kongo_portugal

Many blame Europe and mainly the Portugese for Kongo's downfall and the rise of Christanity in Africa. But how much do they really know about Portugal and Kongo's relation to each other? Let me start in the beginning. Kongo was a lovely kingdom, flourishing in the gold trade until the portugese came. Not a bad thing really, Kongo even became more prosperous under the slave trade. Actually, that wasn't REALLY the beginning. See the next paragraph.

[|Diego Cao] discovered Kongo in 1472 and told Potugal about it. In the early 14th century, Portugal set up a trading post in the island of Sao Tome and traded with kongo from there. Gradually, the P