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The Kalûnga Line marks the watery threshold in Bakongo cosmology dividing the living from the ancestral dead. This archive traces its cosmogenic origins, cosmogrammatic geometry, devotional observances, and haunting survival across the Atlantic diaspora, where enslavement recast the ocean itself as the boundary between worlds.

I Ett motsägelsefullt möte utforskar historikern Pia Lundqvist med hjälp av dagböcker och brev, missionärernas möte med befolkningsgruppen bakongo.

PDF | On Sep 1, 2018, Duncan Caldwell published The magic trumpeter: A Bakongo nkisi nkondi and its links with World War I, the Harlem Hellfighters, and jazz | Find, read and cite all the research you...

(This takes 7–10¼ minutes to read.) >The repression in Angola was to intensify dramatically in June 1960, after the independence of the Congo with Lumumba. The MPLA, with a poor following in the rural...

Après le show de Kintélé… et maintenant ? Dès lors que Denis Sassou Nguesso a lui-même posé les termes du débat en déclarant :« Le stade de Kintélé est celui de l’union du Nord, tandis que le stade Massamba-Débat est celui des Bakongo »,et qu’à cela a succédé un silence assourdissant, lourd de sens. Dès lors que la question s’impose avec acuité :« Sika oyo nani a bomi le Congo ? »— autrement dit : qui a réellement mis en péril la République ? — Alors une seule interrogation demeure :

De la diversion à la confusion : qui porte réellement la responsabilité ? Hier, on disait :« Bakongo ba bomi Marien » Aujourd’hui, vous affirmez :« Le Congo va mal à cause de vous, doyen Boukadia » Je pose des questions simples, auxquelles chacun peut répondre en toute objectivité : Qu’a fait Modeste Boukadia pour conduire le Congo dans la situation actuelle ?A-t-il été ministre ? Non.A-t-il dirigé l’État ? Non.A-t-il participé aux décisions ayant mené aux crises économiques, sociales et humaines que traverse le pays ?

Continuing with another African Nalbound Object of the Week, this stunning nkutu (prestige cape) comes from mid-19th century Congo. While the tradition of net-like garments being worn by high ranki…

Continuing with another African Nalbound Object of the Week, this stunning nkutu (prestige cape) comes from mid-19th century Congo. While the tradition of net-like garments being worn by high ranki…