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Bantu tribes migrated to the Congo basin from the northwest in the first millennium AD, forming several kingdoms and many smaller forest communities. Kongo emerged as a kingdom on the Atlantic coast in the 14th century. King Nzinga Mbemba entered into diplomatic relations with Portugal after 1492. Christian missionaries, who baptized the king Affonso, caused divisions in Kongo society; the Portuguese were expelled in 1526, only to be welcomed back after attacks by the Jagas in the late 16th century.
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Hochschild, Ada., King Leopold’s Ghost: A Study of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa Macmillan, London, 1999
Leslie, W. J., Zaïre: Continuity and Political Change in an Oppressive State. Boulder (CO). 1993
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Wrong, Michael., In the Footsteps of Mr Kurtz: Living on the Brink of Disaster in the Congo Fourth Estate, London, 2000
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Turner, B. (2004). Congo, Democratic Republic of the (Formerly Zaïre). In: Turner, B. (eds) The Statesman’s Yearbook 2005. The Statesman’s Yearbook. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230271333_144
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