Lealui

Lealui, also Lialuyi, the residence is in the dry season of Litunga, king of the Lozi in Barotseland in Western Province in Zambia. Lealui located near Mongu. At the end of the dry season, when the level of the Zambezi rises, pulls the Litunga in his palace in Limulunga which is higher. The procession is celebrated with the Kuomboka ceremony, an important and popular of Zambia's folklore festival.

The first king of the Kingdom of the Barotse, who resided in Lealui, Sipopa was in the year 1864. 1978 the place of King Lubosi Lewanka as cultural, traditional and administrative capital was created. The center of the royal complex is the Kamona from the year 1880. He still plays an important role at the coronation when the new Litunga must live there for a certain time. The Kamona is considered an important historical testimony in Zambia.

Lealui located 13 kilometers west of Mongu to 1,008 meters above sea level and is one of the greatest locations in the Lozi with about 10,000 inhabitants. Nevertheless, many Lozi have moved away to higher ground. Litunga Lubosi Imwiko therefore an appreciation of Lealui decided by renovations to turn this trend. In the rainy season the Zambezi River floods the surrounding countryside, which he can turn into a turbulent sea, which extends five kilometers inland and only a few islands can. This has regularly homeless and hunger result, since huts and fields are destroyed. The infrastructure is bad to the road to Mongu. There is the Mulumba Harbour and only a primary school.