Litunga
{{Distinguish|Litungu}}
{{Infobox monarchy
| royal_title = Litunga
| realm = Barotseland
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| incumbent = Lubosi II Imwiko
| incumbentsince = October 2000
| style = Mbumu wa Litunga
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The Litunga of Barotseland (in Zambia) is the King of the Barotse people.{{Cite web |title=Litungas of Barotseland |url=http://www.barotseland.net/litunga1.htm |access-date=2022-05-29 |website=www.barotseland.net}} The Litunga resides near the Zambezi River and the town of Mongu, at Lealui on the floodplain in the dry season, and on higher ground at Limulunga on the edge of the floodplain in the wet season. The Litunga moves between these locations in what is known as the Kuomboka ceremony.{{Cite web|title=Kuomboka Ceremony of the Lozi People: Mongu, Zambia|url=http://wp5.developmenteducation.ie/gallery/kuomboka-ceremony-of-the-lozi-people-mongu-zambia-april-2009/|website=DevelopmentEducation.ie|language=en-GB|access-date=2020-05-24}}
The current Litunga is Lubosi II.
List of Litungas
=Rulers (title ''Mbumu wa Litunga'')=
- Nyambe (god){{cite book |title=Who's who in non-classical mythology |author=Egerton Sykes, Alan Kendall |year=2001 |publisher=Routledge |isbn= 9780415260404 |page=144 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xlRaVT1DOW8C&dq=Ashanti&pg=PA146 |access-date=2010-05-24}}
- Mwanasolundwi Muyunda Mumbo wa Mulonga (demigod)
- Inyambo
- Yeta I
- Ngalama
- Yeta II Nalute
- Ngombala
- Yubya
- Mwanawina I
- Mwananyanda Liwale
- Mulambwa Santulu (1780 – 1830)
- Silumelume (1830) – Son of Mulambwa
- Mubukwanu (1830 - 1838) – Son of Mulambwa
- Imasiku (1838) – Son of Mubukwanu
=Makololo chiefs (title ''Morêna'')=
=Rulers (title ''Mbumu wa Litunga'')=
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- Sipopa Lutangu (1864 - 1876){{Cite book |last=Holub |first=Emil |url=https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Seven_Years_in_South_Africa/Volume_2/Chapter_7 |title=Seven Years in South Africa, volume 2}}
- Mowa Mamili – Regent (1876)
- Mwanawina II (1876 - 1878)
- Lubosi I (1st time) (1878 - 1884)
- Akufuna Tatila (1884 - 1885)
- Sikufele (in rebellion) (1885)
- Lubosi I (Lewanika I) (2nd time) (1885 - 1916)
- Mokamba - Regent (1916)
- Yeta III (1916 - 1945), eldest son of Lewanika I
- Shemakone Kalonga Wina -Regent (1st time) (1945 - 1946)
- Imwiko Lewanika II (1946 - 1948), third son of Lewanika I
- Shemakone Kalonga Wina -Regent (2nd time) (1948)
- Mwanawina III (1948 - 1968), fifth son of Lewenika I
- Hastings Ndangwa Noyoo -Regent (1968)
- Godwin Mbikusita Lewanika II (1968 - 1977), ninth son of Lewanika I
- Ilute Yeta IV (1977 - 2000), son of Yeta III
- Lubosi II Imwiko (2000–Present), son of Imwiko Lewanika II