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The Kingdom of Kongo: A Powerful Stand Against Portuguese Colonization
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Did you know there was once a powerful African kingdom that stood up to Portugal and nearly destroyed their colonial ambitions? Follow Forgotten Black Truths so you don’t miss tomorrow’s crazy history story! The Kingdom of Kongo, founded around the 14th century in what’s now Angola and the Congo region, was no small tribe, it was a centralized empire with a king, provinces, armies, and even a system of taxation! When the Portuguese arrived in the late 1400s, they claimed to come as friends, bringing trade, Christianity, and “civilization.” But soon, that friendship turned into domination. King Afonso I of
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