Lunda
Lunda , ethnic group of central Africa. The Lunda speak a Bantu language and now live in S Congo (Kinshasa), E Angola, and N Zambia. In the 16th cent. Lunda living near the upper Lulua and Kasai rivers assimilated political ideas from the Luba (especially regarding divine kingship and bureaucratic administration) and formed a kingdom ruled by the mwata yamvo, or king. The kingdom grew powerful, partly through trade (especially for firearms) with the Portuguese in Angola, and by the 18th cent. had expanded to include most of the area between the Kwango and Luangwa rivers. At the same time, dissident Lunda migrated eastward; some of them founded the kingdom of the Mwata Kazembe, centered near the Luapula River, which was a flourishing trading state in the period from the late 18th to the early 19th cent. Both kingdoms declined with the establishment of European rule in the late 19th cent.
Bibliography: See J. Vansina, Kingdoms of the Savanna (1966).
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The Kingdom of Kazembe: History and Politics in North-Eastern Zambia and Katanga to 1950
Magazine article from: African Studies Review; 12/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...eighteenth century, a Lunda royal, "Mwata Kazembe," established a centralized state...Belgian colonial administrations; Mwata Kazembe became one of the more influential...direction of the "modernizing" king, Mwata Kazembe XIV, in the 1940s. It was further...
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Asserting/inventing traditions on the Luapula: the Lunda Mutomboko Festival.
Magazine article from: African Arts; 9/22/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...the July 29, 1961, installment of Mwata Kazembe XVII Paul Kanyembo Lutaba and the weekend...year, and the focus of the event was Mwata Kazembe XVIII Munona Chinyanta, who had been...lucrative few days during Mutomboko. Mwata Kazembe XVIII and Lunda Life In July 1997...
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A crown on the move: stylistic integration of the Luba-Lunda complex in Lunda-Kazembe performance.
Magazine article from: African Arts; 9/22/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...zebra-hide litter above the heads of a throbbing crowd, Mwata Kazembe XIX gloriously stretches out his arms as if to embrace a...current Lunda-Kazembe Senior Chief in the Luapula valley, Mwata Kazembe XIX, referred to by local residents simply as Mwata...
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Zambia: RB promises to tackle poverty in Luapula.
News Wire article from: TendersInfo; 10/10/2008; 700+ words
; ...the opportunity to officially launch the levy Mwanawasa Bridge across the Luapula River. I am proud that I have the opportunity to open the bridge across the Luapula River which is the brain child of late President Mwanawasa. Mr. Banda said...
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700 More Zairean Refugees Arrive in Zambia's
Newspaper article from: Xinhua English Newswire; 4/4/1997; 323 words
; ...monitoring the situation. "We need more vehicles and boats for those patrolling the Luapula River but we are doing our best with the limited resources," the province minister said. The Luapula River is a border river between Zambia and Zaire.
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ZAMBIA-POLITICS: SHOW ME YOUR FAMILY TREE
News Wire article from: Inter Press Service English News Wire; 10/13/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...chief in another country. For example, some communities in southern Zaire fall under the rule of a Zambian chief called Mwata Kazembe. There are villages in eastern Zambia that have Chief Mbeya, a Malawian, as their traditional ruler. And some Malawians...
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David M. Gordon, Nachituti's Gift: economy, society, and environment in Central Africa.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Africa; 9/22/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...narrative and social agency' (p. 29), Gordon discusses how this complex history of relations between the conquering Mwata Kazembe and Nachituti's people (autochthonous clans generically labelled 'Shila') are remembered and retold in the context...
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Zambia's traditional leaders advised to observe human rights
News Wire article from: Xinhua News Agency; 9/15/2006; 450 words
; ...the community. Malila noted that the whipping of two Movement for Multiparty Democracy (MMD) cadres by Paramount Chief Mwata Kazembe of the Lunda people earlier this week resurrected the need for the country to re- examine traditional practices that conflict...
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16 BARGE VICTIMS LOCATED; TOLL PUT AT 390
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 7/8/1987; ; 584 words
; HARARE, Zimbabwe - Rescue teams recovered 16 more bodies yesterday from the crocodile-populated Luapula River, and officials now say they fear that as many as 390 passengers died Sunday in the sinking of a river barge there. The barge...
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Nachituti's Gift: Economy, Society and Environment in Central Africa
Magazine article from: The International Journal of African Historical Studies; 1/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...understandings of and strategizing around resource use and ownership. In the oral tradition of the people living in the Luapula river valley south of Lake Mweru, in the late eighteenth century, Nachituti was the sister of a local Shila ruler, Nkuba. After...
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Lunda
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures
Lunda ETHNONYMS: Akosa, Aluunda, Aruund, Eastern Lunda, Imbangala, Ishindi Lunda, Kanongesha Lunda, Kazembe Mutanda Lunda, Luapula Lunda, Lunda-Kazembe (Cazembe), Lunda-Ndembu, Luunda, Musokantanda Lunda, Ndembu, Northern Lunda...
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Bemba
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures Supplement
...Bisa, Chishinga, Kunda, Lala, Lamba Lunda, Ng'umbo, Swaka, Tabwa, or Unga...probably refers to a migration of Luba or Lunda chiefs that occurred before 1700. Before...similar to those found after the Luba/Lunda conquest. They had settled in the area...
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Ndembu
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures
Ndembu ETHNONYMS: Lunda, Southern Lunda Orientation Identification. The Ndembu constitute the southern arm of the ancient empire of the Lunda in the Congo. Their domain was trisected in 1905 by the territorial...
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Pende
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures
...neighbors, to the south, the Sonde, Lunda, and Cokwe; and, to the east, along...Fleeing from slave raids carried out by Lunda chiefs like Mwata Kombana, their neighbor...European colonists ended hostilities and any Lunda claim of suzerainty. Certain elements...
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Moïse Kapenda Tshombe
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...in his traditional milieu, that of the Lunda (Aruund). Mo ï se Tshombe himself...daughter of the Mwantayaav (emperor) of the Lunda, and his uncle and brother were subsequently...really began in November 1958, when the Lunda tribal association (Gassomel), of which...
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