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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
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 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.
Phiri, B. J. (2000), A history of Indians in Eastern Province of Zambia, Lusaka, ISBN 978-9982-9918-0-3 {}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher Phiri, B. J. (2001), Zambians of Indian origin: a history of their struggle for survival in a new homeland , Occasional Papers, vol. 12, Cape Town, South Africa: Centre for Advanced Studies of African ...
The Tonga language of Zambia is spoken by about 1.38 million people in Zambia and 137,000 in Zimbabwe; it is an important lingua franca in parts of those countries and is spoken by members of other ethnic groups as well as the Tonga. [6] (The Malawian Tonga language is classified in a different zone of the Bantu languages.)
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 ...
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 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 ...