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There's still traces its banana plantation, called "Kigundu kya
Mulyama" (the banana plantation of Mulyama). This name Mulyama (who drinks until morning) was given to him in connection with his inclinations exaggerated consumption of the drink. When he landed in a village, he could not proceed
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Bahinga or Balama. Their original name Balama was given to them by other members of the tribe that the clan members lived a long time before dying. They were the praetorian guard of the king of Bavira since the flight of the people of the Luba empire . And later, when Mubila Munanila
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about slavery. He was fiercely opposed to the king to have a covenant with the Arabs in the trade of human beings. The King refused to give up its alliances with Arabas, whereupon her little brothers decided to opt out of his clan BeneLenghe
Balabwe to return to the old clan of his ancestor.
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without having finished all the drink that it contained two glasses at his own expense, all the villagers. Mulyama built several other cities in this part of the country including Katala (near
Namirye) Mujaga (around Lemera) Ndegu (Katobo), etc. where he was installing his brothers Balabwe.
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Bupemba with his people. The decades that followed, some of his people adopt the name of Bavira when it is reflected both in the current country that give the name of
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refused to live in the cities which his father had founded, whose popular culture was essentially based on drunkenness unabated. He still lived with his grandfather in the land of
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of Bupemba known name Ilunga Kiluwe, also known in the name of Sango Wa Mpemba. This is the one that gave birth to the emperors of the second dynasty of the
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Livre d’Or des Bavira: Au centre de la gloire passée de l’Empire Baluba; L’Ethnohistoire des peuples d’Upemba et d’Uvira revue et corrigée
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Monographie des Bavira: Du Kolo Ilunga Lenghe 1er (1650) au Kolo Lenghe III Rugaza Kabale Rampan Romain Ghislain (Octobre 1996)
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166:Nakumika (1898–1932), a 34 -year reign
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