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The '''''Bemba''''' (or 'BaBemba' using the Ba- prefix to mean 'people of', and also called 'Awemba' or 'BaWemba' in the past) belong to a large group of [[Bantu people|Bantu]] peoples mainly in the [[Northern Province, Zambia|Northern]], [[Luapula Province|Luapula]] and [[Copperbelt Province|Copperbelt]] Provinces of [[Zambia]] who trace their origins to the Luba and Lunda states of the upper [[Congo basin]], in what became [[Katanga Province|Katanga]] Province in southern [[Congo-Kinshasa]] (DRC). They are the largest ethnic group in Zambia. Bemba history is a major historical phenomenon in the development of chieftainship in a large and culturally homogeneous region of central [[Africa]]. | The '''''Bemba''''' (or 'BaBemba' using the Ba- prefix to mean 'people of', and also called 'Awemba' or 'BaWemba' in the past) belong to a large group of [[Bantu people|Bantu]] peoples mainly in the [[Northern Province, Zambia|Northern]], [[Luapula Province|Luapula]] and [[Copperbelt Province|Copperbelt]] Provinces of [[Zambia]] who trace their origins to the Luba and Lunda states of the upper [[Congo basin]], in what became [[Katanga Province|Katanga]] Province in southern [[Congo-Kinshasa]] (DRC). They are the largest ethnic group in Zambia. Bemba history is a major historical phenomenon in the development of chieftainship in a large and culturally homogeneous region of central [[Africa]]. | ||
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*A History Of The Bemba, by [[Andrew D. Roberts]] | *A History Of The Bemba, by [[Andrew D. Roberts]] | ||
*The Rainbow And The Kings - A history of the Luba Empire to 1891, by Thomas Q. Reefe (For general context of the breakup of the Luba/Lunda Empire, of which the Bemba migration is a part.) | *The Rainbow And The Kings - A history of the Luba Empire to 1891, by Thomas Q. Reefe (For general context of the breakup of the Luba/Lunda Empire, of which the Bemba migration is a part.) | ||
==Cited Literature== | |||
1) Bandinel, J. (1842). ''Some account of the trade in slaves from Africa as connected with Europe and America: From the introduction of the trade into modern Europe, down to the present time.'' London: Longman, Brown, & Co. | |||
2) Gondola, D. (2002). ''The History of Congo: The Greenwood Histories of the Modern Nations.'' London: Greenwood Press. | |||
3) Mukuka, R. (2013). Ubuntu in S. M. Kapwepwe’s ''Shalapo Canicandala'': Insights for Afrocentric psychology. ''Journal of Black Studies, 44''(2), 137-157. | |||
4) Mushindo, P. M. B. (1977). ''A Short history of the Bemba: As narrated by a Bemba''. Lusaka: Neczam. | |||
5) Reid, R. J. (2012). ''A history of modern Africa: 1800 to the present'' (2nd ed.). West Sussex: John Wiley & Sons. | |||
6) Richards, A. I. (1939). ''Land, labour, and diet in Northern Rhodesia: An economic study of the Bemba tribe.'' London: Oxford University Press. | |||
7) Roberts, A. (1970). Chronology of the Bemba (N.E. Zambia). ''Journal of African History, 11''(2), 221-240. | |||
8) Roberts, A. D. (1973). ''A history of the Bemba: Political growth and change in north-eastern Zambia before 1900.'' London: Longman. | |||
9) Tanguy, F. (1948). ''Imilandu ya Babemba'' [Bemba history]. London: Oxford University Press. | |||
10) African Elders & Labrecque, E. (1949). ''History of Bena-Ng’oma (Ba Chungu wa Mukulu)''. London, Macmillan & Co. Ltd. | |||
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