Lunda Origins
Origins
The People
The Lundandembu people speak and understand each other using their lundandembu language. Their tribe is LundaNdembu. The Lundandembu people are distict in cultural matters and linguistically. The Lundandembu people are distict in cultural matters and linguistically.
They are not the Lunda of mwanta yanvu who have a different tribe and language (RUUND or URUWUND) of kapanga area of katanga province of DR Congo.
The Lundandembu people now live in west central Africa in the country of the Congo and in southern Africa in the countries of Angola, Namibia and Zambia.
History
The origin of the Lundandembu people is traced from time immemorial through oral history. The written history of the Lundandembu people is recorded by the writing white travellers and the Missionaries and adventurists who sojourned into Africa.
From Africa oral history the migration of the Lundandembu people was from Once Upon a Time. Orally the Lundandembu people were informed that their ancestors originated from Cameroon in western central Africa.
They then migrated into Sudan (the bridge country now between the mid East and Africa). from Sudan, the ancestors of the Lundandembu people moved and eventually settled in DR Congo. That was not the end of the migration of our ancestors from the DR Congo, some of our ancestors migrated to Angola while others migrated into Zambia. And some eventually settled in Namibia.
During the migration some of the lundandembu people who settled along Ndembu River started calling themselves Ndembu people in transit DR Congo to Angola and Zambia.
Our land
The Lundandembu people after migration eventually settled in their lands as follows:
- DR Congo: in the katanga province and the laulaba province’
- Angola: in the Moxico province in Lund north and Lunda south province
- Zambia: in northwestern province and in western province. in Zambia there are also lunda people in Luapula province.
Global Population
1,095,000
395 000
Angola
465 000
Zambia
235 000
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Succession
The lundandembo people are matrilineal. The Chiefs of the Lundandembu people however, succeed ,through the matrilineal family tree while others follows the patrilineal line. In some Chiefdoms to avoid succession, wrangles and conflicts, a new arrangement of rotational succession within matrilineal or patrilineal system was adopted. But no succession across lineage from matrilineal to patrilineal or vice versa is accepted in chief’s succession.
Ceremonies
The Lundandembu lubanza ceremony has been celebrated since time in immemorial. The written record of this ceremony was by Dr David Livingstone the missionary doctor when he travelled to the Lufwinji Palace of similar ceremonies in Angola, DR Congo and Zambia under various Lundandewmbu Chiefs.
In zambia the ceremonies I held on different dates during the July October period in the following chief doms: ishindi of zambezi district, sailunga of mwinilunga district, kanongesha of mwinilunga and ikelengi district, in northwestern province: and kazembe in mwansabombwe district of Luapula province.
The lundandembu people have returned their tribe and the language to date and their chiefs are politically independent. The lundandembu Chiefs and people have also retained their social syswtem.
The lundandembu people of the chiefdoms of ishindi, kanongesha, museli and sailunga of Zambia and in Angola of the chief domes of mukandankunda chinuka and others and in Namibia under the chiefdoms of kasondi and chikudd and in the DR Congo under the chief domes of musokantanda chifwanakeni, kazembi mutanda, saluseki, chisanama and others should not be confused.
the Lundandembu people are distict in cultural matters and linguistically. they are not the Lunda of mwanta yanvu who have a different tribe and language (RUUND or URUWUND) of kapanga area of katanga province of DR Congo
The Lundandembu people now live in west central Africa in the country of the Congo and in southern Africa in the countries of Angola, Namibia and Zambia.