Country: Angola

Group: Kongo

Date Finalized: 3/1/2022

Team: Anusha Natarajan (lead), Alicia Hernandez, Ash Pessaran, Amaya Tanhueco

Content Warning: slavery, forced labor

Approximate Time Period: 1438 – Present Day

Today, the Bakongo people of Central Africa comprise around 13 percent of Angola’s population, and the majority of the inhabitants of the northern Angolan province of Cabinda” (Minority Rights Group, 2021). The Kongo people originated in Angola, and have now spread out to central and Western Africa and northern sub-Saharan Africa. With Portuguese colonization, Kongo people experienced lethal violence as a result of the slave trade from around 1500 to the mid-1800s (Thornton, 2013; Fromont, 2018).

Data Quality: Data quality is a 2/3 because there was a presence to find unbiased and credible information about the Kongo people.

Sources

  1. Minority Rights Group. (2021, January 20). Bakongo and Cabindans. Retrieved September 13,2022, from https://minorityrights.org/minorities/bakongo-and-cabindans/
  2. Thornton, J. K. (2013). The Kingdom of Kongo and the Counter Reformation. Social Sciences & Missions, 26(1), 40–58. https://doi-org.ezproxy1.lib.asu.edu/10.1163/18748945-02601002
  3. Fromont, C. (2018). Common Threads: Cloth, Colour, and the Slave Trade in Early Modern Kongo and Angola. Art History, 41(5), 838–867. https://doi-org.ezproxy1.lib.asu.edu/10.1111/1467-8365.12400
  4. South African History Online. Kingdom of Kongo 1390 – 1914. (n.d.). Retrieved September 13, 2022, from https://www.sahistory.org.za/article/kingdom-kongo-1390-1914
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