Chilufya Mulenga
Bemba · mortal · mythic founding · Recorded classification
Chilufya Mulenga is the daughter of Mukulumpe and Mumbi Mukasa in the Bemba origin charter. After the deaths of Chiti and Nkole, succession passed to her young son, and Bemba tradition treats this episode as the charter for the matrilineal inheritance of the Chitimukuluship within the crocodile clan, a system analysed at length by Audrey Richards.
Parentage
- parent: Mukulumpe
- parent: Mumbi Mukasa
Domains
- matrilineal succession
Powers
- to transmit royal descent through the female line
Relations
- sibling: NkoleSister of Nkole; her son succeeded the founding brothers.Andrew D. Roberts, A History of the Bemba: Political Growth and Change in North-eastern Zambia before 1900, Longman, 1973 (secondary)
- sibling: KatongoSister of Katongo.Andrew D. Roberts, A History of the Bemba: Political Growth and Change in North-eastern Zambia before 1900, Longman, 1973 (secondary)
Sources
- Chilufya Mulenga is the royal sister of the founding migration whose son inherits the paramountcy, providing the mythical charter for Bemba matrilineal succession.: Andrew D. Roberts, A History of the Bemba: Political Growth and Change in North-eastern Zambia before 1900, Longman, 1973 (secondary); Audrey I. Richards, Chisungu: A Girl's Initiation Ceremony among the Bemba of Northern Rhodesia, Faber and Faber, 1956 (secondary)