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Tippo-Tip (1974); Le cathecisme kikongo de 1624 (1978); Emeri Cambier, Correspondance du Congo (2001). For comprehensive discussions of the influence of Yoruba and Kikongo cosmology throughout the African Diaspora, see Thompson. Maureen Warner-Lewis identifies an alternative etymology for myal as "mayal<Mayaala, Kikongo, `person/thing exercising control,'" which creates for it a kind of moral ambiguity. |
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