{{Short description|Site in Malawi}} {{Infobox ancient site | name = Msinja | map_type = Malawi#Africa | coordinates = {{coord|14|33|S|33|39|E|display=inline,title}} | location = Lilongwe District, Malawi | type = Settlement | part_of = Maravi Empire | built = 12th or 13th century CE | abandoned = ? | epochs = | cultures = Maravi }} '''Msinja''' is a site in Malawi. It was settled by the Chewa, specifically the Banda clan led by priestess Makewana, from the 12th or 13th century. It was below the {{Ill|Dzalanyama range|de|Salanjama}} and near to Kaphirintiwa Hill (a sacred site in Chewa traditional religion) and Tsang'oma (the location of a shrine housing the ''mbiriwiri'' drum).<ref name="Mbiriwiri">{{Cite encyclopedia |title=Mbiriwiri |encyclopedia=Grove Music Online |publisher=Oxford University Press |url=https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/display/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-4002286062 |last=Libin |first=Lawrence |date=2014}}</ref><ref name=":9">{{Cite journal |last=Juwayeyi |first=Yusuf M. |date=2010-08-01 |title=Archaeological excavations at Mankhamba, Malawi: An early settlement site of the Maravi |url=https://doi.org/10.1080/0067270X.2010.491947 |journal=Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa |volume=45 |issue=2 |pages=175–202 |doi=10.1080/0067270X.2010.491947 |issn=0067-270X |url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref>{{Citation |title=The origins and migrations of the Chewa according to their oral traditions |date=2020 |work=Archaeology and Oral Tradition in Malawi: Origins and Early History of the Chewa |pages=35–54 |editor-last=Juwayeyi |editor-first=Yusuf M. |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/archaeology-and-oral-tradition-in-malawi/origins-and-migrations-of-the-chewa-according-to-their-oral-traditions/5178CBF9FEDE2EBB7A70BA7EDE62798F |access-date=2025-12-10 |publisher=Boydell & Brewer |isbn=978-1-78744-893-3}}</ref>{{Reference page|page=45-7}}
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