I know through my dad 90% of basic I formation of Kongo Ki gdom and I write also in Mandombe the Alphabet of David Wabeladio Payi which Kimbanguiste believe that has been sent directly from God, my name also is a pure demonstration of Bakongo knowledge, the sad fact is that most Angolans are proud of being Bakongo like me since I am Angolan but many Congolese Bakongo fake to be mungala/bangala but I never womderstood that, what I am most proud of is that Kongo Kingdom has given name two two state (Congo Brazza and RD Congo Kinshasa) plus Angola's name 'Ngola which literally means catfish, the nice fact is that on wikipedia of pretty almost all European and African languages there are wide information's about Kongo Kingdom so it is even sadder to see how it sadly ended in 1918 with the last king's Kiditu being deposed by the Portuguese after centuries of attacks.I went on a bit with reflexions but I always get emotional when I speak about Kongo's Kingdom
That's because of Mobutu who finished them and made Lingala have a big influence in the Bas Congo-province with Kikongo coming more on the background, espcially with the generation born in the '80s. The killing of all their influent leaders Kasa-Vubu, Emmanuel Bamba (who was a influent kimbangist and potenial replacer of Kasa-Vubu. He is one of 4 guys who were the martyrs of the pentecost), Nzeza Landu (founder of Abako), General Massiala (it's being said that Mobutu drunk his blood after those satanic ceremonies. Since that were rumors that Kasa-Vubu left him the Nkodia before his death and that he wanted to prepare a coup d'etat against him), etc. and the campain to denigrate the Bakongo-people, which made them feel inferior to other tribes.
Can you guys expand on how and why was there an anti bakongo campain and how was the campain spread ? Did Mobutu have a personal vengeta against Kongos or just against any group that wasnt Ngala? Were the 4 martyrs all Kongo? Manzambi I 100% feel you on RDC Kongos. I grew up in Paris and never in my life heard a Kinois Brother claim his Kongo background. To the point I didnt even know there were Kongos in RDC until I started doing research, no joke. I thought it was a minor minor portion of their population that was Bakongo, come to find out at a time they were a 3rd of the population. I do find it odd that every nation that kongos were in we’re always persecuted, seems like mobutu had it out for us. In Brazzaville Denis Sassou Nguesso been trying to exterminate us for bout 30 years. And I dont know much about Angola, but if Ngola is a kikongo word and kikongo is not even the national language then something is wrong. That is where Mbanza Kongo was located for Gods Sake.
Quote from: BrazzaBoy on April 07, 2018, 00:07Can you guys expand on how and why was there an anti bakongo campain and how was the campain spread ? Did Mobutu have a personal vengeta against Kongos or just against any group that wasnt Ngala? Were the 4 martyrs all Kongo? Manzambi I 100% feel you on RDC Kongos. I grew up in Paris and never in my life heard a Kinois Brother claim his Kongo background. To the point I didnt even know there were Kongos in RDC until I started doing research, no joke. I thought it was a minor minor portion of their population that was Bakongo, come to find out at a time they were a 3rd of the population. I do find it odd that every nation that kongos were in we’re always persecuted, seems like mobutu had it out for us. In Brazzaville Denis Sassou Nguesso been trying to exterminate us for bout 30 years. And I dont know much about Angola, but if Ngola is a kikongo word and kikongo is not even the national language then something is wrong. That is where Mbanza Kongo was located for Gods Sake.In Angola is even worse, Edoardo Does Santos since he is left wing and since in 1975 right after Indepe dece civil war started feared that Bakongo could take the power, so in 1992 since election came and Bakongo voted for UNITA (which is a very right wing party the equivalent of KKK in America maybe even worse) Dos Santos has the great idea to send journalists in Bakongo zones and used dead corpse of babies putting them into the refrigerator calling journalist of MPLA for saying that we Bakongo eat children and basically to justify the kind of extermination of the Bakongo who went after, every Angolan Bakongo remind that 1992 date, a pure genocide but since it is Africa it is not famous like slavery or holocaust. Since then we kinda disappeared from Angolan life, being more active in Congo and locally in north Angola making the best to keep KiKongo alive, the sad fact is that in Angola for being considered a real Angolan you must know Portuguese and speak Portuguese and have a Portuguese name, people would check you strangely now if you have African name,you see in Angola there are two big way of thinking since the Portuguese came in 1492 along with Columbus in Amerixa the pro Portuguese ones (Creole, Luandans) and Anti-Portoguese (Bakongo, Chokwe, Umbundu, Ovimbundu) Portuguese use to send a lot of Creoles who were slaves in other Portuguese colonies in Angola so they could outscore numerically "Real Angolans" so that they could only speak Portuguese loosing their African language, and if you check Luanda or many other cities who accepted Portuguese colonization Luanda seems like Europe, but check our parts, M'Banxa Congo, Cabinda, Cuilofuta, Uige and so on, dirt, no streets only nature, because Bakongo people never accepted Portuguese invasion in fact they only took Portuguese as their counselors for aiding the kingdom but all the Portuguese were doing was gossiping in the royal house for fueling conflict, in fact many kings and queens has succeeded until 1918 when the Kingdom has officially dead.Despite everything, the discrimination, the hate from other Angolans and so on, we Bakongo Angolans we are proud of being BaKongo, we feel like we have done a lot for Central Africa and there is no leader, head of state who will tell us that we are bad, that we eat children and so on, kingdom of Kongo has more years then Angolan state, and many writers African and Europeans have dedicated full books to the Kingdom.
Are there any books/journals that are in English detailing this kind of history? The ones that have been reccomended to me are in French. I don't know a lick of French.