Luba Empire

Empire of Luba
Luba
14th/15th/16th century–1889
Map of the Lunda Empire and Luba kingdoms in the Congo River Basin around 1850
Map of the Lunda Empire and Luba kingdoms in the Congo River Basin around 1850
CapitalMwibele (today in Haut-Lomami)
Common languagesKiluba[1]
GovernmentMonarchy
muLopwe 
• c. 1780 – 1810
Ilunga Sungu
History 
• Established
14th/15th/16th century
• Disestablished
1889
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Upemba culture
Congo Free State
Today part ofDemocratic Republic of the Congo
Luba shown in the lower middle of map in blue.

The Luba Empire or Kingdom of Luba was a pre-colonial Central African state that arose in the marshy grasslands of the Upemba Depression in what is now southern Democratic Republic of Congo.

  1. ^ Augustin MUBIAYI MAMBA, Description des consequences des violations de coutumes luba-kasaï et leurs therapies, Université de Kinshasa - DIPLOME D'ETUDES SUPERIEURES (DES) EN PSYCHOLOGIE, 2014 (in French)

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