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Article: Asserting/inventing traditions on the Luapula: the Lunda Mutomboko Festival.
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- African Arts
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- September 22, 2006
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The Mutomboko Festival of the Lunda people in Zambia's Luapula Province is a widely popular and locally profitable event. It usually takes place on the last weekend of July; the late July date commemorates the July 29, 1961, installment of Mwata Kazembe XVII Paul Kanyembo Lutaba and the weekend celebration allows for more visitors from afar and, consequently, brings more income for the village. Therefore the exact dates shift year to year to accommodate a weekend time frame. In 1971 Kazembe XVII celebrated his decade as Mwata by formally initiating the Mutomboko as an annual tradition. As is often the case when tradition is invented--or maybe in this case reinvented--the ...
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