Even encountering African Christian communities, Europeans labeled local practices as heretical, justifying colonization and enslavement despite shared faith. In Ethiopia, Portuguese Jesuits rejected ...

Rediscovering powerful African Christian kingdoms, such as the Kingdom of Kongo, which actively engaged with Christianity in the 15th and 16th centuries, dismantles the myth that Christianity was ...

The kingdoms of Benin, Mali, Songhai, Kongo and Asante each had their own language and unique ways of leading and governing their people, and many practised different religions. Kingdom Ruler ...

Congolese photographer Sammy Baloji offers a deep dive into the history of the Kongo kingdom starting from ... Luba is unique ...