How to Use Kongo in a Sentence

Kongo

noun
  • Its largest warship at the time, the Kongo, had to be outsourced to British shipyards, for example.
    — Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 7 May 2026
  • Yet perhaps most strikingly, Kongo never met or spoke with the collectors themselves.
    — Y-Jean Mun-Delsalle, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026
  • Indeed, the word macandal comes from two possible Kongo roots, mak(w)onda (amulet) or makanda (a packet of something wrapped in a leaf).
    — Literary Hub, 5 Jan. 2026
  • He was born into the Ndongo royal lineage in the Kingdom of Kongo, where many had adopted Catholicism.
    — Laurent Dubois, The Atlantic, 6 Jan. 2026
  • Eleven percent came from West-Central Africa, incorporating folks from the Kongo kingdom and modern Gabon.
    — Mankaprr Conteh, Rolling Stone, 23 Aug. 2025
  • Known for transforming urban graffiti into collectible fine art, Kongo approached the Black Badge Cullinan as a moving canvas.
    — Matthew MacConnell, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026
  • Cyril Kongo has built an unlikely but compelling bridge between street art and the luxury automotive industry, transforming some of the world’s most exclusive vehicles into collectible works of art.
    — Matthew MacConnell, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026
  • Dedicated studio spaces were created within the facility so Kongo could paint interior components by hand with airbrushes, brushes, and sponges.
    — Matthew MacConnell, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026
  • What separates this project from traditional luxury automotive collaborations is the degree to which Kongo was embedded in the Rolls-Royce design process.
    — Matthew MacConnell, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026
  • Relations with Angola soon soured and then worsened when Angola’s governor briefly invaded southern Kongo in 1622.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, 2 Apr. 2026
  • Every Black Badge Cullinan by Cyril Kongo is finished in Blue Crystal over Black and features a gradient coachline—another first for the marque.
    — Matthew MacConnell, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026
  • By gathering second- and thirdhand traces and elusive sources and data, historians have illuminated communities in the forests of the Kongo region, the deltas of West Africa, the mangroves of Cuba, and the swamps of the Carolinas.
    — Laurent Dubois, The Atlantic, 6 Jan. 2026
  • Through Kongo’s intervention, the Cullinan evolves from luxury SUV into collectible contemporary artwork, blurring the boundaries between automotive craftsmanship, design and fine art.
    — Matthew MacConnell, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026
  • The marque has unveiled five bespoke Black Badge Cullinan commissions featuring interiors individually hand-painted by Kongo, whose vivid visual language has become synonymous with the intersection of luxury, street culture and contemporary art.
    — Matthew MacConnell, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026
  • Best known for his roots in Paris’ underground graffiti scene of the 1980s, Kongo has since collaborated with marquee automotive brands including Porsche, bringing his signature bursts of color, layered typography and urban energy to bespoke commissions.
    — Matthew MacConnell, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026
  • By Cyril Kongo Rolls-Royce Motor Cars has long treated the automobile as an art form, but its latest collaboration with French graffiti pioneer Cyril Kongo pushes that philosophy into entirely new territory.
    — Matthew MacConnell, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026
  • Introduced to Rolls-Royce in 2022 through S&S Group, a Vietnamese conglomerate of companies operating in the luxury, real estate, automotive, arts and fashion industries, Kongo became the first artist ever embedded within the brand’s Goodwood factory.
    — Y-Jean Mun-Delsalle, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026
  • Created as one of several projects marking the 10th anniversary of the Black Badge family—first introduced with the Rolls-Royce Black Badge Ghost in 2016—Black Badge Cullinan by Cyril Kongo transforms Rolls-Royce’s most rebellious model into a fully immersive contemporary artwork.
    — Y-Jean Mun-Delsalle, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026

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