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Field (1949:2),[1] says long time ago there were fewer tribes, later these tribe begun to divide among themselves to be the Chewa, the Nsenga, the Lala, the Bisa, the Ambo and the Kunda were one tribe and shared a common ancestry, they all came from Chaŵala Makumba. She tells a folktale of how some of these tribes divided:
Zambia has many indigenous tribes spread across its ten provinces. [ 1 ] [ failed verification ] This is an incomplete list of these tribes arranged in alphabetical order: Ambo
The Senga are an ethnic tribe of Zambia that is different from the Nsenga. The Senga are a tribe who migrated from the southern part of present-day Congo DRC. They re-settled in the Luangwa valley amongst the Tumbuka speaking people. They speak Chitumbuka language. [1]
The following list includes societies that have been identified as matrilineal or matrilocal in ethnographic literature. "Matrilineal" means kinship is passed down through the maternal line. [1] The Akans of Ghana, West Africa, are Matrilineal. Akans are the largest ethnic group in Ghana.
Mbunda people started migrating to Barotseland now Western Province of Zambia in the latter part of the 18th Century. [1]Mbunda people and their chiefs migration from Mbundaland in the now Angola into the now Zambia, since the latter part of the 18th Century Mbunda chiefs location map in Zambia
In anthropology, the matrilineal belt is an area in Africa south of the equator centered in south-central Africa where matrilineality is predominant. The matrilineal belt runs diagonally from the Atlantic to the Indian ocean, crossing Angola , Zambia , Malawi and Mozambique .
Land, labour, and diet in Northern Rhodesia: An economic study of the Bemba tribe. London: Oxford University Press. Roberts, A. (1970). Chronology of the Bemba (N.E. Zambia). Journal of African History, 11(2), 221-240. Roberts, A. D. (1973). A history of the Bemba: Political growth and change in north-eastern Zambia before 1900. London: Longman.
Matrilineality, also called matriliny, is the tracing of kinship through the female line. It may also correlate with a social system in which each person is identified with their matriline, their mother's lineage, and which can involve the inheritance of property and titles.