Congolese photographer Sammy Baloji offers a deep dive into the history of the Kongo kingdom starting from the ... and the evangelisation of Africa. "I was keen to work on these themes because ...

a series of kingdoms rose and fell in West Africa. The kingdoms of Benin, Mali, Songhai, Kongo and Asante each had their own language and unique ways of leading and governing their people ...

Paideuma: Mitteilungen zur Kulturkunde, Bd. 33, European Sources for Sub-Saharan Africa Before 1900: Use and Abuse (1987), pp. 407-421 (15 pages) ...

By the 15th century Portugal was comparable to many kingdoms in Africa, although possibly less ... resided over 300 km inland at Mbanza Kongo, and yet everyone knew him and paid tribute to him ...