Lamba people are a Bantu ethnolinguistic group mainly located in the Central, Copperbelt, and North-Western provinces of Zambia.
Lambas are generally very humble people in nature.
[2] Before colonial history in the late nineteenth century, there is little information related to Lambas.
Portuguese explorer Francisco de Lacerda first mentioned the Lambas, in his journal entry on 21 September 1798, recounting that Lambas were trading copper and ivory to Chief Kazembe's Lunda, and the middlemen of Nsenga country near Zumbo, the Portuguese trading post on the Zambezi.
[3] However to understand their practices, one must analyze them through the lenses of the Lambas themselves.