Ngoyo

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Ngoyo was an Iron Age kingdom of the Woyo tribe in the south of Cabinda in what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Angola . It was founded by Bantu around the 15th century on the Atlantic coast of Central Africa north of the Congo . According to the tradition of the residents of Ngoyo, their ancestors were among the earliest settlers in the region under the leadership of their chiefs, who called themselves nfumu nsi ("Lords of the Earth"). The capital was Mbanza Ngoyo .

Around 1700 Cabinda took a leading position in the slave trade with its port north of Luanda ; Ngoyo's economy was largely based on the slave trade. In 1783, Ngoyo's armed forces, together with the state of Kakongo, destroyed a Portuguese fort. The kingdom soon experienced a decline due to the rising costs of kingship. After the nobles failed to choose a new king, disputes about the succession to the throne weakened the empire noticeably after 1830.

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  • Martin, Phyllis M .: Family Strategies in Nineteenth-Century Cabinda , in The Journal of African History 28.1 (1987); Pp. 65-86.

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