Nkuna is the pre-colonial name most usually allowed of Brazzaville, capital of the République of Congo.

The banks of the Pool carried about 1880 the name of Nkuna-Ntamo; more by convention of the first explorers that by heritage, one associates the name of Nkuna to Northern bank where the French station of Brazzaville between 1880 and 1884 was installed. This " fondation" was not really one: on this site existed already several important pre-colonial boroughs forming a discontinuous agglomeration certainly, but undoubtedly populated several thousands of inhabitants. It is mainly about Mpila towards the current port of Yoro, of Okila towards the School of the Painters of Poto-Poto, of Mfa or Mfoa towards the Central Town hall, of Mbama to the point Bacongo, of Maya-Maya in the place of the air terminal… These boroughs directed by vassal of king de Mbé of the Teke, Makoko Iloo, lived trade with the High-River: besides the king took a tax of 50% on the trade of the ivory. Local architecture is well-known for us: the last pre-colonial boxes disappeared from Mpila about 1955 only. They were semi-cylindrical structures in raffia finely braided opened by a single door. In 1884 the vassal person in charge of the site was Nguia, chief of Mfa, whose slaves placed in 17 traditional boxes located at the site of the Palais of the People (presidential palace). It should be noted that of 1880 to 1882, the person in charge of the station of Nkuna, which was going to become Brazzaville, was the Senegalese Malamine. The first " dirigeant" of Brazzaville was thus a Black, in which Brazza had any confidence and estimates. On this subject, to see work of Roger Frey (1954, 1980), Herve Brisset (control, Poitiers, 1988).