Congo Maria N’koi is a Congolese rebel and healer known for having launched a “therapeutic insurgency” against the colonial administration of the Belgian Congo in 1915, opposing taxation and forced labor. Maria N’Koi (of the leopard) was named for a leopard she was said to have killed in her youth, and is also still associated …
Ngunza Simon Kimbangu
Congo Simon Kimbangu, (born c. September 12, 1887, Nkamba, near Thysville, Congo Free State [now Mbanza-Ngungu, Democratic Republic of the Congo]—died October 10, 1951, Élisabethville, Belgian Congo [now Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of the Congo]), Congolese religious leader who founded a separatist church known as the Kimbanguist church. Brought up in a British Baptist Missionary Society …
The Congo Plunder and Resistance
Before the colonial period, there were military struggles against annexation. During Belgian rule, charismatic religious figures emerged, promising an end to white domination