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Kongo Audience
Kongo may refer to: Kongo culture *Kingdom of Kongo *Kongo cosmogram *Kongo language or Kikongo, one of the Bantu languages *Kongo languages *Kongo people *Kongo religion Places * Kongo, Ghana, a town in Ghana *Kongo Central, formerly Bas-Congo, a province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo *M'banza-Kongo, the capital of Angola's northwestern Zaire Province *Kongo University, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo People *Cheick Kongo, French heavyweight mixed martial artist and kickboxer *Cyril Kongo (also known as Kongo), (born 1969), French painter and graffiti artist *Kongo Kong (born 1979), American professional wrestler *Shekie Kongo (born 1949), Malawian boxer Arts and entertainment * ''Kongo'' (film), a 1932 American pre-Code film directed by William J. Cowen See also *Congo (other) *Kongō (other) *Kongos (other) Kongos may refer to: *Kongo people, a Bantu ethnic group who live along the Atlantic coast of Africa from Pointe-Noire (Re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kingdom Of Kongo
The Kingdom of Kongo ( or ''Wene wa Kongo;'' ) was a kingdom in Central Africa. It was located in present-day northern Angola, the western portion of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, southern Gabon and the Republic of the Congo. At its greatest extent it reached from the Atlantic Ocean in the west to the Kwango River in the east, and from the Congo River in the north to the Kwanza River in the south. The kingdom consisted of several core provinces ruled by the ''Manikongo'', the Portuguese version of the Kongo title ''Mwene Kongo'', meaning "lord or ruler of the Kongo kingdom", and its sphere of influence extended to neighbouring kingdoms, such as Ngoyo, Kakongo, Kingdom of Loango, Loango, Kingdom of Ndongo, Ndongo, and Kingdom of Matamba, Matamba, the latter two located in what became Angola. From to 1862, it was an independent state. From 1862 to 1914, it functioned intermittently as a vassal state of the Kingdom of Portugal. In 1914, following the Portuguese suppression ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cheick Kongo
Cheick Kongo (born May 17, 1975) is a French mixed martial artist and former kickboxer who fights in the Heavyweight division. A professional MMA competitor since 2001, he has also competed for the Ultimate Fighting Championship and Bellator. Early life Born to a Burkinabé father and a Congolese mother, Kongo began training in martial arts when he was 5 years old, learning Kendo and Karate. As he grew older, he had already received a black belt in both styles and began to expand his repertoire and trained in Boxing, Muay Thai, Savate, and Greco Roman Wrestling at the age of 19. At the age of 23 he learned Pencak Silat Persaudaraan Setia Hati Terate under the tutelage of Charles Joussoat and Franck Ropers, who learned it from C. N. Hardjono Turpijn, the pioneer of Pencak Silat PSHT in Europe. Kongo was interducted to Shootfighting through Bas Rutten at age 25, and started his career in mixed martial arts in 2001. He is also a cousin of rugby star Fulgence Ouedraogo, the Fre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kongos (other)
Kongos may refer to: *Kongo people, a Bantu ethnic group who live along the Atlantic coast of Africa from Pointe-Noire (Republic of Congo) to Luanda, Angola. *Kongos (band), a South African alternative rock/kwaito band. *John Kongos John Theodore Kongos (born 6 August 1945) is a South African singer and songwriter of Greek ancestry, best known for his 1971 Top 10 hit single " He's Gonna Step on You Again", on which Happy Mondays based their hit " Step On". His other big hit ... (born 1945), South African-born singer and songwriter of Greek ancestry See also * Congo (other) * Kongo (other) {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kongō (other)
Kongō () is the Japanese word for ''vajra''. It may refer to: * Mount Kongō, a mountain in Osaka Prefecture, Japan **Kongō Range The is a mountain range on the borders of Nara Prefecture, Nara and Osaka Prefectures on the island of Honshū in the southwest of central Japan. The range separates the Osaka Plain and the Nara Basin, and forms a natural place for the boundary ... * Mount Kongō (Sado), a mountain in Niigata Prefecture, Japan * , the name of several Japanese ships * Kongō (Noh school), a school of Noh acting * Kongō Masahiro (1948–2014), a Japanese sumo wrestler * Kongō Station, a railway station in Ōsakasayama, Osaka Prefecture, Japan See also * Congo (other), including Kongo * King Kong (other), called 金剛 in Chinese * 金剛山 (other) {{DEFAULTSORT:Kongo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Congo (other)
Congo or The Congo may refer to: * Congo River, in central Africa * Congo Basin, the sedimentary basin of the river * Democratic Republic of the Congo, the larger country to the southeast, sometimes referred to as "Congo-Kinshasa" * Republic of the Congo, the smaller country to the northwest, sometimes referred to as "Congo-Brazzaville" Places Africa * Congo Canyon, a submarine canyon * Kingdom of Kongo (1390–1914) * Kingdom of Kakongo (15th century–1885) * Congo Free State (1885–1908) * Republic of the Congo (Léopoldville) or Congo-Léopoldville (1960–1971) * People's Republic of the Congo (1969–1992) * M'banza Congo, capital of Zaire Province in Angola * Kongo, Ghana, town in Ghana * Kongo, Liberia, small town in Liberia Former colonies * Belgian Congo (modern-day Democratic Republic of the Congo) * French Congo (modern-day Republic of the Congo) * Portuguese Congo (modern-day Kabinda, Angola) United States * Congo, Alabama * Congo, Missouri * Congo, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kongo (film)
''Kongo'' is a 1932 American pre-Code film directed by William J. Cowen and starring Walter Huston, Lupe Vélez, Conrad Nagel, and Virginia Bruce. It is an adaptation of the 1926 Broadway play of the same name that starred Huston as well. The film is also a remake of the 1928 silent film '' West of Zanzibar'', which was based too on the 1926 play. That earlier film was directed by Tod Browning and stars Lon Chaney and Lionel Barrymore. ''Kongo'' has rarely been seen in theaters since its original release, but in recent years it has been presented on television by Turner Classic Movies. On May 3, 2011, a DVD version of the film was released as part of the Warner Archive Collection series . Plot "Deadlegs" Flint, an embittered paraplegic living in the Congo, controls local natives by dispensing to them small quantities of sugar and liquor (sometimes substituting the latter with kerosene). He also astonishes and frightens the natives by performing staged magic tricks, which cre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shekie Kongo
Shekie Kongo (born 13 June 1949) is a Malawian former boxer. Shekie competed in the light flyweight event at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich Munich is the capital and most populous city of Bavaria, Germany. As of 30 November 2024, its population was 1,604,384, making it the third-largest city in Germany after Berlin and Hamburg. Munich is the largest city in Germany that is no .... Standing under five feet tall, he was the smallest man in the boxing tournament and a favourite with the crowd. Kongo was given a bye in the first round, but was defeated in round two by his Ethiopian opponent Chanyalev Haile. References Malawian male boxers 1949 births Living people Light-flyweight boxers Olympic boxers for Malawi Boxers at the 1972 Summer Olympics Commonwealth Games competitors for Malawi Boxers at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games {{Malawi-boxing-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kongo Kong
Steven Wilson (born August 10, 1979) is an American professional wrestler best known under the ring name Kongo Kong. He is best known for his time with Global Force Wrestling and Impact Wrestling. Early career Wilson went to Saginaw Valley State University in Michigan, where he played football. While there, Wilson saw an advertisement for a wrestling school where he trained under Joe Ortega. Professional wrestling career Independent circuit (1998–present) Wilson made his professional wrestling debut in October 1998, where he competed under the ring name, Osyris, a character that Wilson modeled after Big Van Vader and Hulk Hogan. Wilson would go on to continue using this name through most of his independent run. In 2010, Wilson made his Juggalo Championship Wrestling debut now donning face-paint under the new name, Kongo Kong, a non-talking monster heel. The Kongo Kong gimmick was created by JCW co-founder, Violent J. Global Force Wrestling (2015–2017) Kong made his Gl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cyril Kongo
Cyril Kongo, also known as Kongo, was born in 1969 as Cyril Phan in Toulouse, France. He is a French painter and graffiti artist. Biography Born of a Vietnamese father and a French mother, Cyril Phan spent his early childhood in Vietnam until the fall of Saigon in 1975. During his adolescence, he lived for several years in Brazzaville in the Republic of the Congo, which inspired his artist name, Cyril Kongo. In 1986, he began tagging Parisian walls to set his mark. In 1988, he joined the ''MAC crew'', a group of Parisian graffiti artists with whom he painted from 1989 to 2001 monumental murals, particularly in the United States where he collaborated with New-York graffiti artists '' TATS cru''. The director ATN devotes a documentary, ''Trumac, de Paris à South-Bronx'' (''Trumac, from Paris to South-Bronx'') to these imposing works (including a wall about 50 meters long by 8 meters high). Kongo also appears in a 2004 film shot by documentary filmmaker Marc-Aurèle Vecchione ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kongo University
Kongo University () is a university in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Its name is abbreviated to UK, after its French name. The main offices of the university are located in Mbanza-Ngungu. UK currently operates two linked campuses, at Mbanza-Ngungu and at Kisantu. A permanent third campus at Mbanza-Luvaka has been under construction since 1992. Faculties and programs Mbanza-Ngungu Campus * Faculty of Business and Economics * Faculty of Engineering * Faculty of Law Kisantu Campus * Faculty of Agriculture * Faculty of Medicine Medicine is the science and Praxis (process), practice of caring for patients, managing the Medical diagnosis, diagnosis, prognosis, Preventive medicine, prevention, therapy, treatment, Palliative care, palliation of their injury or disease, ... * Faculty of Literature and Mass Communication See also * List of universities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo * Education in the Democratic Republic of the Congo External linksKong ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kongo Cosmogram
The Kongo cosmogram (also called ''yowa or dikenga cross'', Kikongo: ''dikenga dia Kongo'' or ''tendwa kia nza-n' Kongo)'' is a core symbol in Bakongo religion that depicts the physical world (''Ku Nseke''), the spiritual world (''Ku Mpémba''), the Kalûnga line that runs between the two worlds, the sacred river that forms a circle through the two worlds, the four moments of the sun, and the four elements. History Ethnohistorical sources and material culture demonstrate that the Kongo cosmogram existed as a long-standing symbolic tradition within the BaKongo culture before European contact in 1482, and that it continued in use in Central Africa through the early twentieth century. In its fullest embellishment, this symbol served as an emblematic representation of the Kongo people and summarized a broad array of ideas and metaphoric messages that comprised their sense of identity within the cosmos. The Kongo cosmogram was introduced to the Americas by Bakongo people enslaved ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
M'banza-Kongo
Mbanza Kongo (, , or , known as São Salvador in Portuguese language, Portuguese from 1570 to 1976; ), is the capital of Angola's northwestern Zaire Province with a population of 148,000 in 2014. Mbanza Kongo was the capital of the Kingdom of Kongo since its foundation before the arrival of the Portuguese Empire, Portuguese in 1483 until the abolition of the kingdom in 1915, aside from a brief period of abandonment during Kongo Civil War, civil wars in the 17th century. In 2017, Mbanza Kongo was declared a World Heritage Site, UNESCO World Heritage Site. History Mbanza Kongo (formerly called ''Nkumba a Ngudi'', ''Mongo wa Kaila'' and ''Kongo dia Ngunga'' ) was founded by the first manikongo, Lukeni, at a junction of major trade routes. The Kingdom of Kongo at its peak reached from southern Africa's Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic coast to the Nkisi River. The Manikongo was chosen by clan leaders to rule some 300 mi2, an area that today is part of several countries. The Portuguese ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
