Kingdom of Macoco

Regno di macoco1  feudatario di Congo. Si dorme dentro delle Zucche.

Kingdom of macoco vassal of the Kongo. They sleep in gourds. 

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    The Makoko Kingdom also known as Anziko, Teke, or Tio, lays north of the Congo River, and controlled the area around Malebo Pool, i.e. today’s Kinshasa. See Mwene Ndzale Obenga, “Le royaume de Makoko,” Présence Africaine (1969); Jan Vansina, The Tio Kingdom of the Middle Congo: 1880–1892 (London: Oxford University Press, 1973; London: Routledge, 2018). Citations refer to the Routledge edition.

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