The Passion of Kimpa Vita

By Jemadari VI-Bee-Kil Kilele

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.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Trafford Publishing
• Release date: Jan 18, 2019
• ISBN: 9781490789088

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

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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

Reviews for The Passion of Kimpa Vita

[Annette Hopgood · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

I enjoyed reading this article. By writing the story in the format of a play, it allowed the me to be more connected to what was transpiring. It is so amazing and heartbreaking how deception can cause the downfall of a people. Very well written.