Bunkeya is a community in the Lualaba Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
It is located on a huge plain near the Lufira River.
Before the Belgian colonial conquest, Bunkeya was the center of a major trading state under the ruler Msiri.[1]
Bunkeya is a community in the Lualaba Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is located on a huge plain near the Lufira River. Before the...
tribes and expanded the chieftainship into a kingdom. From its capital at Bunkeya, the Yeke Kingdom took over the western territory of Mwata Kazembe, stopped...
generation of Kenyan guitarists. Jean-Bosco Mwenda was born in 1930 at Bunkeya (now part of Lualaba Province) in what was then the Belgian Congo, but...
Stanley Arnot, who he had heard was in Angola, to come to his capital at Bunkeya, 180 km west of the Luapula River. In 1886 Arnot arrived and was the first...
failed to persuade Msiri, and Thomson didn't make it to Msiri's capital at Bunkeya. Sharpe's reports were complacently dismissive about the likelihood of...
Lumumba, during the Congo Crisis. Munongo was born on 20 November 1925 in Bunkeya (now in Lualaba Province). He was a descendant of King Msiri of the Nyamwezi...
controlled the trade route between Angola and Zanzibar from his capital, at Bunkeya. Msiri and his people were originally Nyamwezi traders from around Tabora...
treaties with the local chiefs as he went. Delcommune's expedition reached Bunkeya in October 1891, but he was unable to persuade Msiri to accept Belgian...
Frederick Arnot in 1888, a missionary who had just returned from two years at Bunkeya, capital of the Garenganze King, Msiri, where he had founded the Plymouth...
Katanga was controlled by the Yeke or Garanganze kingdom of Msiri based at Bunkeya (see map[which?]), and the BSAC and CFS competed to sign treaties with...
1665–1887 Africa: Central Democratic Republic of the Congo Yeke Kingdom Bunkeya Kingdom 1856–1891 Africa: Central Democratic Republic of the Congo Kingdom...
and killed Msiri, King of Garanganze (Katanga) on 20 December 1891 at Bunkeya in what is now the DR Congo. Bodson was then killed by one of Msiri's men...
Province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, with its capital at Bunkeya. Msiri invited the white men to visit his Garenganze kingdom. On 3 June...
his successor. Mziri founded the state of Geranganze with its capital at Bunkeya and took the title of king in 1870. Shortly after this the Sanga people...
on 18 April 1891 they reached Bunkeya and were received courteously by Msiri. Le Marinel spent seven weeks at Bunkeya, but was unable to persuade Msiri...
about 5,150 troops in and around the towns of Jadotville, Kolwezi and Bunkeya. Another 2,000 garrisoned Élisabethville. The UN also estimated that the...
with just a couple of servants, eventually arrived at Msiri's court at Bunkeya with the draft treaty, and would not have cut an imposing figure. The explorer...
recruited, including Luba warriors, 2,000 Bazela from Pweto, Bayeke from Bunkeya, and several white volunteers from Kaniama. By November, the Gendarmerie...
year for the round trip from their base in Zanzibar to Msiri's capital at Bunkeya, where they stayed nearly two months. They suffered disease, starvation...
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