"A landmark presentation that will radically redefine our understanding of Africa's relationship with the West, Kongo: Power and Majesty, opening at The Metropolitan Museum of Art this September, will ...

The Harn Museum's newest exhibit is a journey through both the time and physical space of a culture whose artistic influence often goes unexplored. “Kongo Across the Waters,” which opened Tuesday, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Early art -- The Kongo kingdom (early leadership arts, religious arts, Christianity and after, Funerary and memorial arts, minkisi) -- The Teke -- In the sphere of the Lunda Empire (Chokwe leadership ...