Fi- nally, I decided to review the materials of the study for a second edition, which we are happy to present to you now under a new title African Cosmology of the Bantu-Kongo: Principles of Life …

Africa brought this Catholic heritage to the future United States. Among the 20 individuals who famously, in 1619, were transported as slaves to Jamestown, Virginia, from the Portuguese …

In 1483 a small Portuguese fleet landed at the estuary of the Congo River and initiated relations with the kingdom of Kongo. Within a few years, the Portugese merchants had established a …

In the years between 1709 and 1715 the kingdom of Kongo under Pedro IV emerged politically in its modem, precolonial form after two generations of uncertainty and change.

The Kongo Kingdom and early history. This book sheds new light on that all-important period and goes on to explain the signifi cance of its cosmo-politan culture

THE KINGDOM OF KONGO, c. 1350-1550* By John Thornton Until the Portuguese sailor Diogo Cao first visited Kongo in 1483, it kept written records, although the subsequent conversion of …

‘KongoKing’ is an interdisciplinary research project that aims to examine the origins and development of the Kongo kingdom, combining archaeology and historical linguistics—two key …