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  2. Pre-colonial history of the Democratic Republic of the Congo

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    In the 18th Century a number of migrations took place from the Lunda Empire as far as the region to the south of Lake Tanganyika. The Bemba people under Chitimukulu migrated from the Lunda Kingdom to Northern Zambia. At the same time, a Lunda chief and warrior called Mwata Kazembe set up an Eastern Lunda kingdom in the valley of the Luapula River.

  3. Kingdom of Kongo - Wikipedia

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    The Kingdom of Kongo (Kongo: Kongo Dya Ntotila [6] [7] [8] or Wene wa Kongo; [9] Portuguese: Reino do Congo) was a kingdom in Central Africa.It was located in present-day northern Angola, the western portion of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, [10] southern Gabon and the Republic of the Congo. [11]

  4. Mardi Gras Indians - Wikipedia

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    Dancing in Congo Square, 1886. Mardi Gras Indians have been practicing their traditions in New Orleans since at least the 18th century. The colony of New Orleans was founded by the French in 1718, on land inhabited by the Chitimacha Tribe, and within the first decade 5,000 enslaved Africans were trafficked to the colony.

  5. List of National Geographic original programming - Wikipedia

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    Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller: Trafficking: 2 December 2020 22 March 2023 3 seasons, 28 episodes: Narco Wars: Drug trafficking/True crime: 9 December 2020 7 September 2022 3 seasons, 25 episodes: Breaking Bobby Bones: Travel: 31 May 2021 18 July 2021 1 season, 16 episodes: America's Funniest Home Videos: Animal Edition [c] Clip show: 11 ...

  6. Dandy - Wikipedia

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    Female dandies did overlap with male dandies for a brief period during the early 19th century when dandy had a derisive definition of "fop" or "over-the-top fellow"; the female equivalents were dandyess or dandizette. [34] Charles Dickens, in All the Year Around (1869) comments, "The dandies and dandizettes of 1819–20 must have been a strange ...

  7. Kongo people - Wikipedia

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    The Kongo people were a part of the major slave raiding, capture and export trade of African slaves to the European colonial interests in 17th and 18th centuries. [7] The slave raids, colonial wars and the 19th-century Scramble for Africa split the Kongo people into Portuguese, Belgian and French parts. In the early 20th century, they became ...

  8. List of National Geographic original features - Wikipedia

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    National Geographic Channel Inside North Korea: Cyber State 1 June 2021 Our America: Asian Voices 20 May 2021 Heroes of the Ocean 22 April 2021 Own the Room: 12 March 2021 Disney+ Built For Mars: The Perseverance Rover 21 February 2021 National Geographic Channel The March on Washington: Keepers of the Dream 18 February 2021

  9. Mangbetu people - Wikipedia

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    By the early 18th century the Mangbetu had consisted of a number of small clans who, from southward migrations, had come in contact with a number of northward-migrating Bantu-speaking tribes among whom they lived interspersed. In the late 18th century a group of Mangbetu-speaking elites, mainly from the Mabiti clan, assumed control over other ...