Ancient history

Cuba | historical kingdom, Africa

Cuba , former African kingdom inside the Democratic Republic of the Congo , is bordered by the Kasai and Lulua rivers to the southwest and the river to the north Sankuru River , a tributary of the Kasai. It was built around 1600 by migrants from the lower Kasai River founded and was actually a federation of smaller, almost autonomous States like Bushongo and Ngongo.

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In the 19th century, uprisings in the east and Lulua invasions in the south weakened Cuba until civil war. Around 1910, the colonial regime expanded the Belgian Congo gained control of the territory and quelled the unrest, empowering the Cuban kings by excluding lesser officials and rivals were.