Kimpa Vita: The Life and Legacy of the Influential Christian Prophet in the Kingdom of Kongo by Charles River Editors
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Overview: Africa may have given rise to the first human beings, and Egypt probably gave rise to the first great civilizations, which continue to fascinate modern societies across the globe nearly 5,000 years later. From the Library and Lighthouse of Alexandria to the Great Pyramid at Giza, the Ancient Egyptians produced several wonders of the world, revolutionized architecture and construction, created some of the world’s first systems of mathematics and medicine, and established language and art that spread across the known world. With famous leaders like King Tut and Cleopatra, it’s no wonder that today’s world has so many Egyptologists, but interest in Africa has been present long before the modern era.
In the Middle Ages, the Holy Lands were lost to Christianity, and Christian Europe was under siege. Folk tales began to circulate — their origins obscure, but first noted in historic texts around the 12th century CE — of a lost Christian kingdom in the East, the kingdom of Prester John. It was believed that this kingdom had the patriarch of Saint Thomas, who proselytized in the Orient. Later, in the 15th century, under the impetus of the Portuguese King Henry the Navigator, Portuguese missionaries and navigators entered the Indian Ocean from the south and, creeping northward up the east coast of Africa, heard ever more substantial tales of a Christian kingdom lost in the belly of Islam. As they entered upon the coast of Somalia, competing in a growing trade in slaves and gold with Arabs of the peninsula, they become increasingly interested in the source of this legend.
Genre: Non-Fiction > History
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