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    The Passion of Kimpa Vita
    The Passion of Kimpa Vita
    The Passion of Kimpa Vita
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    The Passion of Kimpa Vita

    By Jemadari VI-Bee-Kil Kilele

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    Kimpa Vita is a rejected stone that should become the builder’s head cornerstone in the modern era.

    Kilele is remolding an intentionally forgotten page of a Kongolese, say an African history, told by a conqueror to please their desire but is now rewritten by Africans themselves, as predicted by the late Patrice E. Lumumba.

    Greater than the French Joan of Arc, Kimpa Vita rejects Western religious alienation, domination, and spiritual formatting—a radical stance misjudged by the Western catholic priests who conspire with the naive locals to get her and her son burned at the stake.

    As an African martyr and heroine, Kimpa Vita, through her passion, as recounted by Jemadari Vi-Bee-Kil Kilele, remains a realistic tale to tell to the world’s generations at large, in order to expose false and imposed Western religions.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTrafford Publishing
    Release dateJan 18, 2019
    ISBN9781490789088
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    The Passion of Kimpa Vita - Jemadari VI-Bee-Kil Kilele

    Copyright 2019 Jemadari Vi-Bee-Kil Kilele.

    All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the written prior permission of the author.

    ISBN: 978-1-4907-8812-8 (sc)

    ISBN: 978-1-4907-8811-1 (hc)

    ISBN: 978-1-4907-8908-8 (e)

    Library of Congress Control Number: 2018939467

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    The only duty we owe to History is to re-write it.

    [Oscar Wilde]

    PREFACE

    The true tale has finally unfolded, worthy to be told to all African countries that live in fear, bondage and poverty that were created by the albinos for the zeal to exploit, plunder, steal and lie to the Africans.

    Wake up Africa; make time to read this book.

    Ndoti Alex Nyirenda.0

    Principal of Sheikh Anta Diop College

    Johannesburg

    RSA

    Brilliant work that engulfs a reader to forget everything on his/her daily programme, but to nurture a desire to finish reading.

    Joseph Munthale Chinombo

    Head of Languages @ Sheikh Anta Diop College

    CONTENTS

    ACT I

    SCENE 1

    SCENE 2

    ACT II

    SCENE 1

    SCENE 2

    SCENE 3

    ACT III

    SCENE 1

    SCENE 2

    ACT IV

    SCENE 1

    SCENE 2

    SCENE 3

    LIST OF CHARACTERS

    Nusamu a Mvemba Ne Kongo (alias King Pedro IV): King of a Kongo splinter kingdom, seating at Mbanza Kongo (also called Kimbangu), the capital city.

    Courtiers

    Guards

    Kinzonzi(King’s male advisor No 1)

    Kaluseko(King Pedro’s male advisor No 2)

    Kimpa Vita a Nkanga Mwana Kongo: a female patriot in the Kongo Kingdom who opposes the coming and the spread of Christianism in their kingdom.

    Panzu (King’s male advisor No 3)

    Ndompetelo (King’s male Advisor 4)

    Ndombasi (King’s male advisor No 5)

    Ndomanweno (King’s male advisor No 6)

    Porters

    Nzuzi a Ntamba alias King Joao II: King of a Kongo splinter kingdom headquartered at Mbwila, as capital city.

    Ngamusolo: King Joao’s male Advisor No 1

    Kamunu Ko: King Joao’s male advisor No 2

    Mbamba: King Joao’s male advisor No 3

    Kulula: King Joao’s male advisor no 4

    The Crowd

    6 Persons from the mob.

    Some women

    Father Bernardo da Galo

    Father Lorenzo da Lucca

    Father Don Diego

    Father Montana

    Father Rodriguez

    Black Soldiers

    Villagers

    Mundabi: A body guard at King Pedro’s palace.

    Elder Ndonsimau

    Elder Ndongalo

    Elder Muteta Nteta

    Elder Mupompa

    Elder Ntinu Wene

    The Village mourners

    ACT I

    SCENE 1

    [King Antonio I has just been killed in the battle of Mbwila(Ulanga) in 1665. A civil war ensues, tearing the Kongo Kingdom apart and forcing the populations to abandon the ancient capital of Sao Salvador (Mbanza Kongo). The war triggers the division of the kingdom. After the dislocation of the Kongo kingdom, many breakaway kingdoms are born and new pretenders/kings to the throne occupy swathes of land that they set to administer with some loyalists. One of the new kings is Nusamu a Mvemba Ne Kongo alias Pedro IV of the House of Nsudi at Kibangu, east of Mbanza Kongo, the old capital city. This noble royal House has been in conflict with another royal House of Kwilu; both fighting over the kingship. Kings from the Kwilu House are baptized the Alvaro. From this lineage comes King Nimi a Lukeni a Nzenze a Ntumba; his arc-rival. The young Kimpa Vita, much concerned about the disintegration of the kingdom, the Christian alienation of her folks by Catholic missionaries and the continuous slave trade, decides to pay a courtesy visit to the new king Pedro IV Nusamu a Mvemba, of the splinter kingdom, pleading for the reunification of the glorious and mighty Kongo kingdom. Given her supplications, Kimpa was rebuffed by the king. Disappointed, she then decides to go and meet his rival Nzuzi a Ntamba alias Joao II, at his fortified mountainous palace of Lemba (also known as Mbwila), just south of the Congo River…King Nusamu a Mvemba Ne Kongo alias Pedro IV. Pedro is seated on a throne, in his case, made of wood inlaid with ivory. On the walls hang images of Jesus Christ and that of some western saints. A Bible is laying aside. He is illiterate. He carries a zebra-tail whip symbolizing his authority, wears a four-cornered raphia hat, has the skins and heads of baby animals suspended from his belts, and wears a small cap. He wears bangles, and copper anklets. He is surrounded by a couple of attendants and body guards standing behind him. All the court attendants are dressed in clothes woven out of fibres stripped from the leaves of the raffia palm tree.]

    [Enter a guard who bows]:

    Honour to his Majesty Nusamu a Mvemba, Ne Kongo, the living God.

    King Pedro

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