ALICE LENSHINA AND THE LUMPA CHURCH

Alice Leshina (c. 1919–1978), was the founder of the African prophetic movement referred to as the Lumpa church. A barely literate peasant woman, Alice Lenshina Mulenga, from Kasomo village, Chinsali district, in the northern province of Northern Rhodesia, started the movement among the Bemba, a matrilineal Bantu-speaking people of Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia). In 1953,

ZAMBIA’S 10 BIZZARE ANDNOTORIOUS PEOPLE EVER KNOWN

Below is a little history known of some of Zambia’s most notorious and bizarre people in their own way and right: 1. ALICE LENSHINAAlice Lenshina was a female ‘Spiritual leader who formed and led a religious sect in Northern Province. She claimed she had immense divine powers but the truth was that she had tremendous

Alice Lenshina Mulenga

By Moono John The northern circuit of Zambia has had a fair share of its place in the history of the country. Many sons of the soil played their part in shaping the country to what it is today. Chinsali holds a special place in the history of the northern circuit as well as the