Mufumbwe

Mufumbwe is a town of Mufumbwe District in the North-Western Province of Zambia, at an altitude of 1069 metres. The main economic activity is agriculture, with most of the population in small-scale farming, and the main crop is maize; most households keep a year-round stock of maize to make maize meal, which is boiled with water to make nshima, the staple national food. The district has two chiefdoms, Chizela and Mushima, and sixteen wards, among them Kashima West, Kashima East, Matushi, Munyambala, Kamabuta, Kalambo, Chizela, Shukwe, Kikonge, Kalengwa, Kabipupu, Musonweji, Kaminzekenzeke, Mushima, Lalafuta and Miluji.