Kongo Lesson 5

KEY QUESTIONS
How successful were the manikongos?

CONTENT
·Afonso I
·Diogo I
·Alvaro I
·Pedro I
·Garcia I
·Garcia II

METHODOLOGY
1. Use e-book and other available resources to produce school report style assessments on the achievements of different manikongos
2. Feedback to compare manikongos to produce a table comparing factors such as:-
• Succession
• Attitude to Catholicism
• Relations with Europe
• Military campaigns
• Economic success

RESOURCES

Online:
E-Book: pp.22 – 24

John Thornton: The Correspondence of the Kongo Kings [JSTOR]
Encyclopedia Britannica

Dictionary of African Christian Biography

Dictionary of African Biography [Google Books]

Afro-Latino Voices [Google Books]

HOMEWORK
None

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