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Mbunda Lukwakwa
Mbunda Lukwakwa Traditional Ceremony is celebrated by the Mbunda under Senior Chief Sikufele, during the first week of October every year at Manyinga of Kabompo District in North Western Zambia. Meaning The ceremony commemorates the Mbunda conquests as they fought alongside the Aluyi in support of Prince Mubukwanu, one of the sons of the Aluyi King Mulambwa.''Encyclopedia of the Peoples of Africa and Middle East'', Facts On File library of world history, Facts On File, Incorporated, Social Science, Infobase Publishing, 2009, {{ISBN, 143812676X, 9781438126760 It also gives thanks to their Creator the Almighty God for the blessings on them in providing good harvest the past months according to His Love. Celebration duration and activities The ceremony is celebrated over three days. On the first day, from late in the evening, all the way throughout the night, men sing and dance at the Mukanda circumcision camp, in preparation for the resurrection of the Makishi from the graveyard ...
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Mbunda People
The Mbunda or Vambunda (singular ''Kambunda'', adjective and language ''Mbunda'', ''Mbúùnda'' or ''Chimbúùnda'') are a Bantu people who, during the Bantu migrations, came from the north to south-eastern Angola and finally Barotseland, now part of Zambia. Their core is at present found in the south-east of Angola from the Lunguevungu river in Moxico to the Cuando Cubango Province. The Vambunda comprise a number of subgroups, each of which speaks its own dialect: Mbunda Mathzi (''Katavola''), Yauma, Nkangala, Mbalango, Sango, Shamuka (''Chiyengele'') and Ndundu, all of them alive in southeast Angola.Bantu-Languages.com
citing Maniacky 1997


Origins

According to the oral tradition of the Vambunda, the first monarch of the

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List Of Mbunda Chiefs In Zambia
Mbunda people started migrating to Barotseland now Western Province of Zambia in the latter part of the 18th Century. The first Mbunda Chiefs to migrate were Chief Mundu of the Mbalango language, followed by his nephew Chief Kandala Viemba and then King Chitengi Chingumbe Chiyengele, in frustration after his succession to his father's throne, in opposition to the Mbunda custom of a nephew. The three were all received by the Aluyi King Mulambwa.Bantu-Languages.com
citing Maniacky 1997
Most of the Mbunda chiefs started migrating at the beginning of the 20th century due to the Mbunda people, Mbunda resistance to Portuguese colonial occupation, when the Portuguese colonialists abducted the twenty first (21st) Mbunda Monarch, King Mwene Mbandu Kapova I of Mbunda, Mwene Mbandu I Lyondthzi Kapova.René Pélissier, ...
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Mbunda Lukwakwa Symbolic Fence
Mbunda may refer to: * Mbunda Kingdom (c. 1500–1917) * Mbunda language * Mbunda people The Mbunda or Vambunda (singular ''Kambunda'', adjective and language ''Mbunda'', ''Mbúùnda'' or ''Chimbúùnda'') are a Bantu people who, during the Bantu migrations, came from the north to south-eastern Angola and finally Barotseland, now p ...
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Mbunda Kingdom
The Mbunda Kingdom (Mbunda language, Mbunda: or or ), sometimes called the Kingdom of Angola or Mbundaland, was an African kingdom located in western central Africa, in what is now southeast Angola. At its greatest extent, it reached from Mithimoyi in central Moxico Province, Moxico to the Cuando Cubango Province in the southeast, bordering Namibia. Politics and government The Mbunda Kingdom used a traditional rule system similar to other nations of its era. The entire kingdom was ruled by one king who has come from a royal family. The king exercised absolute authority so their decision was carried out without question. The king's role was to legislate the laws and govern the communities. The king ruled the whole kingdom, however, the small chiefdom, chiefdoms and localities within the kingdom were also able to legislate their own laws. History Establishment The Mbunda tribe left what is now South Sudan around the year 1400 due to a poor climate. They began to move through ma ...
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Mbunda Language
Mbunda is a Bantu language of Angola and Zambia. There are several dialects: Katavola, Yauma, Nkangala, Mbalango, Sango, Ciyengele ("Shamuka"), and Ndundu, all of which are closely related. Mbunda was one of six languages selected by the ''Instituto de Línguas Nacionais'' (National Languages Institute) for an initial phase to establish spelling rules in 1980 to facilitate teaching in schools and promoting its use. Sounds Mbunda is similar to Luchazi, but has some differences in the consonants. Among other differences, where Luchazi has , Mbunda has . Where Luchazi has , Mbunda has dental . Vowels Like other languages in eastern Angola and Zambia, Mbunda language has five contrastive vowels: Consonants Voiced plosives only occur as prenasalized stops, where they contrast with aspirated plosives. Otherwise only tenuis plosives are found in Mbunda. Orthography Population Mbunda is spoken by the Mbunda people of the Moxico Province and Cuando Cubango Province of An ...
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List Of The Rulers Of The Mbunda Kingdom
The following is a complete list of rulers of the Mbunda Kingdom, established in the southeast of present-day Angola, covering Moxico and Cuando Cubango Provinces. Early monarchs Mbunda Kingdom in south-eastern Angola Migration to Moxico and Cuando Cubango Gallery File:King Mwene Mbandu Lyondthzi Kapova I.jpg, King Mbandu I Lyondthzi Kapova, the 21st Monarch File:King Mwene Kathzungo Xaanda of The Mbunda.jpg, King Mbandu II Kathzungo Xaanda, the 22nd Monarch File:His Majesty, King Mbandu Lifuti III.jpg, King Mwene Mbandu III Mbandu Lifuti at His coronation in 2008 See also *Mbunda Kingdom *Mbunda language *Mbunda people *List of Mbunda Chiefs in Zambia References Further reading * Abshire, D.M. and Michael Samuels, eds, Angola Handbook, London, 1965, * Bull, M.M. Bulozi Under the Luyana Kings, London, 1973] * Davidson, Basil, In the Eye of the Storm: Angola's People, New York, 1973, * Duffy, J. Portuguese West Africa, Cambridge, 1961, * White, C.M.N. Notes on the ...
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Culture Of Zambia
Zambia, officially the Republic of Zambia, is a landlocked country at the crossroads of Central Africa, Central, Southern Africa, Southern and East Africa. It is typically referred to being in South-Central Africa or Southern Africa. It is bordered to the north by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tanzania to the north-east, Malawi to the east, Mozambique to the southeast, Zimbabwe and Botswana to the south, Namibia to the southwest, and Angola to the west. The capital city of Zambia is Lusaka, located in the south-central part of Zambia. The population is concentrated mainly around Lusaka in the south and the Copperbelt Province to the north, the core economic hubs of the country. Originally inhabited by Khoisan peoples, the region was affected by the Bantu expansion of the thirteenth century. Following European colonization of Africa, European colonisers in the 18th century, the British colonised the region into the British protectorates of Barotziland–North-Western Rho ...
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