Nsonso

Nsonso was a kingdom in what is now Angola. It was taken over by the Kingdom of Kongo at some point in the 16th-century, but became de facto independent by the end of the 17th-century.

In 1699 a visitor wrote that Nsonso was larger than the Kingdom of Kongo at the time.

Sources

  • John K. Thornton. History of West Central Africa to 1850.Cambridge University Press. 2020. p. 206.


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