Kongo people (Kongo: Bisi Kongo, EsiKongo, singular: Musi Kongo; also Bakongo, singular: Mukongo or M'kongo) are a Bantu ethnic group primarily defined...

Kongo religion (Kikongo: Bukongo or Bakongo) encompasses the traditional beliefs of the Bakongo people. Due to the highly centralized position of the...

emerged largely from the traditional religions brought to Cuba by enslaved Bakongo people from Central Africa, but also incorporated ideas from Roman Catholicism...

The Alliance of Bakongo (French: Alliance des Bakongo, or ABAKO) was a Congolese political party, founded by Edmond Nzeza Nlandu, but headed by Joseph...

Hopi people of Arizona, and the Bakongo people of Angola and Democratic Republic of the Congo. In traditional Bakongo religion, the four elements are...

Father, and God of the Sun across numerous traditional Bantu religions. The Bakongo people of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Angola and the Republic...

The Bakongo Cosmogram, depicting Nzambi's four moments of the sun...

is the eternal God of Essence, as well as Moon, Earth and Sky Mother in Bakongo religion. She is also the female counterpart of the Kongo creator god,...

Abrahamic religion. Many Hoodoo traditions draw from the beliefs of the Bakongo people of Central Africa. Over the first century of the trans-Atlantic...

traditions and native languages or dialects include the Ovimbundu, Ambundu, Bakongo, Chokwe, Avambo and other peoples. There are over 100 distinct ethnic groups...

particle ng (nk); some examples are Nyambe (Bantu), Nzambi Mpungu (Bakongo), Nzambici (Bakongo), Mulungu (Wayao, Chewa, Akamba, Embu and others), uThixo or...

the sea, bodies of water, and ancestral spirits related to the sea. The Bakongo believe that in the beginning there was only a circular void, called mbûngi...

Kikongo: dikenga dia Kongo or tendwa kia nza-n' Kongo) is a core symbol in Bakongo religion that depicts the physical world (Ku Nseke), the spiritual world...

(Afropavo congensis), also known as the African peafowl or mbulu by the Bakôngo, is a species of peafowl native to the Congo Basin. It is one of three...

The National Front for the Liberation of Angola (FNLA) recruited from Bakongo refugees in Zaire. Benefiting from particularly favourable political circumstances...

Kongo" (plural) and "Mwisi Kongo" (singular). Today they call themselves "Bakongo" (pl.) and "Mukongo" (sing.). Kongo was the earliest Bantu language to...

konga, 'to gather' (trans[itive])." The modern name of the Kongo people, Bakongo, was introduced in the early 20th century.[citation needed] The Democratic...

the god of fire and change. This may have a connection to an element of Bakongo cosmology called Kalûnga. It was seen as the spark of fire that begot all...

"qualities" that are in the physical world and take forms in it. In traditional Bakongo religion, the five elements are incorporated into the Kongo cosmogram....

Bakongo masks from the Kongo Central...

documentation of the era and modern genealogical studies are listed below. The BaKongo of the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Republic of the Congo and Angola...

Asase Ya Children Bia • Tano/Tano Equivalents Roman equivalent Jupiter Bakongo equivalent Nzambi Mpungu Egyptian equivalent Amun Igbo equivalent Chukwu...

arrived in 1483 or 1484. The kingdom's name derived from its people, the Bakongo, an endonym said to mean "hunters" (Kongo: mukongo, nkongo). During the...

Ambundu people. In recent decades of the 21st century, the number of ethnic Bakongo and Ovimbundu have also increased. Ethnic Europeans are mainly Portuguese...

mid-15th century, making contact with the Manikongo, the powerful King of the Bakongo tribe. The Manikongo controlled much of the region through affiliation...

groups Democratic Republic of the Congo 77 80% 76 B, C, D, H, J, K, L, M Bakongo, Mongo, Baluba, numerous others (Ambala, Ambuun, Angba, Babindi, Baboma...

claimed to have 58,000 members. The MNC's main rival was the Alliance des Bakongo (ABAKO), led by Joseph Kasa-Vubu, who advocated a more radical ideology...

the FNLA and UNITA, were rural groups. The FNLA primarily consisted of Bakongo people from Northern Angola. UNITA, an offshoot of the FNLA, was mainly...

cannabis to Central and Southern Africa. In the 19th century, enslaved Bakongo people arrived in Jamaica, where they established the religion of Kumina...

like the Ovimbundu to the South, or the Bakongo to the North. The name Mbundu was first used by the Bakongo, before it was adopted by the Ambundu themselves...