Former WBO Global welterweight champion Chris ‘2 Slick’ Kongo kicks off 2022 by announcing that he has signed a multi-fight promotional deal with BOXXER and aims to get back into world title ...

Afonso I of Kongo strategically pursued a close mutually beneficial relationship with Portugal. At first, he collaborated in the slave trade, but later rejected it when it got out of control. While ...

Hadrien La Vapeur and Corto Vaclav follow the exploits of a Congolese witch doctor in their debut documentary 'Kongo,' which closed out the ACID sidebar in Cannes. By Jordan Mintzer From Jim ...

Museum shows of African tribal art often suffer from double binds of aesthetics and ethnography: objects that stun but bewilder and educational material that informs but devitalizes. Not “Kongo: Power ...

Hector Lombard, a former UFC middleweight, defeated Cheick Kongo, a former UFC heavyweight, in a Pillow Fight Championship main event on August 1, 2025, at the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex at ...

After an eye poke brought their first meeting to an unsatisfying end in less than a round, Bellator heavyweight Ryan Bader was looking to clearly assert his dominance against challenger Cheick Kongo ...

This dissertation brings together African and European historical documents and art objects to examine the correlated role of artistic form and religious thought in the cross-cultural encounter ...

A mid-18th-century watercolor depicts a Christian wedding ceremony in the kingdom of Kongo. A friar blesses a happy couple from underneath the veranda of an outdoor chapel. The bride and her ...

Only 20 Mangaakas are left in the world, so it was a coup for curator Alisa LaGamma when she acquired one of the fearsome Kongo power figures for the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2008. Carved in wood ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In January of last year, a small Osaka-based construction company, employing around 100 skilled carpenters, ...