Book contents
- The Kongo Kingdom
- The Kongo Kingdom
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Introduction: Cross-Disciplinary Approaches to Kongo History
- Part I The Origins and Dynamics of the Kongo Kingdom
- 1 The Origins of Kongo: A Revised Vision
- 2 A Central African Kingdom: Kongo in 1480
- 3 Seventeenth-Century Kikongo Is Not the Ancestor of Present-Day Kikongo
- 4 Soyo and Kongo
- 5 The Eastern Border of the Kongo Kingdom: On Relocating the Hydronym Barbela
- Part II Kongo’s Cosmopolitan Culture and the Wider World
- Bibliography
- Index
4 - Soyo and Kongo
The Undoing of the Kingdom’s Centralization
from Part I - The Origins and Dynamics of the Kongo Kingdom
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 November 2018
- The Kongo Kingdom
- The Kongo Kingdom
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Introduction: Cross-Disciplinary Approaches to Kongo History
- Part I The Origins and Dynamics of the Kongo Kingdom
- 1 The Origins of Kongo: A Revised Vision
- 2 A Central African Kingdom: Kongo in 1480
- 3 Seventeenth-Century Kikongo Is Not the Ancestor of Present-Day Kikongo
- 4 Soyo and Kongo
- 5 The Eastern Border of the Kongo Kingdom: On Relocating the Hydronym Barbela
- Part II Kongo’s Cosmopolitan Culture and the Wider World
- Bibliography
- Index
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- The Kongo KingdomThe Origins, Dynamics and Cosmopolitan Culture of an African Polity, pp. 103 - 122Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2018
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