title: Luba calendar
text: # Luba calendar
  
  The Luba people of the Democratic Republic of the Congo have a twelve-month calendar which is thought to begin in September. Each month is named for natural occurrences and human activity appropriate to that time.
  
  ## Months
  
  * Mvul'a Mbedi (September) - "first rains", the beginning of the rainy season
  * Kibitenda (October) - "white ants come out"
  * Kaswa Bitenda (November) - "the little insects that can be seen here and there", brown ants come out of their mounds
  * Tshiswe Munene (December) - "numerous brown ants"
  * Tshiongo Wa Minanga (January) - "month of drought"
  * Luishi (February) - "planting season" (corn)
  * Lumungulu (March) - "planting season"
  * Luabanya Nkasu (April) - "hoe distributor", a weeding month
  * Tshisanga Nkasu (May) - "hoe assembling", the dry season, no planting goes on
  * Kashipu Nkenza (June) - "first cold, dry air, then hot."
  * Tshibungu Mulume (July) - "the cloudy month with a strong cloud"
  * Tshibungu Mukaji (August) - "the cloudy month with a weak cloud"
  