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    The Kongo people (Kongo: Bisi Kongo, EsiKongo, singular: Musi Kongo; also Bakongo, singular: Mukongo or M'kongo) are a Bantu ethnic group primarily defined...
    60 KB (7,233 words) - 03:58, 29 August 2024
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    Kongo religion (Kikongo: Bukongo or Bakongo) encompasses the traditional beliefs of the Bakongo people. Due to the highly centralized position of the Kingdom...
    30 KB (3,767 words) - 06:13, 7 July 2024
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    and God of the Sun across numerous traditional Bantu religions. The Bakongo people of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Angola and the Republic of...
    7 KB (693 words) - 09:21, 7 June 2024
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    Abrahamic religion. Many Hoodoo traditions draw from the beliefs of the Bakongo people of Central Africa. Over the first century of the trans-Atlantic slave...
    270 KB (31,270 words) - 15:26, 29 August 2024
  • Q'ero people of Peru, the Hopi people of Arizona, and the Bakongo people of Angola and Democratic Republic of the Congo. In traditional Bakongo religion...
    8 KB (960 words) - 01:25, 21 April 2024
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    cosmos. The Kongo cosmogram was introduced in the Americas by enslaved Bakongo people in the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Archaeological findings in the United...
    10 KB (1,173 words) - 14:30, 7 May 2024
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    spiritual world, or Nu Mpémba, with the ancestors, or bakulu. Because Bakongo people have a "dual soul-mind," or mwèla-ngindu, they are able to exist and...
    10 KB (1,288 words) - 16:57, 24 July 2024
  • largely from the traditional religions brought to Cuba by enslaved Bakongo people from Central Africa, but also incorporated ideas from Roman Catholicism...
    107 KB (14,463 words) - 18:43, 26 August 2024
  • containers. The Bakongo people's Nkisi Nkubulu looks similar to the mojo bags in Hoodoo. The spiritual philosophy of the mojo bag also has Bakongo influence...
    45 KB (5,364 words) - 02:51, 17 July 2024
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    only comparing people belonging to the same ethnic group." The same study found Tikar-related genetic variations amongst the Bakongo people of Democratic...
    43 KB (4,549 words) - 12:33, 21 August 2024
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    Mbundu people. By contrast, the other two major anti-colonial movements, the FNLA and UNITA, were rural groups. The FNLA primarily consisted of Bakongo people...
    163 KB (18,159 words) - 00:08, 17 August 2024
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    the phrase isimba ia nsi later becoming "guardians of the land." The Bakongo people traditionally believe that bisimbi are magically water spirits (in kikongo:...
    12 KB (1,241 words) - 07:02, 16 August 2024
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    particle ng (nk); some examples are Nyambe (Bantu), Nzambi Mpungu (Bakongo), Nzambici (Bakongo), Mulungu (Wayao, Chewa, Akamba, Embu and others), uThixo or...
    25 KB (3,134 words) - 06:09, 7 July 2024
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    sun. Each element correlates to a period in the life cycle, which the Bakongo people also equate to the four cardinal directions. According to their cosmology...
    41 KB (4,253 words) - 00:21, 11 July 2024
  • make way for an easier conversion of the Bakongo people to Christianity, it also created a hierarchy in Bakongo spirituality that reduced other spirits...
    7 KB (723 words) - 18:32, 11 June 2024
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    cannabis to Central and Southern Africa. In the 19th century, enslaved Bakongo people arrived in Jamaica, where they established the religion of Kumina. In...
    136 KB (18,066 words) - 20:21, 27 August 2024
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    Chokwe, who were armed with guns. By the 15th century CE, the farming Bakongo people (ba being the plural prefix) were unified as the Kingdom of Kongo under...
    39 KB (3,659 words) - 03:36, 6 August 2024
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    and Bakongo people, who were enslaved in the Southern United States and brought to North America under the slave trade. Among the Yoruba and Bakongo people...
    158 KB (17,382 words) - 17:16, 26 August 2024
  • The Alliance of Bakongo (French: Alliance des Bakongo, or ABAKO) was a Congolese political party, founded by Edmond Nzeza Nlandu, but headed by Joseph...
    7 KB (866 words) - 10:18, 25 August 2022
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    Mother and the god of the Moon and Earth. The Sun is very significant to Bakongo people, who believe that the position of the sun marks the different seasons...
    72 KB (8,190 words) - 18:26, 10 August 2024
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