The name Babemba means “the people of the lake.” The Bemba are settled mostly in northeast of Zambia, but also in the southeast of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
They share a number of traits with their neighbors on the shores of Lake Tanganyika: the Lega, the Buyu, and the Binji. The territory surrounding them is covered with forests, plateaus, and wooden savannas traversed by rivers. The Bemba have the reputation of being a proud, hard people who learned the art of the hunt and the harvesting of honey.
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