LUNDA

loonˈdə, ethnic group of central Africa. The Lunda speak a Bantu language and now live in S Congo (Kinshasa), E Angola, and N Zambia. In the 16th cent. Lunda living near the upper Lulua and Kasai rivers assimilated political ideas from the Luba (especially regarding divine kingship and bureaucratic administration) and formed a kingdom ruled by the mwata yamvo, or king. The kingdom grew powerful, partly through trade (especially for firearms) with the Portuguese in Angola, and by the 18th cent. had expanded to include most of the area between the Kwango and Luangwa rivers. At the same time, dissident Lunda migrated eastward; some of them founded the kingdom of the Mwata Kazembe, centered near the Luapula River, which was a flourishing trading state in the period from the late 18th to the early 19th cent. Both kingdoms declined with the establishment of European rule in the late 19th cent.

See J. Vansina, Kingdoms of the Savanna (1966).

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books on: Lunda  - 235 results

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Kingdoms of the Savanna
Book by Jan Vansina; University of Wisconsin Press, 1966
Subjects: Africa, Central--History--To 1884
...especially among the Lozi, Bemba, and Lunda and archival research is also being pushed...from their unpublished research about the Lunda, the Kongo, and the Bolia. Miss L. Marmor...three The Birth of the Luba and Lunda Empires , 70...
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Out of Our Minds: Reason and Madness in the Exploration of Central Africa
Book by Johannes Fabian; University of California Press, 2000
Subjects: Africa, Central--Description And Travel, Africa, Central--Discovery And Exploration--Belgian, Africa, Central--Discovery And Exploration--German, Ethnologists--Africa, Central--History, Ethnology--Africa, Central--Fieldwork, First Contact Of Aboriginal Peoples With Westerners--Africa, Central--History
...he headed the German expedition to the Lunda; after 1884 he had a short colonial career...completed the assignment to reach the Lunda capital, returning to Germany in 1876...an expedition to found a station at the Lunda capital. Suffering from a painful infection...
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Zaire: Continuity and Political Change in an Oppressive State
Book by Winsome J. Leslie; Westview Press, 1993
Subjects: Congo (Democratic Republic)--Economic Conditions, Congo (Democratic Republic)--Politics And Government--1960-1997, Despotism--Congo (Democratic Republic)--History
...of the Kongo people--the Luba and the Lunda, for example--were similarly affected...established themselves outside the kingdom. The Lunda empire grew out of a kingdom formed by...the southwest corner of the Congo, the Lunda settlements extended from Katanga province...
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Handbook to the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland
Book by W. V. Brelsford; Cassell, 1960
Subjects: Rhodesia And Nyasaland
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Politics in an Urban African Community
Book by A. L. Epstein; Manchester University Press, 1958
Subjects: Cities And Towns--Zambia--Case Studies, Luanshya (Zambia), Zambia--Politics And Government
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A Crown on the Move: Stylistic Integration of the Luba-Lunda Complex in Lunda-Kazembe Performance
Journal article by Ruth Kerkham Simbao; African Arts, Vol. 39, 2006
Subjects: Lunda (African people)--Political aspects, Lunda (African people)--Social aspects, Zambia--Political aspects, Zambia--Social aspects
...Crown on the Move: Stylistic Integration of the Luba-Lunda Complex in Lunda-Kazembe Performance. by Ruth Kerkham Simbao...back of his akatasa crown. It is on this day that the Lunda-Kazembe Crown moves. FIGURE 1 OMITTED This magnificent...
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Asserting/inventing Traditions on the Luapula: The Lunda Mutomboko Festival
Journal article by Robert Cancel; African Arts, Vol. 39, 2006
Subjects: Lunda (African people)--Fairs and festivals, Lunda (African people)--Social aspects, Munona, Chinyanta--Political activity, Zambia--Fairs and festivals, Zambia--Political aspects, Zambia--Social aspects
...inventing Traditions on the Luapula: The Lunda Mutomboko Festival. by Robert Cancel The Mutomboko Festival of the Lunda people in Zambias Luapula Province is a...antiquity, linked to the earliest times of the Lunda migration into the Luapula area. Further...
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The Mbíímbi, a Panegyrical Dynastic Poem of the Yaka, and Its Principal Characteristics
Journal article by Joseph N'Soko Swa-Kabamba, R. H. Mitsch; Research in African Literatures, Vol. 28, 1997
Subjects: Africa--History, African Fiction--History And Criticism, African Literature--History And Criticism, African Poetry--History And Criticism, Postcolonialism--Africa
...1984, while collecting material in Kasongo-Lunda at the kyaambvu s court, I again came...According to him, in the town of Kasongo-Lunda there were many persons who knew how to...While residing in the town of Kasongo-Lunda where he worked as a concierge for a Portuguese...
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Origin Traditions and History in Central Africa
Journal article by John K. Thornton; African Arts, Vol. 37, 2004
Subjects: African literature--Evaluation, Central Africa--Cultural policy, Central Africa--History
...political nature of accounts of origins of the Lunda Empire and its neighbors, where a detailed...and rural (Fig. 6). FIGURE 6 OMITTED Lunda Origin Myths This long tale of origins...elsewhere by examining the traditions of the Lunda Empire to the east of Kongo, which claims...
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Masks, Myths, Novels, and Symbolic Ambiguity: Dialogues between Verbal and Visual Arts
Journal article by Manuela Palmeirim; African Arts, Vol. 41, 2008
Subjects: African mythology--Analysis, Art criticism--Analysis, Masks--Design and construction, Masks--Social aspects, Oral tradition--Analysis
...origin of kingship among the Aruwund, the Lunda nuclear group inhabiting the south of the...This mask, made by a Chokwe artist for a Lunda initiation ritual, having two faces oriented...Ethnographia e Historia Tradicional dos Povos da Lunda, Lisbon: Imprensa Nacional. Duysters, L...
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Smugglers' Rout
Magazine article by Francois Misser; African Business, June 1995
Subjects: Angola, Crime, Diamond industry--Economic aspects, Diamond mining, Diamonds, Smuggling--Angola
...by Francois Misser The seizure of the diamond rich Lunda Norte region last October by Angolan Government troops has put...capitalise on that control. There followed an invasion by the "Bana Lunda" - diggers coming from the Bandundu, Kasai, and Katanga regions...
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Petra Returns to Angola
Magazine article; African Business, July 2003
Subjects: Angola--Natural resources, Diamond industry--Discovery and exploration, Diamond mining, Diamonds
...redeployed an exploration team on the Alto Cuilo concession in the Lunda Norte province of Northern Angola and has completed reconstruction...The discovery, on the 3000sq kl Alto Cuilo concession in the Lunda provinces in north-eastern Angola, was recognised as a major...
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Unita Lunges for Diamond Industry
Magazine article by Chris Gordon; African Business, October 1995
Subjects: Angola--Political aspects, National Union for the Total Independence of Angola--Political activity
...again strive to gain control of Angolas diamond industry in Lunda Norte and Sul. Despite the severity of the fighting, Mr Blondin...the Government continued to deploy large numbers of troops in Lunda Norte province into August, aiming to cut off the cross border...
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Hot Diamonds
Magazine article by Chris Gordon; African Business, June 1996
Subjects: Angola, Crime, Diamond industry--Economic aspects, Diamond mining, Diamonds, National Union for the Total Independence of Angola
...prey to Unita namely, the eastern areas of Lunda Norte near Dundo and Njazi. Moreover...on the fringes of mining concessions in Lunda Norte was implemented. It has been a success...than Unita. Thus, in regions such as Lunda Norte the military have been brought in...
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Soldier of Fortune: The Mercenary as Corporate Executive
Magazine article by Francois Misser, Anver Versi; African Business, December 1997
Subjects: Africa, Mercenaries--Management, Mercenary troops--Management, Security services industry--Management
...American Mineral Fields International on diamond concessions in the Lunda Norte province. And the Israeli firm Levadan is a subsidiary...stakes is DiamondWorks (DMW), which obtained concessions in Lunda Norte, a region where EO and its subsidiary Sarracen had also...
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Two Kabila Foes Want to Capture the Entire Nation: Say Democracy for Congo Is Goal
Newspaper article by Richard C. Gross; The Washington Times, October 16, 1998
Subjects: Congo
...editors at The Washington Times. He and Lunda-Bululu, the coordinator of the executive...the rebels were receiving outside help. Lunda-Bululu said the rebel chances for success...advancing," he said. "We need no help," Lunda-Bululu said. "Each time we take a city...
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BANK CLERK STOLE Pounds 273k FROM ELDERLY CUSTOMER
Newspaper article; Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England), April 12, 2006
Subjects: Aged, Banking industry, Elderly
BANK CLERK STOLE Pounds 273k FROM ELDERLY CUSTOMER. Byline: By LUNDA ROUGHLEY A BANK clerk who befriended a wealthy elderly woman customer, systematically milked her accounts of more than pounds...
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Bloodshed Threatens to Erupt Again in Angola
Newspaper article by Gus Constantine; The Washington Times, July 30, 1998
Subjects: Angola
...diamond belt, stretching from the northeast Lunda Norte province southwestward. At the...government in Luanda, violence erupted in the Lunda Norte diamond area. On July 21, an apparently...took place in the village of Mussuku in Lunda Norte province. Survivors accused UNITA...
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Pressure to Enforce Lusaka Agreement Comes from a Variety of Nations
Newspaper article by Antonio Namburete; The Washington Times, July 30, 1998
Subjects: Angola
...Angola to send a strong message to both sides, the government and UNITA. Q: The massacre in Lunda Norte, what do you know about it? A: This incident in Lunda Norte, where over 200 people where killed, we did not witness that massacre. Because of...
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Diamond Mining Execs Visit Leyte
Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, January 28, 2006
Subjects: Diamond mining, Executives, Mineral industry, Mining industry
...Mining in Cordillera, where they learned much mining operations and observed underground exploration. Catocaas minefield at Lunda Sul, Angola is an open pit. In Pasar, they were impressed by the environmental protection measures in place. Jones said there...
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Lunda
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
LUNDA loon d , ethnic group of central Africa. The Lunda speak a Bantu language and now live in S Congo (Kinshasa), E Angola, and N Zambia. In the 16th cent. Lunda living near the upper Lulua and Kasai rivers assimilated...
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Tshombe, Moise Kapenda
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...KAPENDA mo-es k pen da chom ba, 1919 69, political leader in Congo (Kinshasa). He was related to the royal family of the Lunda people and received his education at mission schools. In 1951 he was elected to the advisory provisional council of Katanga...
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Lund
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...and a rail junction. Manufactures include paper, packaging, printed materials, and clothing. Mentioned (c.920) in the sagas as Lunda, it became the Roman Catholic archiepiscopal see for Scandinavia in 1103 4 and subsequently flourished as an ecclesiastical...
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Congo, Democratic Republic of The
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Kongo, Mongo, Luba, Bwaka, Kwango, Lulua, Lunda, and Kasai. The Alur are the main Nilotic...Also included among these states were the Lunda kingdom of Mwata Yamo (founded in the 15th...and Sankuru rivers in S Congo; and the Lunda kingdom of Mwata Kazembe (founded in the...
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Puffin
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...islands and migrate regularly the Atlantic puffin, Fratercula arctica, as far south as Long Island and the Pacific puffin, Lunda cirrhata, to California. The female lays a single egg, which is incubated mainly by the female. The chick is fed fish by both...
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