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Igor Roland Matonda Sakala

igor.matonda@ugent.be

Department

Department of Languages and Cultures
Department of History

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Projects

Projects as PhD researcher

The Inkisi basin at the time of the Kongo kingdom. Confrontation of historical, archaeological and linguistic data (2012 - 2017)
KongoKing (2012 - 2016)

Publications

Most recent publications

Coutros, Peter, et al., editors. An Archaeology of the Bantu Expansion : Early Settlers South of the Congo Rainforest. Routledge, 2025.
Fortes-Lima, Cesar A., et al. “The Genetic Legacy of the Expansion of Bantu-Speaking Peoples in Africa.” NATURE, vol. 625, no. 7995, 2024, pp. 540–47, doi:10.1038/s41586-023-06770-6.
Matonda Sakala, Igor Roland, et al. “Le Projet BantuFirst : Rapport Sur Les Recherches de Terrain Archéologiques 2023 Dans La Province de Kinshasa.” NYAME AKUMA, vol. 102, 2024, pp. 45–52.
Coutros, Peter, et al. “The Beginning of the Iron Age South of the Congo Rainforest : The First Archaeological Investigations around Idiofa (Congo), c. 146 BC - AD 1648.” AZANIA-ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH IN AFRICA, vol. 59, no. 2, 2024, pp. 213–48, doi:10.1080/0067270x.2024.2296802.
Fortes-Lima, Cesar A., et al. “The Genetic Legacy of the Expansion of Bantu-Speaking Peoples in Africa.” BioRXiv, 2023, doi:10.1101/2023.04.03.535432.

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