The European missionary and explorer David Livingston "discovered" Lake Mweru in 1867, and formed the theory that the Luvua flowed to the Upper Nile.
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At the time of the eastward expansion of the Luba Kingdom under King Ilunga Sungu around 1800, Hemba people were living in a territory bounded by the Lukuga River in the north, the Luvua River in the south and the Lualaba River to the west.