History as hidden truth: imagining the Kongo past on religious websites.
This article focuses on the relations between the Internet, religion and 'Kongo history'. The websites under study claim an existing 'Kongo community' and recurrently evoke the Kongo kingdom and historical figures like Kimpa Vita and Simon Kimbangu. Texts and images on Kongo history have long been a...
| Publicado en: | Journal of African Cultural Studies Vol. 32; no. 1; pp. 7 - 24 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Mar2020
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