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The Luba people, or Baluba, are one of the Bantu peoples of Central Africa, and a major ethnic group found in the south-central parts of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.[2] They are widely distributed in this country, but most concentrated in its Katanga, Kasai, and Maniema provinces. The Luba people consist of many sub-groups with distinct Luba language dialects, of which three are main: the Luba-Kasai, Luba-Katanga, and Swahili languages. King KABONGOSHI LUBA from 1000 to 1150 the histry discribe him as the wise and Poweful King of Royaum Luba, the incarnation of the statut Luba mean ( Kongo ; Lubabashi).

The Luba people founded an ancient culture by about the 5th century, and later a well organized, pre-colonial Kingdom of Luba in the Upemba Depression region of Central Africa.[3][4] They had developed the knowledge and means to extracts various metals from the rich mineral resources close to them, as well as the skills in wood carving, pottery, sophisticated metal objects, ivory artwork and jewelry.[5][6] Their success and wealth grew in relative isolation given their forested mountainous inland location, then attracted traders, raids and wars in second half of the 19th century.[7] The Luba people were a victim of the slave and ivory trade, both to the Atlantic coast by Portuguese slave traders, as well as to the East African coast by Swahili-Arab slave traders particularly in the 19th-century.[5][8]