Month: July 2018
Gaining Ones Definition
Whose Time Is It Anyway?
– Written by Menzi Maseko :
‘Spring and “springtime” refers to the season, and also to ideas of rebirth and regrowth. The specific definition of the exact timing of ‘spring’ varies according to local climate, cultures and customs. At the spring equinox, days are close to 12 hours long with day length increasing as the season progresses. In South Africa, Australia and New Zealand, spring begins on 1 September, and has no relation to the vernal equinox.’ – En.Wikipedia.org/Spring
Humble greetings fellow Underground Disciples, this year we have dealt with many topics, some in depth while others we have only summarized. As the Old Book says ‘There is a time for everything, under the sun’. So this means don’t fret, we shall find time and space to deal with Kush, Kemet, Letters, Mathematics, Science and all the other knowledge that needs to be shared in order for the Re-Education of…
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Re-Aligning The Interdependent Entities
Serpent Wise or Serpent Evil?
Praising an African King: Lobengula’s Praise Poem
Wolof griot from Senegal, ca 1890
Last month, we talked about the griot tradition of West Africa. This African tradition of long lineages of storytellers, historians, and history repositories of the society, extends beyond West Africa, to all over the continent. For the Ndebele of Zimbabwe, the griot is known as the imbongi.
Below is a praise poem celebrating the Ndebele King Lobengula. The poem was recited in Ndebele by imbongi (griot/poet) Mtshede Ndhovu to T.J. Hemans around c.1970. Mtshede Ndhlovu was born when Mzilikazi (Lobengula’s father) was still on the throne, that is, before 1868, making him some 105 years old. His son, Bova Ndhlovu, acted as interpreter, assisting Hemans with the translation.
For the entire poem, with the Ndebele version, please check out African Poems .
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King Lobengula of Matabeleland
Praise Poem for Lobengula
It roared like a calf.
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Thoughts from 2009 – Knowledge of Self Determination
This is from my very first blogpost in 2009, I was still working as a Manager/Shop-Keeper in a business called Urban Zulu, which I co-owned with a friend of mine, Papy Kaluw from the Democratic Republic of Congo. We would do a lot of Cultural works there, from events, to workshops in addition to selling clothing, books and music and sometimes even food and ‘herbs’.
I wrote this one day after closing the shop one slow Thursday evening, it is dated (Thursday, October 8, 2009)
kumele sikhumbuzane-We should remind one another
“Liberation cannot be achieved except by the perception of the identity of the individual spirit with the universal spirit –” Shankara*
Kuzofunda bani ??? ( WHO WILL LEARN/read)
Examining the meaning of instructive, religious, self improvement and even legislative texts in the context of the high illiteracy rates in my environment.
The efficacy of records: exploring the work…
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Death by GDP
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