page_title: Mbunda people
section_title: Economic Activities
hierarchical_section_title: Mbunda people / Economic Activities
caption_attribution_description: English: Mbunda women on a fishing spree, carrying fishing baskets over their shoulders.
context_page_description: The Vambunda are a Bantu people who, during the Bantu migrations, came from the north to south-eastern Angola and finally Barotseland, now part of Zambia. Their core is at present found in the south-east of Angola from the Lunguevungu river in Moxico to the Cuando Cubango Province.
  The Vambunda comprise a number of subgroups, each of which speaks its own dialect: Mbunda Mathzi, Yauma, Nkangala, Mbalango, Sango, Shamuka and Ndundu, all of them alive in southeast Angola.
context_section_description: The Vambunda are talented iron (vutale) and copper (vunegu) workers and proficient hunters and soldiers with their bows and arrows.  Both men and women are good at fishing. While men use nets and other implements, women use special kind of baskets to catch fish. They are also remarkably skilled at a number of economic activities, such as:
caption: Mbunda women on a fishing expedition, carrying fishing baskets called "Matambi" over their shoulders
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