Cabinda

Cabinda on the Atlantic coast north of the Congo River encompassed several kingdoms, including Ngoyo, a Woyo state with its capital at Mbanza Ngoyo. In the 1630s Soyo invaded Ngoyo and installed the son of its ruler as king.

By 1700 the port of Cabinda was a major centre of the slave trade. Ngoyo and neighbouring Kakongo destroyed a Portuguese fort in 1783, but Ngoyo's kingship collapsed in the 1830s after its nobles failed to elect a successor.