Want to learn more about Congo culture, the people and ancient influences on today’s diaspora?
Here is a list of resources to enable our listeners to deepen their understanding. Check out the list below and thanks for listening.
1. Regina Bakala:
- Rescuing Regina: The Battle to Save a Friend from Deportation and Death (Josephe Marie)
2. JJ Bola:
-WORD (JJ Bola)
3. Daniel C Dawson:
-African Cosmology of the Bantu-Kongo: Tying the Spiritual Knot Principles of Life and Living (Kimbwandende Kia Bunseki Fu-Kiau)
-Flash of the Spirit: African and Afro-American Art and Philosophy (Robert Farris Thompson)
-Face of the Gods: Art and Altars of Africa and the African Americas (Robert Farris Thompson)
-The Four Moments of the Sun: Kongo Art in Two Worlds (Robert Farris Thompson)
-Kongo Graphic Writing and Other Narratives of the Sign (Barbaro Martinez-Ruiz)
-Central Africans and Cultural Transformations in the American Diaspora (Linda Heywood)
-Centran Africans, Atlantic Creoles and the Foundation of the Americas (Linda Heywood & John Thornton)
-Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400-1800 (John Thornton)
-The Kongolese Saint Anthony: Dona Beatriz Kimpa Vita and the Antonian Movement, 1684-1706 (John Thorton)
-The Kingdom of Kongo: Civil War and Transition, 1641-1718 (John Thorton)
-Central Africa in the Caribbean: Transcending Space, Transforming Culture (Maureen Warner Lewis)
-The African Heritage of American English (Winifred K. Vass)
-The Bantu Speaking Heritage of the United States (Winifred K. Vass)
-Recreating Africa: Culture, Kinship and Religion the African-Portuguese World, 1441-1770 (James Sweet)
-Rituals of Resistance: African Atlantic Religion in Kongo and the Lowcountry South in the Era of Slavery (Jonathan Young)
-Kongo Across the Waters (Susan Cooksey, Robin Paynor, and Hein Vanhee)