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 peoples mainly in the NorthernNorthern Province is one of Zambia's nine provinces. It covers approximately one fifth of Zambia in land area. The province is divided into twelve districts and Kasama is the provincial capital. It is widely considered to be the heartland of the Bemba, a people who comprise one of the largest tribes in Zambia. Notable land marks in Northern Province include Lake Tanganyika, Lake Bangweulu, and the corresponding wetlands, Lake Mweru Watipa, and a number of waterfalls including Lumangwe Falls, Kabweleume falls, Chishimba and Kalambo ...Northern, LuapulaLuapula Province is one of Zambia's nine provinces, and is located in the north of the country. The provincial capital is Mansa. Luapula Province was named after the Luapula River. It extends along the northern and eastern banks of the river from Lake Bangweulu to Lake Mweru, including waters and islands of those lakes, and is inhabited by Bemba-speaking peoples (including the Lunda, Kabende, Aushi, Chishinga and Bemba). The major economic activity is fishing. The chief artery of the province is the ...Luapula and CopperbeltThe Copper Belt or Copperbelt (usually spelled as one word) is the copper mining area of Zambia, around the towns of Ndola, Kitwe, Chingola, Luanshya and Mufulira. In some contexts it includes the Katangan Copperbelt of the Democratic Republic of Congo, around Lubumbashi, exploiting the same ore body which runs under the border. See also Copperbelt Province. Category:Economy of Zambia Category:Economy of the Democratic Republic ...Copperbelt Provinces of ZambiaZambia, officially the Republic of Zambia, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. It borders the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the north, Tanzania to the north-east, Malawi to the east, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana, and Namibia to the south, and Angola to the west. Formerly Northern Rhodesia, the country's name reflects the Zambezi river.Zambia who trace their origins to the Luba and Lunda states of the upper CongoCongo commonly refers to either one of the two neighbouring countries in Central Africa. *Republic of the Congo (ROC), also known as Congo-Brazzaville *Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC or DR Congo), also known as Congo-Kinshasa **Zaire, name of above country between 1971 and 1997 Congo may also refer to: *Congo River, Africa's second longest and largest by dischargeCongo basin, in what became KatangaKatanga is the southern province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, due under the new constitution to be replaced by four smaller provinces by February 2009. Its regional capital Lubumbashi (formerly Elisabethville in French, Elisabethstad in Dutch). Between 1971 and 1997 its official name was Shaba Province. Its area is 518,000 km² (larger than California and 16 times ...Katanga Province in southern Congo-KinshasaThe Democratic Republic of the Congo (French: République démocratique du Congo), also often referred to as DRC, RDC or formerly as Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, The Congo, Congo/Leopoldville, Congo/Kinshasa and Zaire (or Zaïre in French), is the third largest country by area on the African continent. Though it is located in the Central African ...Congo-Kinshasa (DRC). Bemba history is a major historical phenomenon in the development of chieftainship in a large and culturally homogeneous region of central AfricaAfrica is the world's second-largest and second most-populous continent, after Asia. At about 30,221,532 km² (11,668,545 mi²) including adjacent islands, it covers 6.0% of the Earth's total surface area, and 20.4% of the total land area.Sayre, April Pulley. (1999) Africa, Twenty-First Century Books. ISBN 0-7613-1367-2. With more than 900,000,000 people (as of 2005)"World Population Prospects: The 2004 Revision" United Nations (Department of ...Africa.

The Bemba are those who consider themselves subjects of the ChitimukuluThe Chitimukulu is the Paramount Chieftainship of the Bemba, the largest ethnic group in Zambia. The chieftainship is named after Chiti Mukulu (Chiti the Great), who in the 18th Century led the Bemba out from their original lands in the Lunda Empire of Mwata Yamvo in DR Congo to eventually settle the country around Kasama in Zambia's Northern Province. Category:History of Zambia Category:Zambian ...Chitimukulu, the Bemba's single paramount chief. They lived in villages of 100 to 200 people and numbered 250,000 strong in 1963. There are over 30 Bemba clans, named after animals or natural organisms, such as the royal clan, "the people of the crocodile" (Bena Ng'andu) or the Bena Nona (Mushroom Clan). They were the people who finally put a halt to the northward march of the NguniNguni may refer to: *Nguni languages *Nguni cattle *Nguni peopleNguni and SothoSotho may refer to: *The Sotho people (or Basotho), an African ethnic group principally resident in South Africa and Lesotho. *The Sotho language (Sesotho or Southern Sotho), a Bantu Language spoken in southern Africa, an official language of both South Africa and Lesotho. *The Northern Sotho language (or Sesotho sa Leboa), a group of related Bantu dialects classed together as an official language of South Africa. *The Sotho ...Sotho-TswanaTswana (Motswana, plural Batswana) is the name of a Southern African people. The Tswana language, also called Setswana, belongs to the Bantu group of the Niger-Congo languages. In the nineteenth century, a common spelling and pronunciation of Batswana was Bechuana. Europeans therefore referred to the area inhabited by the Batswana as Bechuanaland. In Setswana, however, Botswana is the correct name for the place of Batswana.Tswana descended Ngoni peopleThe Ngoni people are an ethnic group living in Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania and Zambia, in east-central Africa. The Ngoni trace their origins to the Zulu people of kwaZulu-Natal in South Africa. The degree of relationship between the Ngoni of Malawi and Zambia and the Ngoni of Tanzania and Mozambique is unclear, with Ethnologue asserting that the groups are not related.Ngoni people, through Chief Chitapankwa.

In contemporary Zambia, the word "Bemba" actually has several meanings. It may designate people of Bemba origin, regardless of where they live, e.g. whether they live in urban areas or in the original rural Bemba area. Alternatively, it may encompass a much larger population which includes some 'eighteen different ethnic groups', who together with the Bemba form a closely related ethnolinguistic cluster of matrilineal-matrifocal agriculturalists known as the Bemba-speaking peoples of Zambia.

The Bemba languageThis article refers to the Bemba language. For other uses, see Bemba (other uses). The Bemba language, Chibemba, also known as Cibemba, Ichibemba, and Chiwemba, is a Bantu language that is spoken primarily in Zambia by the Bemba people and about 18 related ethnic groups. The noun class prefix 'chi-' indicates languages and the prefix 'ba-' indicates people, so 'Babemba' also means the ...Bemba language (Chibemba) is most closely related to the Bantu languagesThe Bantu languages (technically Narrow Bantu languages) constitute a grouping belonging to the Niger-Congo family. This grouping is deep down in the genealogical tree of the Bantoid grouping, which in turn is deep down in the Niger-Congo tree. By one estimate, there are 513 languages in the Bantu grouping, 681 languages ...Bantu languages Kaonde (in Zambia and the DRC), Luba (in the DRC), Nsenga and Tonga (in Zambia), and Nyanja/ChewaThe Chewa are a people of Central/Southern Africa. They are closely related to people who surround them, especially the Tumbuka and Nsenga. They are historically also related to the Bemba, with whom they share a similar origin in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Like the Nsenga and Tumbuka, a considerable part of Chewa territory came under the influence of the ...Chewa (in Zambia and Malawi). In Zambia, Chibemba is mainly spoken in the Northern, Luapula and Copperbelt Provinces, and has become the most widely spoken African language in the country, although not always as a first language. .