[Forthcoming discussion of
the ‘Manicongo’ maps in The Africa Map Circle]
See related:
- Njinga of Angola: Africa’s Warrior Queen: Linda M. Heywood
- John Thornton, ‘Religion, the Kingdom of Kongo and The Slave Trade’ | The Hutchins Center for African & African American Research
- The Kongo Empire & The Thirty Years War
- The Rise and Expansion of the Lunda Empire | John Thornton
- African Kings and Black Slaves: Sovereignty and Dispossession in the Early Modern Atlantic (The Early Modern Americas): Herman L. Bennett
and more generally:
- African Historical Cartography: Old Maps + New Technologies ~ New Communities + New Narratives
- Commerce and Cartography on Colonial Frontiers: Reexamining American & African History
- Repatriating African History: Artifacts, Technology, New Communities & New Narratives
- Learning Under Lockdown: Some Tools and Tips for Online Learning About Africa & the World
- A Short Overview of Emerging Digital Technologies for Research & Teaching in African History & Cultural Studies
and well as the detailed discussions at the 2019 i Tatti Conference:
and
For a recent overview of the historical experiences of the former Kongo kingdom you can view this excerpt from the BBC series by Zeinab Badawi:
BBC News Africa– Oct 18, 2020
In this episode Zeinab Badawi travels to Angola, DRC and Congo in central Africa to bring the history of the great Kongo Empire. She hears about the critical role played by women in African history such as Queen Nzinga who battled the Portuguese for a quarter of a century in the 1600s and a few decades later Kimpa Vita who was burned alive after her failed resistance.
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