Iberian Conquistadores and African Resisters in the Kongo Kingdom

Abstract

This chapter consists of a lecture presented at the international congress of historians held in Madrid in 1990 and it was published in the two volumes of congress transactions. The topic was shaped to reflect the Spanish tradition of land-hungry colonial conquistadores. Although the Portuguese commercial tradition of seafaring colonial activity was very different from the Spanish military practice, the Portuguese empire in Central Africa was nonetheless deeply influenced by Spanish custom in the century from 1568 to 1665.