Kasongo Lunda is a territory in the Democratic Republic of Congo, located in
Kwango
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Kasongo Lunda
Kasongo Lunda is a town and seat of Kasongo Lunda Territory, in the Kwango Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
The town lies near the border with Angola to the east, here defined by the Kwango River
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. It is the second biggest territory in Congo, located near to the border with
Angola
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Politics
The traditional title for a local ruler was ''kiamfu'' or ''kyambvu''. During the colonization of Congo in the 1940s, the Kiamfu's represented the political opposition and resistance against Europeans. The heads of the political hierarchy and apparatus of the Kasongo-Lunda have been often forced to flee the area, mainly to the territories of today's Angola.
The territory is divided into Chiefdoms and Sectors:
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Kasa Chiefdom
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Kasongo-Lunda Chiefdom
Kasongo Lunda is a town and seat of Kasongo Lunda Territory, in the Kwango Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
The town lies near the border with Angola to the east, here defined by the Kwango River
The Cuango or Kwango ( pt, Rio C ...
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Kibunda Sector
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Kingulu Sector
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Kizamba Sector
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Mawanga Sector
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Panzi Sector
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Economy
Kasongo Lunda has a number of development problems: the road infrastructure is in a bad condition, because of permanent erosion, the lack of money and political will to change the situation. Another major problem is the shortage of drinking water, and electricity.
As for education, Kasongo Lunda has a good reputation with the famous jesuit N'temo college, which offers secondary education to about 430 students.
[Willame (1973), p. 333]
List of rulers of Kasongo-Lunda
Notes
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References
*Willame, Jean-Claude:
Patriarchal Structures and Factional Politics. Toward an Understanding of the Dualist Society'
Cahiers d'études africaines, Vol. 13, No. 50, pp. 326-355. (1973).
Kasongo Luunda (Yaka)
Territories of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Populated places in Kwango