Kingdom of Kongo (late 15th century onward): When Portuguese explorers reached the Kingdom of Kongo around 1483, Christianity became the kingdom’s official religion by 1491. Kongolese rulers ...

Visit the exhibition "Barocco globale. Il mondo a Roma nel secolo di Bernini" at Scuderie del Quirinale in Rome.

Imani Perry’s new book, Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People, begins with a memory of blue: A missing ...

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 Sony World Photography Awards elevate the careers of photographers to the next level. Since the beginning, the Awards ...

The oldest recorded company is slated to be the Kabushiki Gaisha Kongo Gumi, a Japanese construction ... This was followed by The Royal Mint in the United Kingdom, which was created in 886 AD.

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) owes much of its global renown to its music, which reflects its cultural diversity.

By the 1400s, when Portuguese traders became the first Europeans to get involved in the African ivory trade, many African societies — including the Yao, Kamba, Ngonde, and the Kingdom of Benin ...

Heavy downpours in the Democratic Republic of Congo's capital Kinshasa have killed around 30 people while wreaking havoc across the central African megacity, an official told AFP on Sunday. After ...