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Álvaro I Nimi a Lukeni lua Mvemba was a Manikongo (Mwene Kongo), or king of Kongo, from 1568 to 1587, and the founder of the Kwilu dynasty. [1] [2] Biography. Álvaro's father was an unknown Kongo nobleman who died, leaving his mother to remarry to King Henrique I.
Álvaro I (d. 1587), king of Kongo, was born in the middle of the sixteenth century. His birth name was Nimi a Lukeni Lua Mvemba. Little is known of his early life, and the name of his father has not survived.
…known as the Jagas, and Álvaro I Nimi a Lukeni (reigned 1568–87) was able to restore Kongo only with Portuguese assistance. In exchange, he allowed them to settle in at Luanda (a Kongo territory) and create the Portuguese colony that became Angola.
Jun 27, 2024 · The author of the text named the ruler of Kongo as Álvaro, married to his queen Catarina, and thus Álvaro I (c. 1568–1587), but he was not aware that Álvaro I had died “shortly before” Easter (29 March) 1587.
Aug 15, 2019 · For helping the kingdom to stand on its feet under King Álvaro I Nimi, the king allowed the Portuguese to settle in at Luanda (a Kongo territory) and create the Portuguese colony that became...
- Mildred Europa Taylor
Jun 29, 2021 · Kongo's adoption of Christianity in the late fifteenth century was the first time that an African power can be viewed as engaging in crusading ideology as a Latin Christian power. Significantly, Kongo was converted by Portuguese missionaries who were undertaking their own crusade.
Much of Kongo’s early historiography, especially that dealing with social and economic history, relied heavily on the Capuchin documentation, with the unspoken but underlying assumption that Kongo was always as the docu-mentation of the seventeenth century revealed it.
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