African musical instruments include a wide range of drums, slit gongs, rattles and double bells, different types of harps, and harp-like instruments such as the Kora and the ngoni, as well as fiddles, many kinds of xylophone and lamellophone such as the mbira, and different types of wind...
Good things come to those who believe, better things come to those who are patient, and the best things come to those who don’t give up. ---好事降临于相信者身上,更好的事降临于耐心者身上,最好的事降临于永不放弃者身上。 û...
The Bemba claim to bean offshoot of the Luba empire(see Luba-Lunda states) and are thought to have left the Congo in the 18th or early 19th century. They achieved a centralized government under a supreme chief, the Chitimukulu, who was a member of a single, matrilineal, royal clan. Wh...
Although mystery surrounds the death of the Ndebele King and where he could have been buried, with a number of theories emerging to unlock the puzzle, Pathisa Nyathi insists that he crossed into Zambia and lived among the Ngoni people. He affirms that the funerary items placed on the grave ...
Firstly, anthropologists point out that the insulated love affair between children and parents found in modem societies does not usually exist in traditional societies. For example, in some tribal societies, such as the Ngoni, (he father and mother of a child did not rear their infant alone -...
For example, we saw earlier that among the Ngoni the father and mother of a child did not rear their infant alone--far from it. But traditional societies are so different from modern societies that comparisons based on just one factor are hard to interpret. Secondly, common sense tells us ...