kongo
Speech parts
1. kongo - Noun
2. kongo - Adjective
3. Kongo - Proper noun
Meaning
the Bantu language spoken by the Kongo living in the tropical forests of Zaire and Congo and Angola
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Examples
1429 ) ** King Lukeni lua Nimi of the Kingdom of Kongo (d.
Afonso believed that the slave trade should be subject to Kongo law.
Baptised around 1684 as Dona Béatrice, Kimpa Vita was raised Catholic and being very pious she became a nun seeing visions of St. Anthony of Padua ordering her to restore the kingdom of Kongo to its former glory.
Central and Southern Africa were largely isolated from other regions until the modern era, but they did later feature kingdoms like the Kingdom of Kongo (1400–1914).
Power was in the hands of the Mani, aristocrats who occupied key positions in the kingdom and who answered only to the all-powerful King of the Kongo.
Civil War within Kongo would lead to many of its subjects ending up as enslaved people in Portuguese and other European vessels.