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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 ]
[4] Marten L. and Kula N.C. Zambia: One Zambia, One Nation, Many Languages. Kunda tales and legends. The Kunda people, like many other Africa tribes, have folktales that talk about their origins. There are a number of hallmarks in these tales about the origins of the Kunda people that the Kunda do not miss.
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 ...
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).
The Senga are an ethnic tribe of Zambia that is distinct 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 a dialect of Chitumbuka language called Tumbuka-Senga. [1]
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.