Ngoyo

Ngoyo was an Iron Age kingdom of Woyo tribe in the south of Cabinda in the present territory of the Democratic Republic of Congo and Angola. It was founded around the 15th century on the Atlantic coast of Central Africa, north of the Congo Bantu. According to tradition, the inhabitants Ngoyos their ancestors were among the earliest settlers in the region under the leadership of their chiefs, who called themselves nfumu nsi ( " lords of the earth "). The capital was Mbanza Ngoyo.

In 1700, Cabinda took with its harbor north of Luanda has a leading position in the slave trade; the economy Ngoyos was based largely on the slave trade. 1783 destroyed the armed forces Ngoyos together with the State Kakongo a Portuguese fort, the Kingdom experienced an early decline because of the rising cost of royalty. After the noblemen had not managed to elect a new king, weakened increasing throne succession dispute, the kingdom after 1830 felt.

Swell

• Martin, Phyllis M.: Family Strategies in Nineteenth - Century Cabinda, in The Journal of African History 28.1 (1987); Pp. 65-86.