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Under the sign of the cross in the kingdom of Kongo : shaping images and molding faith in early modern Central Africa / by Cécile Alice Fromont

This dissertation brings together African and European historical documents and art objects to examine the correlated role of artistic form and religious thought in the cross-cultural encounter ...
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The Kongo Kingdom : the origins, dynamics and cosmopolitan culture of an African polity / edited by Koen Bostoen, Inge Brinkman

Introduction: cross-disciplinary approaches to Kongo history / Koen Bostoen and Inge Brinkman -- Part I. The Origins and Dynamics of the Kongo Kingdom -- The origins of Kongo: a revised vision / John ...
The Atlantic

Daily Life in the Kingdom of the Kongo

Modern scholarship makes a fine thing of the records (sixteentheighteenth century) of Portuguese missionaries, traders, and slavers. Illustrations for this issue are from The Last Works of Henri ...
The Advocate

Review: Kongo Across the Waters

The Kongo kingdom ruled a swath of central Africa for 500 years. The Kongo king and his nobles surrounded themselves with finely wrought artistic objects, and when Portuguese explorers arrived in 1483 ...