Sources
References
The historical accounts on this site are drawn from the published record and the Kaonde archives.
Sources
References
The historical accounts on this site are drawn from the published record and from the Kaonde archives. Where a fact could not be verified it has been left out rather than guessed at. Corrections from the Royal Establishment are welcome and will be made on request.
The chieftaincy & Kamusongolwa
- Kaonde Archives — Kasempa Jipumpu and the origin of the name Kasempa; the Bena Kyowa lineage from the Sanga chiefdom; the founding of the capital in 1882; the Battle of Kamusongolwa, 1898; the succession of Kalusha in 1907.
- Fifty Years of Kasempa, 1964–2014 — University of Amsterdam Change and continuity in the Kasempa area across the first fifty years of independence.
- Kasempa — Wikipedia Position on the Lufupa River; distance from Lusaka; population and climate.
Shakutenuka
- Kaonde Archives — Shakutenuka Tumiwa, Tapoka and Kungwa; the recruitment of Kaonde labour by Wilhelm Frykberg, 1909–1910, and the deaths that followed; the killing of Ohlund at Shindamona on 22 May 1911; the pursuit by District Commissioner W. H. Hazell; the executions of 11 November 1912.
- Correspondence held by the Royal Secretariat, 2022–2023 Dr Dick Jaeger and Mr Bright Kifita to the Kasempa Royal Establishment: Frykberg as Bwana Mecha and Niels A. Ohlund as Bwana Chiyumbi; Shindamona and the gold mine; the pursuit to the Kabompo river; four hanged before the chiefs and headmen; the old European cemetery and its burial roll; and the reconciliation of 2021–2023.
- Chibanza, S. J. — Kaonde History, 1961 Central Bantu Historical Texts, Rhodes-Livingstone Institute, Lusaka, p. 71. The detailed published account. See also Short, African Sunset (1973) p. 28; Grimstvedt, "The Swedish Settlement in the Kasempa District", Northern Rhodesia Journal 1956, 3(1) p. 34; and Kakoma, Local Politics in the North Western Province of Zambia, University of Sussex, 1977.
The ceremonies
- Kasempa Town Council — Nsomo Day The Juba ja Nsomo first-fruits ceremony.
- Lusaka Times — Royal Establishment on the politicisation of ceremonies The stated position of the Establishment that its gatherings are for unity.
- Lusaka Times — Nsakwa ya Ba Kaonde, 2024 The wider Kaonde cultural gathering hosted at Kasempa.
Kaimbwe salt
- 101 Last Tribes — the Kaonde Salt-making as a craft transmitted to the younger generation.
- Kaimbwe Salt — a Kaonde tradition in Kasempa The four stages of the process: gathering the soil, burning the earth, sieving the ash, evaporating the brine.
- allAfrica — the Kaimbe salt project Assessment of the salt deposit for local and export markets.
Photographs on this site are the property of the Kasempa Royal Establishment and those who took them. The name of the reigning Chief and the officers of the Royal Council are shown by title only, pending confirmation by the Secretariat.
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