Kafulwe

Kafulwe is a fishing village on Lake Mweru in the Luapula Province of Zambia, just north of the mouth of the Kalungwishi River and 3 kilometres west of the Nchelenge-Chiengi road. The population of the area rises considerably with temporary fishing camps on the white sandy beaches when kapenta, a small sardine-like fish, is in season; some of the fish is carried across the lake for sale in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and some is trucked south to the Copperbelt. Kafulwe Mission was a small mission with one missionary, set up in 1922 by the London Missionary Society as an offshoot of the much larger Mbereshi Mission 100 kilometres to the south; it closed in the 1960s and was succeeded by a church of the United Church of Zambia.