The Kongo people (Kongo: Bisi Kongo, EsiKongo, singular: Musi Kongo; also Bakongo, singular: Mukongo or M'kongo) are a Bantu ethnic group primarily defined...
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Kikongo, one of the Bantu languages Kongo languages Kongo people Kongo religion Kongo, Ghana, a town in Ghana Kongo Central, formerly Bas-Congo, a province...
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Kongo or Kikongo is one of the Bantu languages spoken by the Kongo people living in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the Republic of the Congo...
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The Kingdom of Kongo (Kongo: Kongo Dya Ntotila or Wene wa Kongo; Portuguese: Reino do Congo) was a kingdom in Central Africa. It was located in present-day...
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The Kongo cosmogram (also called yowa or dikenga cross, Kikongo: dikenga dia Kongo or tendwa kia nza-n' Kongo) is a core symbol in Bakongo religion that...
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Kongo religion (Kikongo: Bukongo or Bakongo) encompasses the traditional beliefs of the Bakongo people. Due to the highly centralized position of the Kingdom...
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Congo (redirect from The Kongos)
Mountain, in Costa Rica Niger–Congo languages Kongo languages Kongo language, a Bantu language Kongo people, a Bantu ethnic group The Congos, a reggae vocal...
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This is a list of the rulers of the Kingdom of Kongo known commonly as the Manikongos (KiKongo: Mwenekongo). Mwene (plural: Awene) in Kikongo meant a...
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Hoodoo (spirituality) (section The Kongo cosmogram)
incorporating the Kongo cosmogram, Simbi water spirits, and Nkisi and Minkisi practices. The West African influence is Vodun from the Fon and Ewe people in Benin...
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ruler of the Kingdom of Kongo from the Lukeni kanda dynasty and ruled in the first half of the 16th century. He reigned over the Kongo Empire from 1509 to...
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coordinates) GPX (primary coordinates) GPX (secondary coordinates) Kongo Central (Kongo: Kongo dia Kati), formerly Bas-Congo, is one of the 26 provinces of...
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Kongos may refer to: Kongo people, a Bantu ethnic group who live along the Atlantic coast of Africa from Pointe-Noire (Republic of Congo) to Luanda, Angola...
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Bundu dia Kongo (Kikongo; lit. "Gathering of Kongo"), known as BDK, is a new religious movement with a political and cultural agenda that is associated...
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Kongo (Portuguese pronunciation: [ɐ̃ˈbɐ̃zɐ], [ĩˈbɐ̃zɐ], [mɨˈβɐ̃zɐ] or [miˈβɐ̃zɐ ˈkõɡu], known as São Salvador in Portuguese from 1570 to 1976; Kongo:...
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Kongo people, a Bantu ethnic group in the Congo region Congolese (disambiguation) List of Congolese people (disambiguation) List of Congolese people from...
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In the Kongo Kingdom and its vassals (Loango, Kakongo, Ngoyo), the woven arts were emblematic of kingship and nobility. The coarse filament stripped from...
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organization served as the major ethno-religious organization for the Kongo people (also known as Bakongo) and became closely intertwined with the Kimbanguist...
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Soul dualism (section Kongo)
the dual identity of Kongo people. The concept of more kinds of souls can be found also in the mythologies of several Uralic peoples. See notion of shadow-soul...
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Manikongo (redirect from Mwene Kongo)
Awenekongo or Mwenekongo) was the title of the ruler of the Kingdom of Kongo, a kingdom that existed from the 14th to the 19th centuries and consisted...
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Kimpa Vita (redirect from Dona Beatrice of Kongo)
movement taught that Jesus and other early Christian figures were from the Kongo Kingdom. The name "Dona" indicates that she was born into a family of high...
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Cheick Kongo (born May 17, 1975) is a French mixed martial artist and former kickboxer who fights in the Heavyweight division. A professional MMA competitor...
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Joseph Kasa-Vubu (category Kongo people)
Republic of the Congo until 1964) from 1960 until 1965. A member of the Kongo ethnic group, Kasa-Vubu became the leader of the Alliance des Bakongo (ABAKO)...
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Congolese (section African peoples)
dictionary. Congolese or Kongolese may refer to: Congolese people (disambiguation) Kongo people, a Bantu ethnic group who live along the Atlantic coast of...
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the Congo and the name of the language they speak. A subgroup of the Kongo people, the Lari live in the communes of Brazzaville, the capital; and Pointe-Noire...
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The Kongō class (こんごう型護衛艦, Kongō-gata Goeikan) of guided-missile destroyers in the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force are equipped with the Aegis Combat...
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Democratic Republic of the Congo (redirect from Repubilika ya Kôngo ya Dimokalasi)
Kingdom of Kongo and its Bantu inhabitants, the Kongo people, when they encountered them in the 16th century. The word Kongo comes from the Kongo language...
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Kingdom of Kongo. The use of the phrase took on different connotations depending on where it was applied. There were two groups of people, both known...
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Nkondi (category Kingdom of Kongo)
minkondi, zinkondi, or ninkondi) are mystical statuettes made by the Kongo people of the Congo region. Nkondi are a subclass of minkisi that are considered...
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During this period, 200 years after Portugal had already settled in the Kongo people lands on the Atlantic coast of Central Africa in the 16th century, there...
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market, sing, worship, dance, and play music, it was named after the Kongo people. it’s the birthplace of jazz music. Today, Hoodoo and Louisiana Voodoo...
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