I am ashamed to say I grew up thinking Zimbabweans were others, but I now know we are one. I been watching a lot of Zim content and have a lots friends from there. Umoja🇿🇦🇿🇼
We lost a giant however uMkhulu uMutwa wayethunyelwe esizweni and the ways izithunywa zethu ezisithanda ngakhona they give us iMboni in every era Although he is gone, there is someone else that is continuing the mandate that he had of taking black people back to their roots. And that person is none other than iMboni Dr Uzwilezwe Radebe the leader and founder of the Revelation Spiritual Home
Hi Prince, I live outside of the country but regularly make visits back home. I was born in Bulawyo and am white, well when i have a sun tan I am almost brown. It would be great to meet up with you when I am in Bulawayo next.
On the language part i feel sorry mostly for TjiKalanga. The nation was prohibited from having literature work in their language by the white people. Many also had to change their surnames from Tjikalanga to the Zulu/Ndebele translation of their surname and most people are Bakalanga but with Nguni surnames dont they ever wonder how that can be? The kids were taught other languages at school and not their own. Some parents had to sacrifice a lot for their children's education. Their spirituality, culture and language died. There arent even any know Kalanga traditional dances and clothes besides the ones that amaWozana wear and those are strictly for tradition. I feel deeply hurt when i think about all this 💔
This is very sad. It is true that people have change their names from their respective cultures. As I mentioned in my comment to the video, cultures die because of domination. People translated their TjiKalanga names to Nguni because the Nguni were dominant during the time period. They did it to fit in. The same can be said for how many Zimbabweans particular and other Africans generally have European first names, because of European domination! Our graceful host here is named Prince, a translation I presume from Nkosana.
My favorite foods are Zimbabwean, Nigerian, Ethiopian. I definitely dine in Italian, Japanese, Vietnamese etc weekly but I eat more african than anything
Great and thought-provoking video my brother. The question: are cultures vanishing is very broad, yes, many cultures have vanished, and many others will follow. The question to ask maybe, is our Zimbabwean culture in particular vanishing? I would say no, it is under threat yes, but not dying. Cultures die because of domination by other cultures, Western culture has decimated many other cultures, few are immune to this (notice how we are discussing how to preserve our culture using English instead of an African language). People like yourself are fighting against cultural annihilation. The Western culture is itself under threat with the rise of the Eastern. The West therefore may no longer be our biggest threat, but new cultural domination from other parts of the world. We must always be vigilant! Cultures have to be preserved, yes, but they should be allowed to be dynamic and not static. Umumbu, for example, came to Africa from the Americas after 1492, our ancestors embraced it because it was high yielding over the small grains (inyawuthi, uphoko, amabele), now umumbu is a staple or foundation of our food culture. Our ancestors, should they have rejected umumbu? The small grains are still there, in fact they never went anywhere. In light of globalisation and the availability of ingredients from around the world: the recipes, the cooking technologies (ovens, microwaves, air fryers, fridges, food processors, etc.) the herbs, and spices, does it make sense then, for us to continue making isitshwala like oKhokho bethu in the name of cultural preservation? Or should we embrace these new ingredients and technologies to add dynamism to our otherwise “traditional” food culture?
I second allowing our recipes to evolve For example i remember my mom telling me that salt alone is enough when you cooking Mogodu however nowadays people put various ingredients in their mogodu and it still tastes very nice and its still our traditional dish
Thank you for this view. Food has to develop that’s without a doubt but that cannot happen without an appreciation of that type of food in the first place.
Cultures are losing tract because black people especially lost their spiritual roots. They are following inkolo ezingasizona ezabo, ones that okhokho dont know. Everything about us has an essence lf spirituality in it. We are spiritual people. But now people follow the Western ways of living, ways of people who dont know who they are. The sad thing is that black people are losing their roots and copying abantu baphesheya while the western people especially African Americans and the likes are trying to trace their roots.
