The Lulua people are a Bantu ethnic group settled along the Lulua River valley in south central Kasai-Occidental province, Democratic Republic of the Congo. The Lulua are in fact a collection of small groups whose home bordered by the larger Luba state and the related Songye people and Chokwe people, with whom they share a very similar culture, history, and language.[1][2]
Lulua lands are bordered on the south by other small ethnic groups, including the Mbagani, Lwalwa, Southern Kete, and the Salampasu.[3][4] Rural Lulua remain mostly farmers.[5]
- ^ Leo Frobenius, Ethnographische Notizen aus den Jahren 1905 und 1906 (ed Hildegard Klein), F. Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden, Stuttgart, 1985, chapter III : Luluwa, Süd-Kete, Bena Mai, Pende, Cokwe ISBN 3-515-04271-7
- ^ Mabika Kalanda, Baluba et Lulua : une ethnie à la recherche d'un nouvel équilibre, Éditions de Remarques congolaises, Bruxelles, 1959.
- ^ William McCutchan Morrison, Presbyterian Church in the U.S. American Presbyterian Congo Mission. Grammar and dictionary of the Buluba-Lulua language as spoken in the upper Kasai and Congo Basin. American Tract Society, 1906
- ^ Constantijn Petridis. Art and power in the Central African Savanna: Luba, Songye, Chokwe, Luluwa. Mercatorfonds, 2008.
- ^ Mu?ammad Zuhd? Yakan Almanac of African peoples & nations. Transaction Publishers, 1999. ISBN 978-1-56000-433-2 pp.485-6