Minza is the founding ancestress of the Sukuma chiefly line. In the royal tradition preserved at the Sukuma Museum at Bujora she is the kinswoman of the Babinza leader Nkanda — remembered variously as his sister, his wife or his mother in different tellings, most often as his sister — and the mother of Sanga, the first ntemi (chief), who was enthroned at Sukumalaha. In the dynastic traditions used by the historian Buluda Itandala to establish the chronology of the Babinza founding of Usukuma, the pioneering men are accompanied by founding women, 'the girls', whose marriages established the earliest chiefly houses, and Minza is the most celebrated of them. Her memory is kept alive in daily usage: the traditional greeting of the Sukuma chiefdom, Iminza, is a direct reference to Minza and her family, and so to the Babinza line she mothered.