The Inkisi basin at the time of the Kongo kingdom. Confrontation of historical, archaeological and linguistic data

Le bassin de l’Inkisi à l’époque du royaume Kongo. Confrontation des données historiques, archéologiques et linguistiques

Start - End

2012 - 2017 (completed)

Type

PhD research

URL

http://kongoking.org/

Research group(s)

BantUGent - UGent Centre for Bantu Studies

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Abstract

This PhD project which is part of the KongoKing project consists of an multi- and disciplinary approach to settlement and urbanism in the Inkisi valley (DRC) at the time of the Kongo Kingdom (14th-19th c.), which had its northern provinces in that area.

People

Supervisor(s)

Koen Bostoen

Department of Languages and Cultures

Pierre de Maret

Phd Student(s)

Igor Roland Matonda Sakala

Department of Languages and Cultures
Department of History

Publications

A la recherche de Mbanza Nsundi, capitale provinciale du royaume Kongo. Fouilles archéologiques au site de Kindoki (Bas-Congo, RDC)(2015)
- Igor Matonda Sakala
- Els Cranshof
- Gilles-Maurice de Schryver
- Bernard-Olivier Clist
- Koen Bostoen
African-European contacts in the Kongo Kingdom (sixteenth-eighteenth centuries): new archaeological insights from Ngongo Mbata (Lower Congo, DRC)(2015)
- Bernard-Olivier Clist
- Els Cranshof
- Gilles-Maurice de Schryver
- Davy Herremans
- Karlis Karklins
- Igor Matonda Sakala
- Fanny Steyaert
- Koen Bostoen
Archaeological research on the Kongo kingdom in the Lower Congo region of Central Africa(2015)
- Bernard-Olivier Clist
- Els Cranshof
- Pierre de Maret
- Gilles-Maurice de Schryver
- Mandela Kaumba Mazanga
- Igor Matonda Sakala
- Nikis Nicolas
- Koen Bostoen
Le projet KongoKing : prospections archéologiques et enquêtes ethnoarchéologiques dans la vallée de l’Inkisi et régions avoisinantes (Province du Bas-Congo, RDC)(2014)
- Igor Matonda Sakala
- Els Cranshof
- Clément Mambu
- Roger Kidebua
- Koen Bostoen
The elusive archaeology of Kongo urbanism: the case of Kindoki, Mbanza Nsundi (Lower Congo, DRC)(2015)
- Bernard-Olivier Clist
- Els Cranshof
- Gilles-Maurice de Schryver
- Davy Herremans
- Karlis Karklins
- Igor Matonda Sakala
- Caroline Polet
- Amanda Sengelov
- Fanny Steyaert
- Charlotte Verhaeghe
- Koen Bostoen
The KongoKing project : 2012 fieldwork report from the lower Congo province (DRC)(2013)
- Bernard-Olivier Clist
- Pierre de Maret
- Gilles-Maurice de Schryver
- Mandela Kaumba Mazanga
- Igor Matonda Sakala
- Els Cranshof
- Koen Bostoen
The KongoKing Project : 2013 Fieldwork Report form the Lower Congo Province (DRC)(2013)
- Bernard-Olivier Clist
- Pierre de Maret
- Alexandre Livingstone-Smith
- Els Cranshof
- Mandela Kaumba Mazanga
- Igor Matonda Sakala
- Clément Mambu
- Jeanine Yogolelo
- Koen Bostoen