Kinkanga

House of Kinkanga
House of Nsundi
Kikanga a Mvika kanda
Parent houseHouse of Kilukeni
Country Kingdom of Kongo

Kingdom of Loango

Kingdom of Kakongo

Kingdom of Ngoyo

Kingdom of Ndongo

Kingdom of Vungu
Founded27 April 1622; 402 years ago (27 April 1622)
FounderPedro II
Final rulerGarcia I
Titles
List
  • King of Kongo
  • King of Loango
  • King of Kakongo
  • King of Ngoyo
  • King on this side of the Zaire and beyond it
  • King of Vungu
  • Lord of the Ambundu
  • Lord of Angola
  • Lord of Aquisima
  • Lord of Musuru
  • Lord of Matamba
  • Lord of Malilu
  • Lord of Musuko
  • Lord of Anzizo
  • Lord of the conquest of Pangu-Alumbu
DepositionKingdom of Vungu: 1624 Jaga conquest Kingdom of Kongo: 26 June 1626
Cadet branchesHouse of Kimpanzu

The Kinkanga, usually known as the Kinkanga a Mvika or House of Nsundi, was a royal kanda formed by King Pedro II, which ruled the Kingdom of Kongo from 1622 to 1631. While King Pedro II (ruled 1622–24) and his son Garcia I (ruled 1624–1626) were the only other member of the faction or kanda to rule, it retained powerful members in provincial offices in the 1650s until its destruction in the 1670s. Despite this loss in prominence, they were remembered in tradition and are evoked in a proverb, still current in the 1920s Nkutama a mvila za makanda "Kinlaza, Kimpanzu ye Kinlaza makukwa matatu malambila Kongo" (Kinkanga, Kimpanzu and Kinlaza are the three stones on which Kongo cooked).