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Afonso II
Mwene Kongo
ReignNovember – December 1665
PredecessorAntónio I
SuccessorÁlvaro VII
SpouseAna Afonso de Leão
DynastyKimpanzu dynasty
MotherSuzana de Nóbrega

Afonso II of Kongo and Nkondo was a ruler of the kingdom of Kongo in the period following the Kongo Civil War. He was a member of the House of Kimpanzu and may have been supported in his claim for the throne by partisans in Soyo. He took the throne in November 1665 in the first of a series of power grabs for the throne of the kingdom.

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