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Writing and Entrapping Culture
from Part III - Writing, Art, and Kongo Culture
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 February 2023
This chapter discusses how Wabeladio inscribed Mandombe into Kongo culture, giving a centrality to the analysis of the ‘Kongo Road’ song (about a trap), which is where he got the names that he gave to the basic geometric elements of his invention – pakundungu and pelekete – and also how he invented all the other names that make Mandombe sound so Kongo, including the word mandombe itself. It helps the reader understand the structures of plausibility of the invention and why it was so quickly adopted by its publics.
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