Konde

The Konde were among the communities of the Maputaland country between the coast and the inland rivers. They belonged to a wider region of Ronga-speaking peoples, including the Maputa and Tembe. Before the rise of larger powers, Maputaland contained numerous small chiefdoms of differing size and allegiance. By the eighteenth century the Mabudu-Tembe kingdom was an important power in the area, with ties of trade reaching the coast and the markets of Delagoa Bay.