Process Luba Customary Councils

Luba Customary Councils are traditional governance institutions of the Luba people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, responsible for regulating land tenure, social norms, and conflict resolution through collective deliberation. Rooted in ancestral law and community consensus, these councils sustain communal autonomy and local democracy beyond formal state structures.

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, Kananga, Kasai-Central, Congo, the Democratic Republic of the CD
Creation date	1500
Topics	Ancestral Knowledge, Commons, Democracy, Land Use, Social justice
Context	Rural
Number of participants
Typology	Cultural Sovereignty
Languages	⧼rv-language-lub⧽
Thematics	Radical DemocracyRadical Democracy