Mbunda Kingdom

Mbunda Kingdom
Reino Mbunda (Portuguese)
Chiundi ca Mbunda (Mbunda)
c. 1500–1917
Flag of Mbunda
Flag
Symbol of Mbunda
Symbol
StatusSovereign kingdom (1500–1917)
CapitalLumbala N'guimbo
Common languagesMbunda language
Portuguese
Ethnic groups
Mbunda people
Religion
Christianity with some traditional practices
GovernmentAbsolute monarchy with autonomous regions
King 
• c. 1870–1914
Mwene Mbandu Lyonthzi Kapova
• 1914–1917
Mwene Mbandu II Kathzungo Shanda
History 
• Established
c. 1500
• Mwene Mbandu Lyonthzi Kapova captured by the Portuguese
1914
1914
• Annexed by the Portuguese
1917
CurrencyTraded in bee wax, ivory and rubber, in exchange with guns and cloth material
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Kingdom of Ndongo
Portuguese Angola

The Mbunda Kingdom (Mbunda: Chiundi ca Mbunda or Vumwene vwa Chiundi or Portuguese: Reino dos Bundas), sometimes called the Kingdom of Angola or Mbundaland, was an African kingdom located in western central Africa, in what is now southeast Angola. At its greatest extent, it reached from Mithimoyi in central Moxico to the Cuando Cubango Province in the southeast, bordering Namibia.[1]

  1. ^ Luís Figueira, Princesa Negra: O preço da civilização em África, Coimbra: Edição do autor, 1932, pp. 35