Momboares

Momboares was the Portuguese name for the Seven Kingdoms of Kongo dia Nlaza, a confederation of Bantu polities on the Kwale River. In 1337 its kingdoms, including Mpangu, were independent of Kongo.

In the sixteenth century Kongo expanded eastward through Mbata and absorbed the confederation, whose rulers' titles entered those of the Manikongo. The Jesuit Mateus Cardoso later described its weaving: in the seventeenth century the region exported around a hundred thousand metres of raphia cloth a year to Luanda.