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Line 116: According to scholars such as Daniel Kabozi, some of the intricate art works of the Luba people were mnemonic devices, a form of symbolic coded script to aid preserving information and recalling the history and knowledge of the Luba.<ref name="Danver2015p52"/><ref>{{cite journal \| last1=Roberts \| first1=Mary Nooter \| last2=Roberts \| first2=Allen F. \| title=Memory: Luba Art and the Making of History \| journal=African Arts \| volume=29 \| issue=1 \| year=1996 \| page=22 \| jstor= 3337444\| doi=10.2307/3337444 }}</ref> The Luba people, states Mary Roberts, developed "one [of] the most complex and brilliant mnemonic systems in Africa for recording royal history, king lists, migrations, initiation esoterica and family genealogies", such as the ''[[~~Lukasa (Luba)\|~~Lukasa]] memory board''.<ref>{{cite journal \| last=Roberts \| first=Mary Nooter \| title=The Naming Game: Ideologies of Luba Artistic Identity \| journal=African Arts \| volume=31 \| issue=4 \| year=1998 \| pages=56–92 \| jstor=3337649 \| doi=10.2307/3337649 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book\|author=Lynne Kelly\|title=Knowledge and Power in Prehistoric Societies: Orality, Memory, and the Transmission of Culture\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kLksCQAAQBAJ \|year=2015\|publisher=Cambridge University Press\|isbn=978-1-107-05937-5\|pages=78–80}}</ref> These artworks are now found in numerous museums of the world.<ref name="Danver2015p52"/> ==Notable Luba people==

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