A year before Columbus set sail for America, an African king was baptized and converted his kingdom into a Catholic nation that lasted nearly 370 years. King Nzinga a Nkuwu, ruler of Kongo ...

After I watched "The Woman King," I couldn't help but make comparisons to the Kingdom of Kongo, which I write about in my first nonfiction book, currently under contract with Orbis Books.

In 1483, the Portuguese first forged a relationship with the Kingdom of Kongo. Portuguese explorers aimed to spread Catholicism in Africa, colonize both people and land, and grow rich.

Far less widely researched than Ethiopia is the Kongo Kingdom (stretching across today’s Angola and the Democratic Republic of the Congo), which is the focus of Cécile Fromont’s essay. The history of ...

The Kingdom included portions of present-day The Congo, the DRC, Gabon, and Angola. The performance of about 45 minutes touches on themes including politics, slavery, and the evangelisation of Africa.

The origins of the Kongo lie in a number of small Iron Age communities lying just north of the Malebo Pool in the River Congo (formerly River Zaire). This strategic location provided fertile soil ...

Great Kingdoms of Africa eschews the chronological approach predicated upon the intervention of European colonialism on the ... Ancient Egypt and Nubia, The Kongo Kingdom, and The Zulu Kingdom.

Film Producer and Director, Ne Kunda Nlaba, a descendant of the Kingdom of Kongo and his team take on a journey in search this once great African Empire also known as Kongo Dia Ntotila.

By the 15th century Portugal was comparable to many kingdoms in Africa, ... This Manikongo, or king, resided over 300 km inland at Mbanza Kongo, ...