According to oral tradition, it is believed that the pre-colonial empire ruled by Bai Bureh, the hero of the Hut Tax War of 1898, extended from Kasseh in the Port Loko District to Kalangba.

Also oral tradition have mentioned Gumbu Smart as associated with this settlement The inhabitants are mostly engaged in unsustainable subsistence livelihood activities - agriculture, fishing and hunting - for sustenance.

Kalangba has become an important trade center with the newly elected Paramount Chief Kandeh Kpangai III at the hem of affairs.

Also, this chiefdom headquarters of NGowahun has recently seen the mining of lithium, gold and other precious minerals that is believed to generate income and create employment for the citizenry Present day Kalangba is a merger of three prehistoric settlements - Macigolo on the north east, Mandagai on the south east and Makambi on the west.

Much of that was felt in Kalangba with the arrival of a splinter group of the Manes from Mandimansa (Present day Mali) who invaded Sierra Leone in the 16th century led by the great-grandfather of the Kamaras, Pa Tegbehun.

Pa Tegbehun, known in Ngowahun as the great warrior, established his control over the three settlements in the first half of the 19th century from Gbangbawahun on the south side of Kalangba.

It was during the time of Yangi Saio the great Muslim cleric and prominent business man, Pa Alhaji Saccoh, arrived.

The multiculturalism and increase in population was sped with the construction of road between Makeni and Kamakwei and establishment of the ferry system on the Mabole River in the early 20th century.

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