Igor Matonda

Biographic Data

ID72613
NAMEIgor Matonda
GIVEN NAMESIgor
FAMILY NAMEMatonda
SIGNATUREMATONDA I
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Kinshasa
ORCID0000-0002-9428-7705
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS21
TOTAL CITATIONS47
AUTHOR COUNT21
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2015
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX3

  • Les lacs Tumba et Maï-Ndombe dans la cartographie européenne du 16 e –18 e siècle

    Open AccessIgor MatondaARTICLEThe Journal of African History2026

    Dans cet article, nous abordons la connaissance géographique de l’Afrique centrale aux 16 e –18 e siècles. Notre attention est portée sur les références aux lacs Zembre et Zaïre dans les sources écrites et cartographiques des 16 e et 17 e siècles. L’hypothèse avancée ici est qu’il s’agirait des lacs Tumba et Maï-Ndombe (ex-“Léopold II”) situés en amont de la région comprise entre le fleuve Congo et le Bas-Kasaï, en République démocratique du Cong…

  • Towards an Oral History of Kwilu-Kasai Peoples

    Open AccessIsidore Ndaywel È Nziem, Igor MatondaCHAPTERAn Archaeology of the Bantu…2025

    This chapter examines the oral historical traditions of the Kwilu-Kasai region in Central Africa and their role in reconstructing the area's social and political history. It addresses the complexities of using oral traditions as historical sources and assess their value in complementing archaeological, linguistic, and genetic data. Oral histories of Kwilu-Kasai peoples history refer to multiple waves of migration with traditions indicating northe…

  • Ka old evidence of pressure flaking in the Congo basin, Democratic Republic of Congo

    Open AccessIsis Isabella Mesfin, Peter R Coutros et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science2025Cited by: 1References: 40

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  • Slavery Legacy in the Congo Basin

    Noemie Arazi, Igor Matonda et al.CHAPTERRoutledge Handbook of Critical…2024

    In the Congo Basin, a vast area between the Gulf of Guinea and the Great Lakes region, the trade in enslaved people spans multiple histories with complex geographical networks, different time frames, and a multitude of internal and external actors. Stimulated by UNESCO's slave route project, the different countries that are wholly or partially situated within the Congo Basin have increasingly engaged with the material and immaterial heritage of s…

  • The beginning of the Iron Age south of the Congo rainforest

    Peter R Coutros, Igor Matonda et al.ARTICLEAzania Archaeological Research in…2024Cited by: 2References: 53

    Archaeological investigations of the Idiofa region in the Kwilu Province of the Democratic Republic of Congo have yielded the earliest evidence for iron production, combined with ceramics and lithic artefacts, south of the Congo rainforest during the second century BC. Palaeoecological data show that the producers of this industry did not settle in open grasslands but in a habitat where the forests had started to undergo climate-induced degradati…

  • Kasongo-Tongoni

    Noemie Arazi, Igor Matonda et al.ARTICLEAzania Archaeological Research in…2024References: 23

    This article is devoted to the identification and preliminary archaeological research of Kasongo-Tongoni, an important caravan settlement located in the east of Central Africa to the west of Lake Tanganyika. Along with Kabambare and Nyangwe, this site was one of the main trading centres on the central caravan route linking the interior of Central Africa to the coast of East Africa during the second half of the nineteenth century. We discuss the c…

  • Préhistoire de l'Afrique de l'Ouest et du Centre

    Open AccessIsis Isabella Mesfin, Djibril Thiam et al.ARTICLEL Anthropologie2023References: 46

  • History, archaeology and memory of the Swahili-Arab in the Maniema, Democratic Republic of Congo

    Open AccessNoemie Arazi, Suzanne Bigohe et al.ARTICLEAntiquity2020Cited by: 4References: 1

    A research project focused on the cultural heritage of the Swahili-Arab in the Democratic Republic of Congo has confirmed the location of their former settlement in Kasongo, one of the westernmost trading entrepôts in a network of settlements connecting Central Africa with Zanzibar. This project represents the first time archaeological investigations, combined with oral history and archival data, have been used to understand the Swahili-Arab lega…

  • L'identité des Pamzoallumbu ou Pangelungus du royaume Kongo

    Open AccessIgor MatondaARTICLECahiers d études africaines2020Cited by: 1References: 10

    Cet article cherche à contester l’interprétation de François Bontinck qui proposa en 1980 une relation entre le terme « Pamzelunguos » et l’ethnonyme Basolongo en postulant que la rébellion de 1491 des soi-disant « Mundequetes », sous le roi Zinga Kuwu, était le fait de ces fameux « Pamzelunguos », ennemis du roi Affonso 1er. Notre point de vue, après avoir approfondi cette question, est que les auteurs des deux rebellions ne seraient pas les mêm…

  • Kitala Ware

    Open AccessBernard Clist, Mandela Kaumba et al.ARTICLEAfrican Archaeological Review2019Cited by: 3References: 16

  • Fouilles et prospections entre Kisantu et le fleuve Congo

    Bernard Clist, Els Cranshof et al.CHAPTERArchéologie des Provinces…2018

    Bernard Clist, Els Cranshof, Pierre de Maret, Mandela Kaumba, Roger Kidebua, Igor Matonda, Alphonse Nkanza Lutayi, Jeanine Yogolelo, Fouilles et prospections entre Kisantu et le fleuve Congo, Une archéologie des provinces septentrionales du royaume Kongo, pp. 133-162

  • Fouilles et prospections à l’ouest de l’Inkisi, région de Ngongo Mbata

    Bernard Clist, Els Cranshof et al.CHAPTERArchéologie des Provinces…2018

    Bernard Clist, Els Cranshof, Mandela Kaumba, Igor Matonda, Alphonse Nkanza Lutayi, Fouilles et prospections à l’ouest de l’Inkisi, région de Ngongo Mbata, Une archéologie des provinces septentrionales du royaume Kongo, pp. 71-132

  • Fouilles et prospections dans le territoire de Mbanza Ngungu

    Bernard Clist, Els Cranshof et al.CHAPTERArchéologie des Provinces…2018

    Bernard Clist, Els Cranshof, Mandela Kaumba, Igor Matonda, Roger Kidebua, Clément Mambu, Fouilles et prospections dans le territoire de Mbanza Ngungu, Une archéologie des provinces septentrionales du royaume Kongo, pp. 181-188

  • Fouilles et prospections dans le territoire de Songololo

    Bernard Clist, Els Cranshof et al.CHAPTERArchéologie des Provinces…2018

  • Fouilles et prospections dans le territoire de Tshela

    Bernard Clist, Igor Matonda et al.CHAPTERArchéologie des Provinces…2018

  • Les provinces septentrionales du royaume Kongo d’après les sources historiques

    Igor Matonda, I BrinkmanCHAPTERArchéologie des Provinces…2018

  • Fouilles et prospections à l’est de l’Inkisi

    Bernard Clist, Els Cranshof et al.CHAPTERArchéologie des Provinces…2018

  • The Eastern Border of the Kongo Kingdom

    Open AccessIgor MatondaCHAPTERKongo Kingdom2018

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  • African-European Contacts in the Kongo Kingdom (Sixteenth-Eighteenth Centuries)

    Open AccessBernard Clist, Els Cranshof et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2015Cited by: 16References: 37

  • The Elusive Archaeology of Kongo Urbanism

    Open AccessBernard Clist, Els Cranshof et al.ARTICLEAfrican Archaeological Review2015Cited by: 20References: 32

  • The KongoKing Project

    Bernard Clist, Els Cranshof et al.

    In order to understand the origins of the Kongo kingdom, the KongoKing research group conducted a first survey in the area usually regarded as the former kingdom’s provincial capital sites of Mbanza Nsundi and Mbanza Mbata in the Lower Congo Province of the DRC during the summer of 2012. Several test excavations and radiocarbon dates are starting to shed some light on the last five centuries in the area.