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Akans are the largest ethnic group in Ghana. They are made of the Akyems or Akims, Asantes , Fantis , Akuapims , Kwahus , Denkyiras , Bonos , Akwamus , Krachis, etc. The Serer people of Senegal, Gambia, and Mauritania are bilineal, but matrilineality ( tiim , in Serer ) is very important in their culture, and is well preserved.
The Luvale people, also spelled Lovale, Balovale, Lubale, as well as Lwena or Luena in Angola, are a Bantu ethnic group found in northwestern Zambia and southeastern Angola. They are closely related to the Lunda and Ndembu to the northeast, but they also share cultural similarities to the Kaonde to the east, and to the Chokwe and Luchazi ...
Unlike some other groups in Zambia, the Lala practice monogamous marriages. [10] There are three conventional ways of marrying among the Lala: a pre-arranged marriage between a man and a woman's families, a man and a woman asking permission from their families to marry each other, and a man who impregnated a woman is pressured by her family to ...
Women have a special place in Chewa society and belief. They are recognized as reproducers of the lineage (Bele), which is an extended family of people related to the same ancestor. As a matrilineal society, property and land rights are inherited through the mother. Bele means "descended from the same breast".
Headmen like the chiefs are said to be selected from members of the chief's clan (Goma Clan for the senior chief's area). Senior chiefs usually are headmen before being senior chiefs. While these clans in Zambia are matrilineal in nature, the same tribes which are based in Malawi have a patrilineal lineage. [2]
Traditional Bemba society is matrilineal, and close bonds between women or a mother and daughter are considered essential. [14] Bemba culture is not homogenous. There are two broad groups, one who call Luapula province home and another based in the Copperbelt. The Bemba communities in the Copperbelt were
The members of the Lunda delimitation commission; also Mme. Sarmento and Mrs. Grenfell. The Lunda were allied to the Luba, and their migrations and conquests spawned a number of tribes such as the Luvale of the upper Zambezi and the Kasanje on the upper Kwango River of Angola.
Before colonial history in the late nineteenth century, there is little information related to Lambas. Portuguese explorer Francisco de Lacerda first mentioned the Lambas, in his journal entry on 21 September 1798, recounting that Lambas were trading copper and ivory to Chief Kazembe's Lunda, and the middlemen of Nsenga country near Zumbo, the Portuguese trading post on the Zambezi.