Lubalo

Lubalo lies in the inland plateau of northeastern Angola, among the headwaters of rivers flowing toward the Congo basin. This country belongs to the wider Lunda and Chokwe world. In the seventeenth century the expanding Lunda political network reached across the upper Kasai region, drawing neighbouring chiefs into its orbit. By the century's end, Lunda outposts in eastern Angola controlled part of the regional copper trade, connecting the plateau to exchange routes farther afield.