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The Last King of Kongo – How Slave Treaties Broke a Christian Kingdom

For centuries the Kingdom of Kongo was one of Central Africa’s most powerful and sophisticated states—a Christian kingdom with its own nobles, diplomacy and capital at M’banza Kongo. Yet by the 19th century its throne was broken, its people scattered, and its lands carved up by foreign empires. This documentary, “The Last King of Kongo – How Slave Treaties Broke a Christian Kingdom,” tells the hidden story of how a web of slave‑trade treaties with Portugal and other Europeans slowly destroyed Kongo from within. We trace Kongo’s early alliance with Portugal, the conversion of King Afonso I, and the rise of the Atlantic slave trade along the west‑Central African coast. Using maps and primary sources, we show how “friendship” and “protection” agreements turned into contracts for human lives, how rival factions within Kongo’s royal family used European guns and merchants to fight their own civil wars, and how battles like Mbwila (1665) and later colonial pressure reduced a proud Christian monarchy to a pawn. This long‑form African history documentary explores the final reigns of Kongo’s last kings, the loss of sovereignty, and how their signatures on trade and “protectorate” treaties opened the door to European colonialism in Angola and the Congo region. If you’re interested in the slave trade, pre‑colonial African kingdoms, or the real history behind the Berlin Conference and the creation of modern Congo and Angola, this video is for you. Watch to the end to see how one kingdom’s faith and diplomacy could not save its crown—and why the story of Kongo’s last king still matters in discussions of slavery, colonialism and African Christianity today.