Lambya people
The Lambya, are an ethnic and linguistic group based along the border of northwestern Malawi, Ileje and in Momba District of Mbeya Region, Tanzania.[citation needed] The most common surnames for Lambyas include: Mulambia, Ng'ambi, Musongole, Kanyika,Mufungwe, Nyondo, Muyila, Kalagho, Mfungwe, Malokotela, Sibale, Chizimu, Kayuni, Simengwa, Kapesa, Munkhodya, and Panja, among others.[citation needed] It was a small political unit but nevertheless historically important because its inhabitants belong to a larger cluster of peoples hereafter referred to as the Ngulube group, which comprises Safwa, Bena, Kinga, Nyakyusa and Ndali of southern Tanzania and the Sukwa and Ngonde of Malawi.The Lambya share a border to the north with the Ndali of Tanzania and the Nyiha on the west with the Namwanga of Zambia, on the south with the Fungwe, Tambo and the Tumbuka-speaking peoples of Mwenewenya, and on the east with the Sukwa.As soon as death occurs most of the time women who are present begins wailing and messages are sent to the chiefs, the village headman and dead mans kinsmen and affine to announce the fact and bid them to the burial.