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		The founders of the Bakongo state (a race of armourers(2) who had decided that demand was more fun than supply) had foundered their foundries and Bungi-jumped downstream from Bungu at some point in the 14th century.
		The Bakongo for their part, weren’t entirely convinced about the redemption business but were quite happy to receive whatever technology the Portuguese were prepared to pass on.
		The Bakongo never forgot where their power came from and their court was perhaps the only one in the world where the title "Smith" was more or less equivalent to "Count" (or would have been if their counts had counted as counts— see note 3).
	www.florilegium.org /files/CULTURES/Congo-art.html (1287 words)

	Kongo people - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bakongo leaders were quickly converted by Christian missionaries and assumed Portuguese court manners, and after an initial confrontation between those who supported the new relgion and those who rejected it, the party following King Afonso I triumphed and Kongo became a Christian kingdom.
		In 1568 Bakongo peoples were then invaded by the Jagas (Yaka), and the Bakongo were forced to look to the Portuguese for help, which ultimately allowed the to establish their colony in Angola on Kongo's territory, in 1575.
		The Bakongo cultivate cassava, bananas, maize, sweet potatoes, peanuts (groundnuts), beans, and taro.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bakongo (867 words)

	Angola - Bakongo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In 1988 the Bakongo were the third largest ethnolinguistic group in Angola.
		Concentrated in Uíge, Zaire, and Cabinda provinces, where they constituted a majority of the population, the Bakongo spilled over into the nation of Zaire (where they were the largest single ethnic group) and Congo.
		One of the first major revolts of the nationalist struggle was instigated by Bakongo in March 1961 in the northwest.
	countrystudies.us /angola/61.htm (424 words)

	MAR \| Data \| Assessment for Bakongo in Angola (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Bakongo have migrated throughout Angola, Zaire, and Congo during periods of rebellion and repression from the 17th century to the present.
		The Bakongo people were active participants of the Angolan independence struggle and the UPA became the National Front for the Liberation of Angola (FNLA) in 1962.
		Because of the impact of the civil war, the situation of the Bakongo in Angola is difficult to determine.
	www.cidcm.umd.edu /inscr/mar/assessment.asp?groupId=54001 (891 words)

	African Tribes - Bakongo People
		Bakongo leaders were targeted for conversion by Christian missionaries, and often divisions between followers of Christianity and followers of the traditional religions resulted.
		The stratification of Bakongo society resulted in much of the art being geared toward those of high status, and the nkisi figures were one of the only forms available to everyone.
		The Bakongo cultivate cassava, bananas, corn (maize), sweet potatoes, peanuts (groundnuts), beans, and taro.
	www.africaguide.com /culture/tribes/bakongo.htm (592 words)

	Europeans and Africans in the 1500s
		The king of the Bakongo from 1506 to 1540 was Mbemba-a-Nzinga, also known as Afonso I. When a youth he had ten years of clerical instruction and had become a devout Christian.
		They saw the Bakongo as uninhibited and lustful, the result, some of them thought, not only of the Bakongo's paganism but also of their eating food that was too spicy.
		In 1568 the Bakongo were invaded by Jaga tribesmen.
	www.fsmitha.com /h3/h17port.html (2546 words)

	NPS Ethnography: African American Heritage & Ethnography
		Historians argue that crosses and circles in certain contemporary African American rituals were derived from depictions of the cosmos traditional among Bakongo priests from the southwest coast of Africa (Thompson 1983:110,121; Stuckey 1983: 3–97).
		The Bakongo are a numerous and powerful people located in the southern portion of modern Democratic Republic of Congo near the Angolan border.
		Bakongo philosophers explain the land of the living as a mountain over a watery barrier separating this world from the land of the dead beneath.
	www.cr.nps.gov /ethnography/aah/aaheritage/lowCountry_furthRdg4.htm (1199 words)

	Angola - Kongo Kingdom
		One of the reasons for the success of the Bakongo was their willingness to assimilate the inhabitants they conquered rather than to try to become their overlords.
		Others, however, believed that the attack was probably launched by a Bakongo faction opposed to the king that may have been joined or aided by non-Bakongo seeking to gain control over the Kongo slave trade and other trading routes.
		Adding to Kongo's troubles in the early 1600s was a general dissatisfaction among the Bakongo with their rulers, some of whom were greedy and corrupt.
	countrystudies.us /angola/5.htm (973 words)

	Bakongo Information - Assata Speaks - Hands Off Assata - Let's Get Free - Revolutionary - Pan-Africanism - Black On ...
		The Bakongo speak various dialects of Kikongo, similar to the Kikongo spoken in the ancient kingdom.
		Her idealism and sacrifice inspired a tradition of mysticism among the Bakongo, and she is considered a precursor to the twentieth-century prophet Simon Kimbangu (1889–1951).
		The Bakongo were among the first sub-Saharan African peoples to adopt Christianity and, as a kingdom, had diplomatic ties with the Vatican.
	www.assatashakur.org /forum/showthread.php?t=19025 (3519 words)

	Winne.com - Report on Angola - Angola's tormented path to petro-diamond led growth
		The first of the these upheavals was in 1960, when hundreds of thousands of Bakongo were uprooted in the north-western provinces, following the harsh colonial response to the UPA rebellion, and took refuge across the border in what is now the DRC (ex-Zaire).
		Other Bakongo, and Africans in some other parts of the country, were regrouped into fortified villages by the portugueses.
		Although most of the boundaries of Mbundu territory remained fairly firm, the social and linguistic boundaries of the category had shifted, some of the peripheral groups having been variably influenced by neighboring groups and the groups close to the coast having been more strongly influenced by the Portuguese than were the more remote ones.
	www.winne.com /angola/bf04.html (4235 words)

	MAR \| Data \| Chronology for Bakongo in Angola (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		UNITA drew support from Tanzania, Zambia and China and later from the U.S. By the late 1970s, the FNLA became a secondary actor, forming a coalition with UNITA, and the conflict moved away from the traditional homelands of the Bakongo in the north to the central and southern areas of the country.
		Reports suggest this is a deliberate attempt to destroy the Bakongo (ethnic cleansing) who are referred to as "Zaireans" in Angola.
		Attacks are reported in the Bakongo region of Uige in the North and in Lunda Norte and Malange (not Bakongo regions), also in the North.
	www.cidcm.umd.edu /inscr/mar/chronology.asp?groupId=54001 (2011 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Bakongo kings ruled over a vast stretch of land and hundreds of thousands of people.
		The people lived in the shadow of the lush forests and they traveled on the currents of the mightly Congo river.
		The ancesors were dead of course, but they still came to the people's aid when ever the Bakongo had trouble.
	www.nhm.org /africa/tour/bakongo/001.htm (138 words)

	Historical Archaeology and Anthropology, C. Fennell, Articles
		"BaKongo Identity and Symbolic Expression in the Americas," an invited article forthcoming in The Archaeology of Atlantic Africa and the African Diaspora, edited by Toyin Falola and Akin Ogundiran, Indiana University Press.
		The past creation and use of such artifacts is analyzed using theories concerning modes of symbolic expression, the interplay of dominant and non-dominant religions, formation and maintenance of social group identities, and the role of individual creativity and innovation within those processes.
		This analysis demonstrates that changes in the form and use of BaKongo religious symbols in the material culture of African Americans resulted from the interplay of individual innovations and the creation of new social relationships.
	www.anthro.uiuc.edu /faculty/cfennell/articles1.html (506 words)

	Pedantry: A brief history of Bakongo
		The history of the Kingdom of Kongo - Bakongo in the Kikongo language - is, like much of African history, a tragic tale of a clash between local culture and external forces of change.
		For example, the writer noted that the Bakongo did not possess their own written language and the Kingdom essentially ended to Portuguese in the late 17th Century, thus one must recognize that the history of the Bakongo is told primarily from Portuguese people.
		I myself am a white Englishman and I am married to a Caribbean fl woman, and I feel sorry for the fl race because they are so lost in their own identity that they accept whatever white people tell them of who they are.
	fistfulofeuros.net /pedantry/archives/000284.html (2870 words)

	Batata y su Rumba Palenquera / Radio Bakongo / cdRoots (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Batata y su Rumba Palenquera / Radio Bakongo / cdRoots
		Batata y su Rumba Palenquera / Radio Bakongo
		They may not look as pretty on the outside, but they save money and keep the trash dumps a little bit emptier.
	www.cdroots.com /hm-bakongo.html (290 words)

	Symbolism in cemeteries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Bakongo believed in one god and an afterlife in a world populated by spirits.
		To the Bakongo, graves were important as mediums for communication with the spirits of the dead.
		The Bakongo decorated graves with personal belongings of the deceased--items the spirits would need in the afterlife.
	www.state.sc.us /scdah/cemsymbolism.htm (418 words)

	BaKongo Smoking Pipe
		The BaKongo people of the Democratic Republic of the Congo are also known as the Wongo and Ba-Ndjembe.
		BaKongo art as with their culture, is very similar to their neighbors.
		They produce excellent textiles and a diverse group of utilitarian objects such as pipes, drums, small mask pendants, combs, knives and ceremonial cups.
	www.authenticafrica.com /bacongopipe.html (144 words)

	Bakongo - Ethnos - Books about the Bakongo People
		The Bakongo thus live in Congo-Brazzaville, Congo-Kinshasa, and Angola.
		Among the Primitive Bakongo : A Record of Thirty Years' Close Intercourse with the Bakongo and Other Tribes of Equatorial Africa, with a Description of Their Habits, Customs, and Religious Beliefs
		Art and healing of the Bakongo, commented by themselves: Minkisi from the Laman collection (Monograph series)
	www.almudo.com /ethnos/Bakongo.htm (415 words)

	Storm Tidings: Bakongo
		In this history, I wish to chronicle the brief, glorious but, alas, tragic history of the Kingdom of the Bakongo.
		The Bakongo had next-door neighbours and they were prepared to sell
		The Bakongo never forgot where their power came from and their court was perhaps the only one in the world where the title "Smith" was more or less equivalent to "Count" (or would have been if their counts had counted as counts- see note 3).
	adamastorshire.co.za /chronicler/stormtidings/archive/jan/bakongo.html (1098 words)

	Great Performances: Free To Dance - Behind The Dance - Gimme De Knee Bone Bent
		As a result, the Bakongo culture of the Congo River area was well represented in South Carolina's early African-American majority, as evidenced by similar ideas about death, and specific burial practices and graveyard decorations, on both sides of the Atlantic.
		If the spoken language of the Sea Islands retained much from West Africa, so did the body language, and the characteristic ring shouts, which became known throughout much of fl America, had their greatest visibility in the Low Country.
		And just as Bakongo beliefs in "honoring the ancestors" had an effect on burial customs in the Carolinas, so too did the angular movements that characterize West African dance generally and Bakongo styles in particular emerge and persist in the dance motions of the Sea Islands.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/freetodance/behind/behind_gimme2.html (660 words)

	Find in a Library: Études Bakongo; sociologie, religion et magie.
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	www.worldcatlibraries.org /wcpa/ow/2ed7ec15425893ef.html (45 words)

	Bakongo Mass Murder
		3) The historic and famous campaign “Immediate and Total Independence for a United and Federal Congo” launched by the ABAKO (Bakongo Alliance) is well known.
		Appeal to the Ne-Kongo People (Bakongo) in the Diaspora
		We, who the republic of anti-values imposed on our people has forced to go into exile throughout the world, cannot be worthy of the invaluable heritage of our ancestors and the pride of our glorious elders by remaining inactive.
	www.nekongo.org /2007/mars/eng_conferencedepresse.htm (1157 words)

	BaKongo healing figure,VERY RARE, old - Africa Direct (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		BaKongo healing figure,VERY RARE, old - Africa Direct
		I have never seen one of these before...I was told that it was used for healing people far away.
		One leg of the "stool's" underside has been repaired, and the reclining figure is missing an ear.
	www.africadirect.com /productsdesc.php?ID=3208 (89 words)

	BBC - World Review - Batata Y Su Rumba Palenquera, Radio Bakongo
		I went to buy the C D RADIO BAKONGO last night at Towers Records Store in New york city and it was sold out.
		I just listened to it and dying to have it in my hands tonight I am planning to go back there oo all record stores in town to get it.
		Try the search box to the right, or the Artist Profiles.
	www.bbc.co.uk /music/world/reviews/batata_radiobakongo.shtml (559 words)

	Crocodile and Hen by Joan M. Lexau, Doug Cushman(Illustrator), New, Used Books, Cheap Prices, ISBN 0060284862 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		But when he opens his mouth wide to swallow her, Hen calmly says, "My brother, don't eat me," and Crocodile just can't do it.
		Clever Hen outwits the confused and hungry Crocodile in this comic folktale from the Bakongo people of Africa.
		Crocodile and Hen: A Bakongo Folktale (By Joan M. Lexau,Doug Cushman)
	www.bookfinder4u.com /detail/0060284862.html (370 words)

	FREE In-depth report - Bakongo - Angola
		This is public domain information from the US State Department Country Guide.
		If you did not find the information you were looking for on the subject of Bakongo you may wish to do another search of Exploitz.com: related Bakongo search
		A good starting point for researching Angola for travel or reference.
	www.exploitz.com /Angola-Bakongo-cg.php (520 words)

	Bakongo Nkondi Nail Fetish - RAND AFRICAN ART (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Bakongo Nkondi Nail Fetish - RAND AFRICAN ART
		Fetishes were protective figures used by individuals, families, or whole communities to destroy or weaken
		It has a lot of additional examples and information
	www.randafricanart.com /Bakongo_Nkondi_figure.html (3087 words)

	Batata y Su Rumba Palenquera - Radio Bakongo / RootsWorld Recording Review
		There's a bit of everything here, an expansive blend of Cuban rumba, charanga and son, cumbia, Lagos, Fela Kuti, Kinshasa, Papa Wemba, Paris, Tabu Ley and way more.
		Simply put, Radio Bakongo is a most original and soulful offering, performed with passion and a deeply lyrical sense of rootedness in the contradictory traditions that comprise the many strands of the African Diaspora embedded in the New World experience.
		No reproduction of any part of this page or its associated files is permitted without express written permission.
	www.rootsworld.com /reviews/bakongo.shtml (411 words)

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