Kasenga

Kasenga stands in the Bangweulu country, a landscape of shallow lakes, wooded ground and extensive wetlands in the upper Congo basin. Lake Bangweulu receives the Chambeshi and many smaller rivers, and drains southward through the Luapula. The lake and its surrounding swamps spread during the rains, and as the flood receded, grassland appeared along their margins for grazing. The dry rises between the channels carried villages, and the islands and reed beds supplied fish, fibre and building material. Canoes and footpaths linked the settlements, and the people who lived here traded fish and salt with the inland chiefdoms, while cattle herders brought their animals to the seasonal pastures.