Mbondo

Mbondo belongs to the inland country of the Mbundu, whose Kimbundu-speaking communities occupied the region east of Luanda. Oral traditions recall Kajinga ka Mbulu as the founder of the Mbondo kingdom, one of several related political communities that included Ndongo, Matamba and Hungu. Their rulers and local chiefs held authority over a landscape of hills and rivers, long before the Portuguese attempted to extend their power inland from the Atlantic coast.