross-disciplinary approaches to Kongo history / Koen Bostoen and Inge Brinkman -- Part I. The Origins and Dynamics of the Kongo Kingdom -- The origins of Kongo: a revised vision / John ...

Part I. Kongo in Africa. 1. The culture of Mbanza Kongo / Linda Heywood and John Thornton. Focus 1. King Pedro VII of Kongo (r. 1923-55) ; 2. By the sword and the cross : power and faith in the arts ...

Striking connections between the art and culture of the Kongo Kingdom of western Central Africa and African-American art and culture will be explored in "Kongo Across the Waters," an exhibit that also ...

Long before there was a Congo Square — indeed, long before there was even a New Orleans — there was a Kingdom of Kongo. Covering an expanse of Central Africa corresponding to the modern day countries ...

The Kongo kingdom ruled a swath of central Africa for 500 years. The Kongo king and his nobles surrounded themselves with finely wrought artistic objects, and when Portuguese explorers arrived in 1483 ...

Mbanza Kongo — The Kongo Kingdom Kings Museum, located in Mbanza Kongo City, northern Zaire Province, last Thursday was deemed a pillar in the cultural promotion of the country and the region that a ...

The United Nations has expressed concerns over the deadly awakening of a separatist religious sect known as Bundu Dia Kongo (BDK) in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Far from being a new group, ...