Come home to Kongo · Enter the House

Join the House.
Take your place in the lineage.

The Nzo a Nkisi ya Ngudi a Nkama is a living house and a mutual-aid confraternity — the cofradía our people kept for four hundred years: pooling the small offerings of its members to teach them, to raise them, and to carry one another through sickness, want, and the grave. Under one Source, Nzambi a Mpungu.

Begin at the threshold for the price of a meal. Stand as a full member of the house when you are ready.

The threshold

Seeker at the Door

free · come and see
Free
  • The open teachings & the audiobook of the Teaching
  • The first Sunday lesson each month
  • Word of the gatherings of the order
The entry · most begin here

Seeker

Mukuikiila · the one who draws near
$9 / month
  • Every Sunday lesson — the weekly teaching, in full
  • The monthly live seminar with the house
  • The members' reading room & the canon library
  • The Dikenga practice from the free threshold inward
Full member · the Confraternity

The House

Mwisi-Nzo · of the house
$25 / month
  • Everything in Seeker, and —
  • The weekly rite & your standing in the lineage
  • The mutual-aid fund: sickness, burial & welfare benefits
  • Member-only canon & ritual texts
  • A vote in the Cabildo of the community council
Patron of the caja

House Patron

N'kwa-luvila · upholder
$55 / month
  • Everything in The House, and —
  • Patron of the mutual-aid fund — you carry the sick & the poor
  • Full access to the School (the Twelve Mulongo)
  • Standing at the nsinsani & named in the house roll
Pillar of the house · N'twadisi

House Pillar

N'twadisi · the one who bears it up
$111 / month
  • Everything in House Patron, and —
  • A named pillar of the house & the founding roll
  • Entry to the Initiation Order cohort
  • A consecrated ritual edition of the Nkanda Ukisi
  • Counsel-standing with the N'twadisi of the order
Beyond the dues

The nsinsani

freewill offering · the share of increase
Give as you can
  • The reciprocal, freewill offering of our heritage
  • Goes wholly to the common fund — the sick, the poor, the dead
  • Honour the house at any tier, one time or recurring
Why a confraternity

Your dues do not vanish into a collection plate.

For four centuries the Kongo cofradía pooled the small offerings of its members into a common chest — the caja — to bury its dead with honour, nurse its sick, relieve its poor, and buy the freedom of those still held. The House restores that engine. This is not charity you receive; it is a house you build, and that builds you.

It carries you

Sickness, burial, and welfare benefits for members and their dependants — the historic burial-society function, restored.

It raises you

The Sunday teaching, the school, bursaries and instruction for members, their children, and the youth of the community.

It binds you

Mutual-credit, savings circles, and the nsinsani — a people provisioning its own needs, beholden to no one.

"They pooled the small offerings of their members into a common chest — to bury their dead with honour, and to purchase the freedom of those still held."