Langa was an early precolonial Embo-Nguni chief in the Maputaland-Lubombo region of Southern Africa. He ruled a chiefdom within the Tembe Kingdom.Sikhondze, Bonginkosi Bhutana. State Within A State: The History of the Evolution of the Mamba clan of Swaziland Transafrican Journal of History, vol. 15, 1986, pp. 144. JSTOR. Accessed 22 Dec. 2025.
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 IMatsebula, J.S.M. (1988) History of Eswatini. Longman. 3rd edition. . Page 6, and Amahlubi, descendants of his elder son Prince Hlubi.
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