Kimpa Vita
c. 1684–1706 · Kongo (Central Africa) · Early Modern
Kongolese prophet who led a religious movement blending Christianity and local tradition.
Portrait: Bernardo da Gallo · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikimedia Commons
- Birthplace
- Kongo (Central Africa)
- Known as
- Kongolese prophet who led a religious movement blending Christianity and local tradition.
Kimpa Vita (c. 1684–1706) endures among the great of Kongo (Central Africa). Kongolese prophet who led a religious movement blending Christianity and local tradition. Across the early modern age, this life and its works passed into the shared inheritance of humankind — kept here so the memory is never lost. Honored among the Great Ones of every civilization. Africa is the cradle of humankind; in the deepest sense, these are everyone’s ancestors — and so this name is kept, from the cradle of humanity to all its children.
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Sources
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