{{Short description|River in Congo DR}} {{coord|-6.03333|23.76667|display=title}} The '''Mbuji-Mayi River''', also spelt ''Bushmaie'', ''Bushimaie'', ''Bushimay'' or ''Mbushimaie'', ({{langx|sw|Mto Mbuji-Maji}}) is a river in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, a major tributary of the Sankuru River. It flows northwards from the Kapanga Territory in the province of Lualaba to the province of Kasaï-Oriental, where it is the namesake of the city of Mbuji-Mayi.<ref name="Kasaï-Oriental">{{Cite book|editor-last=Omasombo Tshonda|editor-first=Jean |title=Kasaï-Oriental: Un nœud gordien dans l'espace congolais |url=https://www.africamuseum.be/sites/default/files/media/docs/research/publications/rmca/online/monographies-provinces/kasai-oriental.pdf |access-date=2021-09-12|series=Monographies des provinces de la RD Congo |year=2014 |publisher=Musée royal de l’Afrique centrale |publication-place=Tervuren |language=fr |isbn=978-9-4916-1524-5 |pages=18, 20, 23, 131}}</ref><ref name=Mcculloch>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=P4IZDgAAQBAJ&q=Bushmaie+River&pg=PP55|title=The Southern Lunda and Related Peoples (Northern Rhodesia, Belgian Congo, Angola): West Central Africa|last=Mcculloch|first=Merran|date=2017-02-10|publisher=Routledge|isbn=9781315305172|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TB9IAQAAIAAJ&q=bushmaie+%22mbuji-mayi&pg=26|title=Total Solar Eclipse of 16 February 1980|last1=Fiala|first1=Alan D.|last2=Lukac|first2=Marie R.|date=1978-12-01|publisher=United States Naval Observatory|isbn=|language=en|page=26}}</ref>
The Upper Mbuji-Mayi is called the '''Nkalany River''', and was were the Lunda Empire originated.<ref name=":12">{{Cite encyclopedia |title=Lunda: Mwaant Yaav (Mwata Yamvo) and Origins |encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of African History 3-Volume Set |publisher=Routledge |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=umyHqvAErOAC&q=historiography |last=Hoover |first=Jeff |date=2005 |editor-last=Shillington |editor-first=Kevin |language= |isbn=978-1-135-45670-2}}</ref>
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Category:Rivers of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
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