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Article: Origin traditions and history in Central Africa.
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- African Arts
- Article date:
- March 22, 2004
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Historians using oral traditions must continually grapple with traditions of origin, for unlike scholars of religion, folklore, or ideology, they must determine what is historical and what is legendary in these ancient memories. Yet for Africa these traditions are all that historians have to reconstruct the origins of the societies that they study. Thus, early European historians of central Africa--for example, the great missionary historian Giovanni Antonio Cavazzi da Montecuccolo, who wrote Angolan history in the mid-seventeenth century (Cavazzi 1687)--anchored their research in oral traditions. (1) Historians working during the early colonial period used oral tradition ...
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Dictionary definition: Kongo kingdom
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...Kongo kingdom A kingdom in Central Africa, established south of the River ... powerful kingdoms in the region. The Kongo people traded over long distances ... encouraged civil wars and weakened the Kongo kingdom by the mid-17th century ...
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