Powerful Bakongo kingdom of west-central Africa that adopted Christianity around 1491.
Following a Kongo revolt, Portugal abolished the titular monarchy in 1914 and annexed the remaining territory into Portuguese Angola; King Manuel III was the last reigning Mwenekongo.
The atlas holds 3 border frames for Kingdom of Kongo — the shape you scrub through changes in 1390 · 1569 · 1666.
Fromont's award-winning study of Christian visual culture and royal power in the early modern Kingdom of Kongo.
Sets Kongo's military and political history in the wider Atlantic African context.