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The Luba ( Baluba in Tchiluba) are people of central Africa. Their cradle is the Katanga, more precisely the area of the river Lubu, of or the name ( Baluba , which want to say “Lubas”). They were born from a secession of the ethnos group Songhoy, under the direction of Ilunga Kalala which made die the old king Kongolo venerated since in the shape of a python. At the 16th century they créerent a state, organized in cheffery decentralized, which extended from the Rivière Kasaï with the Lac Tanganyika. The chefferies recover a small territory without true border which gathers 3 villages at most. However the various chefferies are bound by the trade. The outstanding figures of this Luba monarchy are the kings Kongolo, Kalala Ilunga (16th century) and the successors Kasongo Nyembo and Kabongo. Balubas often split giving rise to the Bena-Lulua and to the Lunda. Thus the Mwata Yamvo, emperor Lunda was born from a father luba, and Moïse Tshombe, one of these descendant, is thus also of origin luba. At the 19th century the lubas could not face the assaults tchokwe, lélés and Yékés.

In 1897 Léopold II striped the chefferies Lubas of the chart and included their territory in his state independent of Congo. Their territory was entrusted to concessionary companies in particular the Company of Kasai the balubas were then almost decimated by the forced labor which was forced to them in order to collect wild rubber (famine, exhaustion) Léopold II imposed the Police force like army and police force to supervise the populations. Many a balubas was also to off-set more in the south, in Katanga to work in the mines. Jusqu´aujourd´hui their descendants the balubakats form a etnhic minority in Katanga. In 1907, Léopold II entrusted l education of Congolese to the Vatican jusqu´ at the end of Belgian colonization (1960) l´église will work hand in the hand with the colonial authority, the religionchrétienne becomes the official religion then. Imposed in the schools, n´importe which indvidu is baptized with goes quickly, old the cultesafricians is prohibited. The many missionaries however take care that nobody n´échappe with the forced labors, and the Force publiqe take care that each one goes to l´église.

Previously the balubas venerated their dead ancestors residents with the sky and in front of protecting them. They y´ also had oracles (lubuko) with divinateurs. The Flemish priests nevertheless transcribed and taught the tchiluba in the schools beside French. The balubas did not know the private property the concept to sell a ground arrived with colonization.

In 1960, at the time of the independence of the Belgian Congo, Albert Kalonji, president of MNC-Kalonji, proclaims emperor of Luba (Luba-Mulopwe) and Head of State of the South-Kasaï. That will last until September 1962. A minority of balubas also lives in l´Angola close, European colonization á separate the same ethnicity. As a democratic republic of Congo Lubas are the greatest ethnos group (12%) ils´sont far from many in Angola.

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