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'''''Ngol''''', or '''''Dance de Gaulle''''', was a syncretic messianic sect that emerged in northern [[République du Moyen-Congo|Moyen-Congo]] around 1950.<ref name="p1">Barrett, David B. ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=MzkJAQAAIAAJ Schism and Renewal in Africa; An Analysis of Six Thousand Contemporary Religious Movements]''. Nairobi: Oxford University Press, 1968. pp. 55, 289</ref><ref>Bernault, Florence. ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=mPKpk3bhb3cC&pg=PA190 Démocraties ambiguës en Afrique central: Congo-Brazzaville, Gabon: 1940-1965]''. Paris: Éd. Karthala, 1996. p. 190</ref> The cult organized itself copying the ecclesiastical hierarchy of the mission churches.<ref name="p1"/> The name ''ngol'' was derived from [[Charles de Gaulle]] and the [[Kikongo language|Kikongo]] word 'ngolo' (meaning 'power').<ref name="p1"/>
In a few months it had spread across Moyen-Congo and to southern [[Gabon]].<ref name="p1"/><ref>Thompson, Virginia, and Richard Adloff. ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=xyalAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA44 The emerging states of French Equatorial Africa]''. 1960. pp. 44, 313</ref> The ''ngol'' movement gathered many Bakongo youth, in revolt against tribal elders.<ref name="a1">Le Vine, Victor Theodore. ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=ZVlzpwjhGqgC&pg=PA189 Politics in Francophone Africa]''. Boulder, Colo. [u.a.]: Lynne Rienner, 2004. p. 189</ref> The leaders of the movement were jailed or exiled for engaging in violence, and the movement soon ebbed out. Moreover, the use of the name of de Gaulle caused confusion as he was identified with the French authorities.<ref name="a1"/>
== See also ==
* [[Religion in Gabon]]
* [[Religion in the Republic of the Congo]]
==References==
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