Emanuele Ne Vunda

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

Emanuele Ne Vunda - died 1608 - was also known as Antonio Emanuele Ne Vunda, or Antonio Emmanuele Funta, the ambassador from Congo.

Vunda was sent by the King of Congo Alvaro II to Pope Paul V in 1604–1608. Ne-Vunda traveled through Brazil and Spain and reached Rome on 3rd January 1608 but unfortunately died two days later of illness. Africans travelled to the America's and throughout the world and not only on the slave ships as old historiography suggests.

 Bust of the Congolese Ambassador to the Vatican at the Basilica Sainte Marie-Majeure.