The comprehensivekongo graphic writing and other narratives of the signprovides a significant overview of the social religious and historical contexts in which the kongo kingdom developed and spread to the caribbeanauthor barbaro martinez ruiz a practitioner of the palo monte devotional arts illustrates with graphics and rock art how the bakongos ideographic and pictographic signs are used to organize daily life enable interactions between humans and the natural and spiritual worlds . Exploring cultural diffusion and exchange collective memory and identity kongo graphic writing and other narratives of the sign artfully brings together analyses of the complex interconnections among kongo traditions of religion philosophy and visual gestural communication on both sides of the african atlantic world. Exploring cultural diffusion and exchange collective memory and identity kongo graphic writing and other narratives of the sign artfully brings together analyses of the complex interconnections among kongo traditions of religion philosophy and visual gestural communication on both sides of the african atlantic world. Kongo graphic writing and other narratives of the sign january 2013 authors. Kongo graphic writing and other narratives of the sign