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Lunda chiefs and people continued to live in the Lunda heartland but were diminished in power. At the start of the colonial era (1884), the Lunda heartland was divided between Portuguese Angola, King Leopold II of Belgium's Congo Free State and the British in North-Western Rhodesia, which became Angola, DR Congo and Zambia, respectively. The ...
The following is a list of the Rulers of the Lunda Empire. The Lunda Empire was a pre-colonial Central African state centered in the Democratic Republic of the Congo whose sphere of influence stretched into Angola and Zambia. The Lunda were initially ruled by kings with the title Mwaantaangaand meaning "owners of the land".
In the 18th Century a number of migrations took place from the Lunda Empire as far as the region to the south of Lake Tanganyika. The Bemba people under Chitimukulu migrated from the Lunda Kingdom to Northern Zambia. At the same time, a Lunda chief and warrior called Mwata Kazembe set up an Eastern Lunda kingdom in the valley of the Luapula River.
Name Lifespan Reign start Reign end Notes Family Image; Nzinga Mbande or Ana de Sousa Nzinga Mbande: c. 1583 – 17 December, 1663: 1631: 1663: Guterres dynasty: Mukambu: 1663: 1666: Sister of Nzinga Mbande
Tshibinda Ilunga or Chibinda Yirung (c. 1600) was a Luba and founder of the Lunda Kingdom that covered large parts of modern Democratic Republic of the Congo and Angola.. Oral history has him as a noble of the Luba people's who in the early 17th century married the daughter of the Lunda King.
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The Kingdom of Matamba (pre-1550–1744) was an African state located in what is now the Baixa de Cassange region of Malanje Province of modern-day Angola.Joined to the Kingdom of Ndongo by Queen Nzinga in 1631, the state had many male and female rulers.
Today the Lunda people comprise hundreds of subgroups such as the Akosa, Imbangala and Ndembu, and number approximately 800,000 in Angola, 1.1 million in the Congo, and 600,000 in Zambia. Most speak the Lunda language, Chilunda, except for the Kazembe-Lunda who have adopted the Bemba language of their neighbours. [1]