Kongo

[kong-goh]

noun

plural

Kongos ,

plural

Kongo .

1. a member of an Indigenous people living in west-central Africa along the lower course of the Congo River.

2. Also called Kikongo. the Bantu language of the Kongo people, used as a lingua franca in the lower Congo River basin.

Kongo

/ ˈkɒŋɡəʊ /

noun

1. a member of a Negroid people of Africa living in the tropical forests of the Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly Zaïre), Congo Brazzaville, and Angola

2. the language of this people, belonging to the Bantu group of the Niger-Congo family

Example Sentences

She also starred in the title role of 1954’s “Panther Girl of the Kongo.”

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The group's head, Tsaka Kongo, told the BBC that the family was required to present a letter to the authorities agreeing to end their disputes and allow the government to organise the burial.

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This last tradition is possibly derived from enslaved Yoruba and Kongo people living in Texas at the time, for whom the color red represents spiritual power, culinary historian Michael Twitty writes in his blog Afroculinaria.

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Yet, the four classical elements are one of civilization’s great unifiers, a cosmological theory shared by the Hindu Vedas, the Buddhist Mahabhuta, the Kongo cosmogram, the Indigenous medicine wheel and the zodiac.

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Among the faithful was Clément L’onde, who travelled from Kisantu, a town in the province of Central Kongo, more than 150 kilometers from Kinshasa.

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