Nsudi

Nsudi was a small Kongo kingdom on the Inkisi River, with its capital near Mbanza Nsundi. It was one of the seven kingdoms of Kongo dia Nlaza and ruled smaller sub-provinces.

Kongo conquered Nsudi probably in the first half of the fifteenth century and often granted it to the heir apparent. Mvemba a Nzinga held it before becoming King Afonso I in 1507. Duke Manuel Jordão made and unmade kings from 1624 to 1628. After the Battle of Mbwila in 1665, Kimpanzu dukes made Nsudi virtually independent; their line dwindled by the 1830s.