They also grow groundnuts, maize, millet and sorghum for consumption and cotton (Thonje) as cash crop, and are popular for their Mbewa (Mice), a practice which they are often teased for.
In retaliation, the Nsenga hunters were also ordered by heads of family clans (Tumvi) to hunt down Bemba women.
At the time the Nsenga people had no Chiefs but organised under clan system of governance such as "enetembo, enemwanza, eneng'oma, enelungu, enemumba, enemvula" headed by Tumvi.
It was this hide and seek tribal game, captivity of Bemba and Nsenga women that produced some similarities.
They also grow groundnuts, maize, millet and sorghum for consumption and cotton (Nthovu) as cash crop, and are popular for their Mbeba (Mice), a practice which they are often teased for by their Bemba traditional cousins.
The Nsenga people are also well-known for their ceremony called Tubimba which is held every last Saturday of the month of October.