enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Culture of the Democratic Republic of the Congo - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_of_the_Democratic...

    The culture of the Democratic Republic of the Congo is extremely varied, reflecting the great diversity and different customs which exist in the country. Congolese culture combines the influence of tradition to the region, but also combines influences from abroad which arrived during the era of colonization and continue to have a strong influence, without destroying the individuality of many ...

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

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-colonial_history_of...

    The religions practised in precolonial Congo were as far as is known animistic in nature. They believed that places, objects and creatures could possess a spiritual essence and practised ancestral worship. According to the religion practised by the Bakongo people the world is split into the world of the living and the world of the dead.

  4. Culture of the Republic of the Congo - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_of_the_Republic_of...

    The culture of the Republic of the Congo is rich, diverse and made up of a mix of about 4.5 million people in 2015 and many languages and customs. Half of Congolese people follow traditional beliefs, and there are 15 principle Bantu groups and more than 70 subgroups.

  5. History of the Democratic Republic of the Congo - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Democratic...

    The earliest known human settlements in what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo have been dated back to the Middle Stone Age, approximately 90,000 years ago.The first real states, such as the Kongo, the Lunda, the Luba and Kuba, appeared south of the equatorial forest on the savannah from the 14th century onwards.

  6. History of the Republic of the Congo - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Republic_of...

    The earliest inhabitants of the region comprising present-day Congo were the Forest peoples whose Stone Age culture was slowly replaced by Bantu tribes. The main Bantu tribe living in the region were the Kongo, also known as Bakongo, who established mostly unstable kingdoms along the mouth, north and south, of the Congo River.

  7. Kongo religion - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kongo_religion

    Kongo Creation Story. According to researcher Molefi Kete Asante, "Another important characteristic of Bakongo cosmology is the Sun and its movements.The rising, peaking, setting, and absence of the Sun provide the essential pattern for Bakongo religious culture.

  8. Religion in the Democratic Republic of the Congo - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_the_Democratic...

    The Baháʼí Faith in Democratic Republic of the Congo began after `Abdu'l-Bahá wrote letters encouraging taking the religion to Africa in 1916. [20] The first Baháʼí to settle in the country came in 1953 from Uganda. [21] The first Baháʼí Local Spiritual Assembly of the country was elected in 1957. By 1963 there were 143 local ...

  9. Kongo people - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kongo_people

    The fragmented Kongo people in the 19th century were annexed by three European colonial empires, during the Scramble for Africa and Berlin Conference, the northernmost parts went to France (now the Republic of Congo and Gabon), the middle part along river Congo along with the large inland region of Africa went to Belgium (now the Democratic ...