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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 Bemba people are not indigenous to Copperbelt Province; they arrived there during the 1930s due to employment opportunities in copper mining. Living in villages of 100 to 200 people, they numbered 250,000 in 1963. The ethnicities known today as the Bemba have a ruling clan known as Abena Ng'andu.
Lenje people (also known as Bene Mukuni, Balenje, Balenge, Benimukuni, Ciina mukuna, Lenge, Lengi [1] [2]) is an ethnic group in Zambia. They are loosely bound with its spatial and cultural boundaries shifting, depending on whom you talk to. [3] They live mainly in the Central province but also in Lusaka and Copperbelt province.
The Bantu people originally lived in West and Central Africa around what is today Cameroon and Nigeria. [19] Approximately 5000 years ago, they began a millennia-long expansion into much of the continent. This event has been called the Bantu expansion; [20] it was one of the largest human migrations in history. The Bantu are believed to have ...
Painting of Bimbache of El Hierro by Leonardo Torriani, 1592 The San are the oldest inhabitants of Southern Africa. Indigenous communities, peoples, and nations are those which have a historical continuity with pre-invasion and pre-colonial societies that developed on their territories, and may consider themselves distinct from other sectors of the societies now prevailing on those territories ...
The Kunda or Akunda people are an ethnic group that hails from Mambwe District of Eastern Province, Zambia of Zambia. They number approximately at 250,000 people. They speak Chikunda, a Bantu language closely related to Bisa and Nsenga. Most Kunda live on the eastern bank of the Luangwa River near South Luangwa National Park. Every August, they ...
Mwata Kazembe at Mtomboko ceremony 2017. Kazembe is a traditional kingdom in modern-day Zambia, and southeastern Congo.For more than 250 years, Kazembe has been an influential kingdom of the Kiluba-Chibemba, speaking the language of the Eastern Luba-Lunda people of south-central Africa [1] (also known as the Luba, Luunda, Eastern Luba-Lunda, and Luba-Lunda-Kazembe).
Ulambya, as the country of the Lambya is called, covers an area of 367 square miles and has a population of roughly 20 thousand people with an average density of 36 persons per square mile, the largest concentration being in the more fertile valleys of Kaseye, and the Songwe (Stobbs and Young, 1972: 40; Young and Brown, 1972: 30).