Chilufya Mulenga

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

• Mukulumpe
• Mumbi Mukasa

Domains

• matrilineal succession

Powers

• to transmit royal descent through the female line

Relations

• sibling: Nkole
• sibling: Katongo

Sources

• Andrew D. Roberts, A History of the Bemba: Political Growth and Change in North-eastern Zambia before 1900, Longman, 1973
• Audrey I. Richards, Chisungu: A Girl's Initiation Ceremony among the Bemba of Northern Rhodesia, Faber and Faber, 1956