The Kingdom of Kongo was the first pre-modern African country to convert to Catholic Christianity. Following the arrival of Portuguese and Italian missionaries, Kongo’s elites adopted the new ...

The kingdoms of Benin, Mali, Songhai, Kongo and Asante each had their own language and unique ways of leading and governing their people, and many practised different religions. Kingdom Ruler ...

Congolese photographer Sammy Baloji offers a deep dive into the history of the Kongo kingdom starting ... and political organization in pre-colonial Congo. The whole project started coming ...