Marvolo
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A thread to talk about the influence of the Kongo people in the Americas.
Haiti
It's estimated that about half of the slaves brought to Saint-Domingue came from the Kongo kingdom. After the Fon slaves from Benin, they imput the largest influence on Haitian Creole and Haitian Vodou (for example Paquet congo and Kongo loa)
A work about Loango slaves history in Haiti
https://www.google.be/url?sa=t&rct=...33.pdf&usg=AFQjCNFYVnYbQ7eBCe50llbwDVyZzOgEOQ
African words origins in French Creole
Zombie: We give the origin of the word as West African and compares it to the Kikongo words "nzambi" (god) and "zumbi" (fetish). This root helps form the names of several deities, including the Kongo creator deity Nzambi a Mpungu and the Louisiana serpent deity Li Grand Zombi (a local version of the Haitian Damballa)
Calinda : it's a folk music and dance also practiced in Martinique, Guadeloupe and Trinidad and Tobagao; its roots are a martial art originating from Kingdom of Kongo (similar to capoeïra)
Méringue dance: a Kongo influence can be found in the persistent rhythmic figure that structured the melodies of the méringue, a syncopated five-beat pattern (often spoken as "dak-ta-dak-ta-dak") borrowed from the kata (time line) for the Vodou rhythm kongo and the rhythm used for carnival and rara bands, rabòday
Brazil
Central Africans slaves constituted about three-fifths of the slaves brought to Brazil.
Candomblé Bantu: It is one of the major branches of the Candomblé religious belief system. Its roots are originated from Kongo slaves who spoke Bantu (Kikongo and Kimbundu) languages.
A work about Central African Identities and Religiosity in colonial Minas Gerais
Jamaica
Kumina is a religion and practices that include secular ceremonies, dance and music that developed from the beliefs and traditions brought to the island by BaKongo enslaved people and indentured labourers, from the Congo region of West Central Africa. It's mostly practiced in the eastern part of Jamaica (parishes of St. Thomas, St. Mary, St. Catherine and Portland)
Jamaican Patois words of Kikongo origins
dingki
funeral ceremony
dundus
"albino", "white person", "European" from ndundu
djumbi
"ghost"
pinda
"peanut"
poto-poto
"mud", "muddy", also from Akan, Igbo and Yoruba
African etymologies of Jamaican Patois
Haiti
It's estimated that about half of the slaves brought to Saint-Domingue came from the Kongo kingdom. After the Fon slaves from Benin, they imput the largest influence on Haitian Creole and Haitian Vodou (for example Paquet congo and Kongo loa)
A work about Loango slaves history in Haiti
https://www.google.be/url?sa=t&rct=...33.pdf&usg=AFQjCNFYVnYbQ7eBCe50llbwDVyZzOgEOQ
African words origins in French Creole
Zombie: We give the origin of the word as West African and compares it to the Kikongo words "nzambi" (god) and "zumbi" (fetish). This root helps form the names of several deities, including the Kongo creator deity Nzambi a Mpungu and the Louisiana serpent deity Li Grand Zombi (a local version of the Haitian Damballa)
Calinda : it's a folk music and dance also practiced in Martinique, Guadeloupe and Trinidad and Tobagao; its roots are a martial art originating from Kingdom of Kongo (similar to capoeïra)
Méringue dance: a Kongo influence can be found in the persistent rhythmic figure that structured the melodies of the méringue, a syncopated five-beat pattern (often spoken as "dak-ta-dak-ta-dak") borrowed from the kata (time line) for the Vodou rhythm kongo and the rhythm used for carnival and rara bands, rabòday
Brazil
Central Africans slaves constituted about three-fifths of the slaves brought to Brazil.
Candomblé Bantu: It is one of the major branches of the Candomblé religious belief system. Its roots are originated from Kongo slaves who spoke Bantu (Kikongo and Kimbundu) languages.
A work about Central African Identities and Religiosity in colonial Minas Gerais
Jamaica
Kumina is a religion and practices that include secular ceremonies, dance and music that developed from the beliefs and traditions brought to the island by BaKongo enslaved people and indentured labourers, from the Congo region of West Central Africa. It's mostly practiced in the eastern part of Jamaica (parishes of St. Thomas, St. Mary, St. Catherine and Portland)
Jamaican Patois words of Kikongo origins
dingki
funeral ceremony
dundus
"albino", "white person", "European" from ndundu
djumbi
"ghost"
pinda
"peanut"
poto-poto
"mud", "muddy", also from Akan, Igbo and Yoruba
African etymologies of Jamaican Patois