Kassanje Malemba

Malemba lay in the interior of Angola, in the country between the Kwango and the central highlands. It was already named among the region's political centres in an account of an eastward Portuguese expedition of 1607–1608. Later in the seventeenth century, the expanding kingdom of Kasanje made conquests in Malemba and neighbouring lands. Its campaigns brought speakers of several languages under the authority of the kinguri, as the rulers of Kasanje were known.