Baluba

Baluba is a name for Luba communities of the Kasai country. During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Luba-speaking peoples spread through the savannas and river basins of the Kasai and Katanga, giving rise to communities with distinct local histories. In the Kasai, their settlements and chiefdoms lay among the valleys of the Lulua and Lubilash and their many tributaries.