Diambi Kabatusuila
Queen of Bakwa Luntu tribe
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Queen Diambi Kabatusuila Tshiyoyo Muata is the traditional queen of the Bakwa Luntu tribe of Central Kasaï in the historic Kingdom of Luba.[1] Her name means "the bearer of good news".[2] She Holds the title of Mukalenga Mukaji wa Nkashama wa Bakwa Luntu wa Baluba wa Kasaï wa Congo, which has been translated as “Woman King of the Order of the Leopard of the Bakwa Luntu people of the Luba group of Kasaï in the Democratic Republic of Congo."[3][peacock prose]
Diambi Kabatusuila | |
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Visit of Queen Diambi Kabatusuila to the Heitor Villa-Lobos Municipal School in Porto Alegre, Brazil | |
| Born | Belgium |
| Education | College of Staten Island |
| Occupation | Queen of the Bakwa Luntu tribe from Kasaï Central |
| Website | https://www.queendiambi.com/ |
Early life and education
She was born in Belgium to a Belgian mother and Congolese father, who was a diplomat in Belgium at that time. She was raised in Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo.[3]
She graduated from the College of Staten Island in 1992, where she was valedictorian.[4]
Coronation
Activism
She is an environmental activist.[6][7] She attended Davos in 2019.[8]
In 2021, she visited the University of Exeter to speak on plastic pollution[9] and later addressed the Oxford Union.[10]
Filmography
- African Queens (2023)[11]