Mecumba

Mecumba lies in the interior of Angola, east of the lands associated with Kasanje. The kingdom of Kasanje emerged near the upper Kwango River around 1620, when an Imbangala band led by Kasanje settled there. Its rulers, known as kinguri, built a state encompassing communities speaking several languages. In the seventeenth century its neighbours included Matamba, ruled by Queen Njinga, and the kingdom of Yaka farther to the north and east.