Mpemba is an African name that may refer to Mpemba, a 13th century confederation in the Congo Basin Mpemba Kasi, a 14th century Bantu kingdom and northernmost territory of Mpemba, which was incorporated into the founding of the Kingdom of Kongo Erasto B. Mpemba (born 1950), Tanzanian game warden who discovered the Mpemba effect in water Parisel Mpemba (born 1978), team handball player from the Democratic Republic of the Congo Mpemba effect