Langa (ruler)

Langa
Embo-Nguni chief
Reignc. early precolonial period
BornSoutheastern Africa (Maputaland-Lubombo region)
Died Tembeland
Issue (according to oral history)
HouseHouse of Langa (Emalangeni)
DynastyEmbo-Nguni
ReligionTraditional African religion

Langa was an early precolonial Embo-Nguni chief in the Maputaland-Lubombo region of Southern Africa. He ruled a chiefdom within the Tembe Kingdom.

His followers within the Embo groups were referred to as Emalangeni ("people of Langa"), Embo-Dlamini or Nguni-Dlamini, as they were later called during the reign his son Dlamini I, and Amahlubi, descendants of his elder son Prince Hlubi.