Nsaku Lau

Nsaku Lau was the ruler of the Bantu kingdom of Mbata in the later fourteenth century. Tradition holds that around 1375 he allied with Nimi a Nzima, ruler of Mpemba Kasi, and sealed the pact by marrying his daughter Lukeni lua Nsanze to him. Their son Lukeni lua Nimi led the expansion from which the Kingdom of Kongo took shape, and later Kilukeni rulers descended from him.

As Kongo centralized, Mbata lost influence; by 1620 it kept only the symbolic title Nkaka andi a Mwene Kongo, grandfather of the king of Kongo.