House of Kinkanga House of Nsundi Kikanga a Mvika kanda | |
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Parent house | House of Kilukeni |
Country | Kingdom of Kongo Kingdom of Vungu |
Founded | 27 April 1622 |
Founder | Pedro II |
Final ruler | Garcia I |
Titles | |
Deposition | Kingdom of Vungu: 1624 Jaga conquest Kingdom of Kongo: 26 June 1626 |
Cadet branches | House 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).