Mulunda

Mulunda lies in the upland country associated with Lunda and Chokwe communities, west of the upper Kasai. The Lunda kingdom grew into a network of rulers and allied chiefs in the seventeenth century, extending its influence across a broad part of south-central Africa. Its outposts in eastern Angola were involved in the copper trade by the century's end. Chokwe chiefdoms later developed into regional powers in the early nineteenth century.