The Kingdom of Kongo was one of the largest and most powerful in the southern half Africa. At the heart of the capital in M'banza-Kongo stand the ruins of a building constructed in the middle of ...

A year before Columbus set sail for America, an African king was baptized and converted his kingdom into a Catholic nation that lasted nearly 370 years. King Nzinga a Nkuwu, ruler of Kongo ...

Exploring the connections between the art and culture of the Kongo peoples of western Central Africa and African-Americans in the U.S., "Kongo Across the Waters" exhibition at New Orleans Museum ...

The Kongo civilization, which prospered for centuries along the Atlantic coast of central Africa, found itself besieged in the 19th century by increasingly hostile European powers.

The History of Africa Episode 4 of 5 Zeinab Badawi travels to Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Congo in central Africa to bring the history of the great Kongo Empire.

For this anthology on Africanisms in American culture, Thompson weaves together several of the ideas and themes he has so eloquently evoked elsewhere. At the center is his idea of a Kongo diaspora, ...