Kimpa Vita, born between 1684 and 1686 in Mbanza Kongo (north-west of Angola) and died on July 2, 1706, is a Kongo prophetess (Esikongo ethnicity known as San Salvador by the Portuguese), founder and leader of the Antonianist movement, who fought for the return to Kongo monotheism, and against the slave trade which was rampant within the Kongo kingdom.
At the approach of her twenty years, when she was overwhelmed by the disease, she had a vision and heard a voice that asked her to preach the unity of the kingdom and the restoration of its greatness, to lead the people and to to raise the ruins of the capital.
(At the beginning of the eighteenth century, the Kongo kingdom was torn apart by a civil war)
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