Saurimo

Saurimo stands on the plateau of northeastern Angola, in the country of the upper Kasai and its tributaries. The surrounding region belongs to the historical world of the Lunda and Chokwe. From the seventeenth century Lunda rulers extended their influence through relationships with neighbouring chiefs, and their outposts in eastern Angola took part in the copper trade. Chokwe chiefdoms later emerged as powers in their own right in the early nineteenth century.