User:Libingi

This user is the National Chairman of Cheke Cha Mbunda Cultural and Writers Association. This is an Association whose aims and objectives are through voluntary contribution of labour, services, material and financial aid by it’s members in order to revive, preserve, promote and protect from foreign influences, the cultural heritage and traditions of the MBUNDA SPEAKING PEOPLES in totality.

Their research is contained in the "History and Cultural Life of The Mbunda Speaking People" history book, published by Cheke Cultural Writers Association in 1994, now called Cheke Cha Mbunda Cultural and Writers Association and widely referred to by researchers. This is an indigenous Mbunda Writers Association who have interviewed, the Mbunda forefathers, some of whom were there in Mbundaland which is now part of Angola. This book was Published under the auspices of The Zambia Journal of History, University of Zambia, ISBN: 998203006X and Edited by Robert Papstein, Central African Oral History Project.

He is also the Coordinator of "The Mbunda Kingdom Research and Advisory Council" under the Mbunda Monarch Prime Minister's office. This is a body not only advising the Mbunda Monarch on traditional matters but also an authority in authenticating Mbunda people research.

Some of their work can be accessed on http://www.mbundakingdom.org