Cape Tembwe is a promontory on the west shore of Lake Tanganyika, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

The Scottish explorer Joseph Thomson visited the region in December 1879.

[1] Traveling north, he found the countryside fertile and the people prosperous.

[3] When Thomson reached the cape he found the countryside devastated by the effects of slave raiding by a chief known as Lusinga.

[2] The region along the lake shore from Cape Tembwe south into Zambia and inland into the Marungu massif is inhabited by Tabwa people.