Msinja

Msinja lies below the Dzalanyama range in Malawi, near places important to Chewa religious tradition. Accounts of Chewa origins associate the site with the Banda clan and the priestess Makewana, placing settlement there from the twelfth or thirteenth century.

Nearby Kaphirintiwa Hill is a sacred place in Chewa tradition, while Tsang'oma is associated with a shrine housing the mbiriwiri drum. These places connect Msinja with the religious and social history of the wider Maravi world.

The later city of Lilongwe lies here.