Dr. Emmanuel Sithole translates Ndau origin story.

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Dr. Emmanuel Sithole is a linguist. He was born in Zimbabwe and is now working in the United States. Here in 2023, he provides an English translation of the chiNdau origin story recited in the 1950s by historian Samu Munodie (Munodeyi) Mukwakawami. Dr. Sithole is co-author of the Ndau Living Dictionary, part of an international effort to save indigenous languages, hosted by Swarthmore College. He publishes scholarship on the history, politics, and identity of the vaNdau who live in Zimbabwe and Mozambique.

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@HistorywithAbelAlvesandC-hi6dk Месяц назад

This is a comment from Carol. My father, Charles Blakney, was a linguist. He studied chiNdua and vaNdua history in the 1950s. He focused on how knowledge that originated in Southern Africa influenced thought in North Africa and the Middle East. What I find most fascinating about this origin story is that "the Voice," directing the action of Ndau ancestors, is not given a character or description. My father often commented that the vaNdua were democratic to a fault." The chief was supposed to act on behalf of his people, not himself, and male ancestors would choose women to speak for them. The idea of "Voice" seems so central to the Ndau culture of shared memory and democracy. This kind of "Voice" even opens a window to modern science, which first and foremost requires an open mind. It's no surprise that so many great scholars have risen from Ndau communities. Ironically, It is also easy to see how over time, this undefined concept of "Voice" would allows new political regimes to create descriptions that support personal ambitions and exclusionary views on power roles in society.

@promaticsa709 2 месяца назад

Very educatiing story ❤

@vamisosithole5822 8 дней назад

Halala bakwethu koSithole love you I need to cme in Chipinge my father was born there.

@mervisnyaradzo 11 месяцев назад

Well done Mr Sithole 👏👏👏

@AntonySibizapasi 2 месяца назад

Hauzi mundau iwe uri mukaranga moyo Chirandu Gono

@emmanuelsithole8767 11 дней назад

Aizve, saka anozonzi MuNdau ndiani manje? Maudzirwo atakaitwa ndeekuti Sithole, Mhlanga, Dhliwayo e.t.c. ndiwo maNdau chaiwo because mazita avo akabva kumphiri kwaGurugudhera (Limpopo) vachitungamiririrwa ndiSoshangana. Settled in Zimbabwe and Mozambique where they intermarried with local Ndau women and gave birth to us.

@AntonySibizapasi 2 месяца назад

Kana uchitaura ngezvana Murenga/Mbire hausi kutaura ngezve mandau original

@HistorywithAbelAlvesandC-hi6dk 2 месяца назад

“Bantu-speaking communities were constantly dividing. Over a period of three millennia they developed into several hundred mutually unintelligible languages. So how does it happen that a stable African narrative method can still be recognized in Biblical texts that are so distant in time and space? What the vaNdau conserve from the past is a joint decision of elders in lieu of written covenants. In lieu of writing, elders prompted by the ancestral spirits, correct deviations in Ndau traditions. So I must conclude that the similarities between Ndau history and the Bible are connected by longstanding literary conventions.” -Charles Blakney, records from the 1960s after speaking with Samu.

@AntonySibizapasi 2 месяца назад

Are you a ndau or karanga of the Moyo Chirandu Gono?

@HistorywithAbelAlvesandC-hi6dk 2 месяца назад

I am a Ndau native from Chipinge. My entire clan lives under the Mutema and Ngaone jurisdictions. We (my grandfather's family), however, live in Chief Musikavanthu's area. The narrator of the story that I am reading here is Samu Munodeyi Mukwakwami. The Mukwakwami, Mabota, Mbonyeyas are also Musikavanthus as Samu is narrating here.

@BrianMapuranga-e7z Месяц назад

This Is Not Ndau History

@emmanuelsithole8767 11 дней назад

These are creation stories, if not myths, that are meant to explain where people came from. All societies have those. What is most remarkable about them is that they also have some grains of truth in them, for example, some parts of the Musikavanthu rain-making legend are quite true. Chiefs listed sequentially in the narrative are known historical figures. You can ask any Musikavanthu/mkwakwami/mbonyeya/jenya surname "holding" person, they will tell you that they know those people.