Mukulumpe
Bemba · mortal · mythic founding · mortal
In the Bemba charter myth recorded by Richards and analysed by Roberts, Mukulumpe is a great chief in Kola, in Luba country to the west. He marries the sky-woman Mumbi Mukasa and fathers Katongo, Chiti, Nkole and Chilufya Mulenga. When his sons build a tower that collapses and kills people, he blinds Katongo and drives Chiti and Nkole into the exile that becomes the founding migration of the Bemba across the Luapula.
Children
Domains
- kingship
Powers
- to punish and banish his royal sons
Relations
- father of: the Founding Paramount
- father of: Nkole
- father of: Katongo
- father of: Chilufya Mulenga
- spouse: Mumbi Mukasa
Sources
- Andrew D. Roberts, A History of the Bemba: Political Growth and Change in North-eastern Zambia before 1900, Longman, 1973
- Audrey I. Richards, 'The Political System of the Bemba Tribe, North-Eastern Rhodesia', in M. Fortes and E. E. Evans-Pritchard (eds.), African Political Systems, Oxford University Press, 1940