Ngoyo was a kingdom of the Woyo ethnic group, located in the south of Cabinda and on the Atlantic coast of Central Africa, just north of the Congo River. In the 13th century it formed part of a confederation led by Vungu .

Ngoyo, former kingdom on the Atlantic coast of Africa, just north of the Congo River, in an area that is now part of southern Cabinda (an exclave of Angola) and western Democratic Republic of the Congo. It was founded by Bantu-speaking people about the …

The kingdoms of Loango, Kakongo, and Ngoyo were highly centralized states, a feature that may have favored their persisting autonomy from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries.

Ngoyo was a kingdom of the Woyo ethnic group, located in the south of Cabinda and on the Atlantic coast of Central Africa, just north of the Congo River, it was founded by Bantu-speaking people around the 15th century.

From this time, the fate of the kingdom of Ngoyo was linked to the growth and decline of the transatlantic slave trade. The kingdom of Ngoyo emerged towards the end of the 16th century, a century after the arrival of the Portuguese on the banks of the river Zaire.

Ngoyo was an Iron Age kingdom state of the Woyo ethnic group, located in the south of Cabinda (present-day Democratic Republic of the Congo and Angola). Located on the Atlantic coast of Central Africa, just north of the Congo River, it was founded by …

One day, more than twenty years ago, Zdenka Volavka found a lost treasure: the investiture regalia of the African kingdom of Ngoyo, dating from the Iron Age of the second millennium. The plaited copper crown or mpu, turned upside-down and filled with a jumble of metal objects, was on display in the MusTe de l'Homme in Paris, ignominiously ...

Sep 22, 2024 · Ngoyo was an Iron Age kingdom state of the Woyo tribe, located in the south of Cabinda (presentday Democratic Republic of the Congo and Angola). Located on the Atlantic coast of Central Africa, just north of the Congo River, it was founded by Bantuspeaking people around the 15th century.

Woyo / Bahoyo / Bawoyo / Ngoyo. The Woyo are a small tribe located both in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and in Cabinda (province of Angola) The Woyo live on the Atlantic Ocean coast, north of the estuary of the Zaire River. As early as the late fifteenth century, their ancient kingdom was known to Europeans as that of the Ngoyo.

Ngoyo Meets Dahomey; Ana Lucia Araujo, Howard University, Washington DC; Book: The Gift; Online publication: 26 October 2023; Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108989756.008