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  - 238 results

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Kingdoms of the Savanna
Book by Jan Vansina; University of Wisconsin Press, 1966
Subjects: Africa, Central--History--To 1884
...mundequete , name for Tyo used in documents Mutiy Lunda , war leader mvwab Lunda , officials who governed single villages and whose mwaantaangaand title had lapsed mwaantaangaand Lunda , hereditary headmen, chiefs of the land mwaant...
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Angola, a Country Study
Book by Thomas Collelo; U.S. G.P.O., 1991
Subjects: Angola
The intermingling of Lunda Ruund and Southern Lunda and Chokwe, in which other smaller groups were presumably...languages spoken by the various elements of the so-called Lunda-Chokwe were more closely related to each other than to other...
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The Land of the Midnight Sun: Summer and Winter Journeys through Sweden, Norway, Lapland and Northern Finland, with Descriptions of the Inner Life of the People, Their Manners and Customs, the Primitive Antiquities, Etc - Vol. 2
Book by Paul B. Du Chaillu; Harper & Brothers, 1882
Subjects: Scandinavia--Description And Travel
...blue as heavens clear sky. Alunda -- lunda, Alo. Goes with his scythe light as a...fresh and red on his cheek. Alunda -- lunda, Alo. Just he rode his horses to pasture...colt better tended in stall. Alunda -- lunda, Alo. He goes in to dance -- modest...
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Subnationalism in Africa: Ethnicity, Alliances, and Politics
Book by Joshua B. Forrest; Lynne Rienner, 2004
Subjects: Africa--Ethnic Relations, Africa--Politics And Government--1960-, Ethnicity--Political Aspects--Africa, Regionalism--Africa
...cultural interaction and exchange recur in Lunda exchanges with the centralized state. This includes the traditional Lunda chiefs donning of spectacles resembling...Mobutu even as Mobutu himself sported the Lunda leopard bonnet. Such cultural exchange...
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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
...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...important factor in the emergence of the Lunda state. There were striking similarities...
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journal articles on: Lunda  - 42 results

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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 Carried...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...linked to the earliest times of the Lunda migration into the Luapula area. Further...
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The Legacy of Ba-lunda: Black Female Subjectivity in Luz Argentina Chiriboga's Jonatas Y Manuela
Journal article by Rosemary Geisdorfer Feal; Afro - Hispanic Review, Vol. 17, 1998
Subjects: Blacks, Chiriboga, Luz Argentina, Literary criticism, Novels, Women
The Legacy of Ba-lunda: Black Female Subjectivity in Luz Argentina...enslavement of one African woman (Ba-Lunda), and the textual recuperation of a...accorded to Jonatfass grandmother, Ba-Lunda, whose story begins with her capture...
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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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The Extraordinary Journey of the Jaga through the Centuries: Critical Approaches to Precolonial Angolan Historical Sources*
Journal article by Beatrix Heintze; History In Africa, Vol. 34, 2007
...central Africa, much less to the Rund/Lunda. How is mis to be explained? These...was said that he too descended from the Lunda.40 In 1629 the renowned Mbundu queen...changed radically. For the first time the Lunda take on a prominent role and that not without...
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Broader Economic Horizons
Magazine article by Neil Ford; New African, July 2010
Subjects: Angola--Economic aspects, Economic growth--Distribution, Economic growth--Management, Inflation (Economics)--Angola, Inflation (Economics)--Statistics, Inflation (Finance)--Angola, Inflation (Finance)--Statistics, Mineral industry--Economic aspects, Mining industry--Economic aspects, Petroleum industry--Economic aspects
...mines are located in the northeast of the country, in Lunda Norte and Lunda Sul, which were among the most severely devastated...partners, to explore for diamonds at the Luana mine, in Lunda Norte. Trans Hex takes a 37% stake in the scheme...
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Angola Awakens
Magazine article; African Business, March 2011
Subjects: Petroleum industry--Economic aspects, Petroleum industry--Industry forecasts, Petroleum industry--Production management
...wide range of mineral resources but diamond mining in Lunda Norte and Lunda Sul provinces is by far the most import source of export...instance, Endiama is developing a new mine at Nzagi in Lunda Norte that is expected to produce 36,000 carats a...
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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
...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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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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Broken Road to Peace
Magazine article by Roger Murray; African Business, October 1994
Subjects: Angola--International relations, International relations--Negotiation, mediation and arbitration
...This would give UNITA three governorships - Uige in the north, Lunda Sul in the northeast and Kuando Kubango in the southeast along...diamond output, as the main producing fields in the northern Lunda Norte province have been under UNITA control since early 1993...
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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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Dragons' Den Star Filmed Offering to Buy a Baby Girl
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), October 22, 2010
Subjects: Caan, James
...the devastated canalside village of Jan Lunda, 100 miles north-west of Islamabad...The Sun he would instead fly out to Jan Lunda for the day with his family. He is asking...pounds sterling1,500 brick homes in Jan Lunda to replace the mud huts swept away by the...
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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 same...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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Dragons' Den Star 'F Ilmed Offering to Buy a Baby Girl'
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), October 22, 2010
Subjects: Caan, James
...sterling500,000 to rebuild the devastated canalside village of Jan Lunda, 100 miles north-west of Islamabad. The 49-year-old...is asking people to donate money for new brick homes in Jan Lunda to replace the mud huts that were swept away by the flood...
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Angola's Endgame and Key Players
Newspaper article by Cord Meyer; The Washington Times, October 4, 1996
Subjects: Angola, National Union for the Total Independence of Angola, Savimbi, Jonas, United Nations
...UNITAs hands since UNITA rejected the election results in 1992. Located in Angolas "Wild East" in the province of Lunda Sul and Lunda Norte, these mines produce an annual income of $450 million for UNITA. Isaias Samakuva, head of UNITAs delegation...
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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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Congo, Democratic Republic of The
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...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...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...
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Katanga
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...the regions inhabitants for centuries. From the 17th to the 19th cent. much of the province was controlled by the Luba and Lunda kingdoms. In the late 19th cent. MSiri, a Nyamwezi trader from what is now central Tanzania, founded a kingdom in the area...
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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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