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Kuomboka

Traditional annual ceremony in Zambia

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 27, 2026
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Kuomboka is a word in the Lozi language; it literally means 'to get out of water'. In today's Zambia it is applied to a traditional ceremony that takes place at the end of the rain season, when the upper Zambezi River floods the plains of the Western Province.

The festival celebrates the move of the Litunga, king of the Lozi people, from his compound at Lealui in the Barotse Floodplain of the Zambezi River to Limulunga on higher ground. The return trip is usually held in August with a less publicized journey called the Kufuluhela.

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“Kuomboka” enters the record as traditional annual ceremony in Zambia. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Kuomboka, Traditional and annual can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Kuomboka” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.