The Litunga of Barotseland

Barotseland

Barotseland is a region in the western part of Zambia, and is the homeland of the Lozi people or Barotse who were previously known as Luyi or Aluyi. Its heartland is the Barotse Floodplain on the upper Zambezi River, also known as Bulozi or Lyondo, but it includes the surrounding higher ground of...

 (now in Zambia

Zambia

Zambia , officially the Republic of Zambia, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. The neighbouring countries are the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the north, Tanzania to the north-east, Malawi to the east, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana and Namibia to the south, and Angola to the west....

) is the king or paramount chief of the Lozi people. The Litunga resides near the Zambezi River and the town of Mongu

Mongu

Mongu is the capital of Western Province in Zambia and was the capital of the formerly-named province and historic state, Barotseland. Its population is 44,310 , and it is also headquarters of Mongu District.-Geography:...

, at Lealui

Lealui

Lealui is the dry season residence on the Barotse Floodplain of the Litunga, king Troverman of the Lozi people of western Zambia, located about 14 km west of the town of Mongu and about 10 km east of the river's main channel...

 on the floodplain in the dry season, and on higher ground at Limulunga

Limulunga

Limulunga is one of the two compounds of the Litunga, king of the Lozi people of western Zambia. It lies on high ground at the edge of the Barotse Floodplain of the Zambezi river, about 15 km north of the town of Mongu and 21 km east of the main channel of the river...

 on the edge of the floodplain in the wet season. The Litunga moves between these locations in what is known as the Kuomboka

Kuomboka

Kuomboka is a word in the Lozi language; it literally means ‘to get out of water’. In today's Zambia it is applied to a traditional ceremony that takes place at the end of the rain season, when the upper Zambezi River floods the plains of the Western Province....

 ceremony.

The current Litunga is Lubosi II.

Rulers (title Mbumu wa Litunga)

• Mboo Mwanasilandu
• Inyambo
• Yeta I
• Ngalama
• Yeta II Malute
• Ngombala
• Yubya Lukama -Regent
• Mwanawina I
• Mwananyanda Liwale (? - 1812)
• Mulambwa Santulu (1812 - 1830)
• Silumelume (1830)
• Mubukwanu (1830 - 1838)
• Imasiku (1838)

Makololo chiefs (title Morêna)

• Sebetwane
  Sebetwane
  Sebetwane was a Southern African king, Basotho chief. He established the large and powerful Makololo nation in what is now southwestern Zambia after an arduous migration from his original home - Free State Province....
  
   (1838 - 1851)
• Mamochisane
  Mamochisane
  Mamochisane was a Makololo Queen who ruled over many people, but especially the Lozi in Barotseland, today's Western Zambia, and was a wife of King Sipopa Lutangu.Her uncle was the king Mbololo.- Biography :...
  
   (f) (1851) - daughter of Sebetwane
• Sekeletu
  Sekeletu
  Sekeletu was the Makololo King of Barotseland in western Zambia from about 1851 to his death in 1863.- Biography :Sekeletu was a son of the King Sebetwane and Queen Setlutlu. He succeeded his half-sister Mamochisane, who had decided to step down from the throne...
  
   (1851 - 1863) - son of Sebetwane
• Mambili (1863)
• Liswaniso (in rebellion) (1863)
• Mbololo
  Mbololo (king)
  Mbololo was a Litunga of Makololo tribe, a successor of Liswaniso. He ruled 1863 - 1864. He was the last king of Makololo dynasty.-Family:...
  
   (1863 - 1864) - brother of Sebetwane

Rulers (title Mbumu wa Litunga)

• Sipopa Lutangu
  Sipopa Lutangu
  -Biography:Sipopa was a son of the former Lozi King, Mubukwanu, ruler of the south of Bulozi, based at Nalolo whose fight with his brother Silumelume, ruler of the north, for overall control of the Lozi kingdom after the death of their father, Mulambwa, led to the weakness that allowed the...
  
   (1864 - 1876)
• Mowa Mamili -Regent (1876)
• Mwanawina II (1876 - 1878)
• Lubosi I
  Lewanika
  Lewanika was the Lozi Litunga of Barotseland from 1878 to 1916...
  
   (1st time) (1878 - 1884)
• Akufuna (1884 - 1885)
• Sikufele (in rebellion) (1885)
• Lubosi I
  Lewanika
  Lewanika was the Lozi Litunga of Barotseland from 1878 to 1916...
  
  (Lewanika I) (2nd time) (1885 - 1916)
• Mokamba -Regent (1916)
• Yeta III (1916 - 1945)
• Shemakone Kalonga Wina -Regent (1st time) (1945 - 1946)
• Imwiko Lewanika (1946 - 1948)
• Shemakone Kalonga Wina -Regent (2nd time) (1948)
• Mwanawina III (1948 - 1968)
• Hastings Ndangwa Noyoo -Regent (1968)
• Godwin Mbikusita Lewanika II (1968 - 1977)
• Ilute Yeta IV (1977 - 2000)
• Lubosi II Imwiko (2000 - Present)

External links

• Zambian Traditional States - WORLD STATESMEN.org