Long before there was a Congo Square — indeed, long before there was even a New Orleans — there was a Kingdom of Kongo. Covering an expanse of Central Africa corresponding to the modern day countries ...

This dissertation brings together African and European historical documents and art objects to examine the correlated role of artistic form and religious thought in the cross-cultural encounter ...

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 ...

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 ...