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Kikongo

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Ki·kon·go  (k-kngg)
n.
See Kongo.


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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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