Kazembe
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thumb|right|Mwata Kazembe at Mtomboko ceremony 2017
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- Instance of
- chiefdom
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- Commons category
- Kazembe
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- inception
- 1740-00-00
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 1899-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
17 sectionsContents
- History
- Pre-colonial history
- Origin of the Luba-Lunda-Kazembe
- Portuguese expeditions
- David Livingstone's visit
- Arab and Swahili traders
- Colonial history
- Division between British and Belgian territories
- British rule imposed by force
- The coming of missionaries
- Structure of the kingdom
- Functions of the kingdom
- Modernising the kingdom
- Independence to the present day
- Mutomboko Festival
- See also
- References and further reading
thumb|right|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 (also known as the Luba, Luunda, Eastern Luba-Lunda, and Luba-Lunda-Kazembe). Its position on trade routes in a well-watered, relatively fertile and well-populated area of forestry, fishery and agricultural resources drew expeditions by traders and explorers (such as Scottish missionary David Livingstone) who called it variously Kasembe, Cazembe and Casembe.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kazembe” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.