Kingdom of Kongo 1390–1914
… the founders of the kingdom were KiKongo speaking people, and the spelling of Congo with a C comes from the Portuguese … political marriage of Nima a Nzima, of the Mpemba Kasi, and Luqueni Luansanze, of the Mbata, which cemented the … fall to scheming nobles, feuding royal factions, and the Trans-Atlantic slave trade, initiating its eventual …