ABSTRACT
The nature of the building land prevents the village exceeding a certain limit of size and inhibits the development of a cluster of adjacent villages related by kinship in an association of corporate unity. But where Lozi have settled at the margins, a number of related independent villages may be found building together, working land in sizeable blocks and referring to themselves as, e.g., ndandana y a Ndandula, “ the line of villages of Ndandula,” which also may be called mundi mumweya, 4t one village.” In some situations this line of related villages is considered and acts as a corporate group. But the term ndandanda (an Mbunda, not a Lozi, word) also refers to any line of villages, even if not related.1
