It lies along the Mitumba Mountains and includes the administrative territories of Walungu, Kabare, Kalehe, Mwenga, Idjwi and Uvira surrounding Bukavu, which is its main city.
People are mainly farmers in this chiefdom; but there are more and more distinguished businessmen; politicians and other intellectuals from this important ethnic group of the South-Kivu region.
According to local tradition, the Bushi Kingdom, centered around the city of Kabare, was founded somewhere before the year 1388, and remained independant until the Belgian colonialisation of the Congo in the late 19th century.
[3][4] From the late 19th century onwards, Belgium colonised the area, and with the establishment of Bukavu in 1901, the local kingdoms, including Bushi, were reduced to chiefdoms.
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