BEMBAS IN ZAMBIA – A SHORT TIMELINE HISTORY

The Bemba tribe migrated into Zambia from the Luba Kingdom (present day Democratic Republic of Congo) during the Bantu Migration, which took place between the 15th and 17th centuries. Legend has it that the chief of the Luba tribe, Mukulumpe, married a woman named Mumbi Lyulu Mukasa who was of the crocodile clan (known as

THE SHOCKING HISTORY OF THE BEMBA PEOPLE

By Bashi Malumbo CHAPTER ONEAccording to oral tradition Bembas came from Angola which the Bemba call ‘Kola’. Some call this ‘Kale’. In 1485 while travelling southwest of Congo, the Portuguese found group of people at a place which was called “Bashi”. Nshinga was there chief but after the Portuguese Baptized him he was renamed as