Lucapa

Lucapa lies on the plateau of northeastern Angola, in the country of rivers that drain toward the Kasai. It belongs to a region shaped by Lunda and Chokwe communities. In the seventeenth century Lunda rulers extended their political network across the upper Kasai basin, incorporating neighbouring chiefs rather than simply replacing them. By the end of the century their outposts in eastern Angola were involved in the copper trade, linking this interior region to wider commercial routes.