Kasongo Lunda Territory
   HOME

TheInfoList



OR:

Kasongo Lunda is a territory in the Democratic Republic of Congo, located in
Kwango Kwango is a province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It's one of the 21 provinces created in the 2015 repartitioning. Kwango, Kwilu, and Mai-Ndombe provinces are the result of the dismemberment of the former Bandundu province. Kwa ...
Province. The capital lies at Kasongo Lunda. It is the second biggest territory in Congo, located near to the border with
Angola , national_anthem = " Angola Avante"() , image_map = , map_caption = , capital = Luanda , religion = , religion_year = 2020 , religion_ref = , coordina ...
.


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: * Kasa Chiefdom * Kasongo-Lunda Chiefdom * Kibunda Sector * Kingulu Sector * Kizamba Sector * Mawanga Sector * Panzi Sector * Swa Tenda Sector


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

{{Reflist


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