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Africa House
The Africa House, Christina Lamb, ISBN 978-0-14-026834-8. Penguin Books 2004
Shiwa
Ngandu Manor – Zambia - Video of the House on Facebook here/.
"Docking at Mombasa two weeks later, they were met by Angela, her two daughters, Karen and Mandy, and the new man in her life, John Sutton, a big game hunter who had been brought up in Kenya, shooting his first rhino at the age of fourteen, and of whom Gore-Browne wrote I heartily approve, rare praise from a man who, even more than most fathers thought nobody good enough for their daughters. (Sutton went on to become director of top safari company Ker & Downey and was consultant and in charge of logistics for Sidney Pollack's 1985 film Out of Africa. He died in 1997. Going on to spend a few days with Gerard Portsmouth at his beautiful coffee estate at Mount Elgon, they finally left Kenya for home, driving the 1,101 miles from Nairobi to Shiwa (Ngandu) in two and a half days.”
The Africa House on Wikipedia
The Africa House is a 1999
biography by British journalist and writer Christina Lamb. The book is
subtitled The True Story of an English Gentleman and His African Dream, and was
published in London in 1999 by Viking Penguin. Link here/.
The Africa House on Goodreads
The Africa House: The True
Story of an English Gentleman and His African Dream
In the declining years of the
British Empire, in Northern Rhodesia, Stewart Gore-Browne was a proper English
gentleman who built himself a sprawling country estate, complete with liveried
servants, rose gardens, and lavish dinners finished off with vintage port in
the library. All that was missing was a woman to share it with. He adored the
beautiful aviatrix Ethel Locke King, but she was almost twenty years his
senior, married, and his aunt. Lorna, the only other woman Gore-Brown cared
for, was married as well, but years later her orphaned daughter would become
Gore-Browne's wife. The story of a colonialist who beat his servants yet
supported Rhodesian independence and who was given a chief's burial by the
local elders when he died, The Africa House rescues "from oblivion the
life story of an astonishing man, an astonishing marriage, and an astonishing
house" (The Spectator). Read more here/.
p.7: King Lewanika´s concession of Baretseland in 1890
p.13: Shiva Ngandu (Bemba language): Lake Young/The Lake of the Royal
Crocodiles. In 1867, Dr. Livingstone's dog was eaten by crocodiles there. Livingstone
in 1867: Nachipala/Bareback Hill.
p.14: Chitimukula: The Crocodile King
p. 68: Lake Bangweulu: Where the water meets the sky
p. 71: Mwasibukeni: Good Morning. Answer: Eyamukwayi
p. 73: Nsupa: drink of maize: If it is good, the goods are pleased
p. 83: Chilalas: A quiet period between rain showers
p. 84: Mushitu wood
p. 90: Sitatunga: antilopes
p. 94: Chipembele: Rhino
p. 94: Mkwa: Bark used for cloth
p. 98: "In Xanadu did Kubla Khan a stately pleasure dome decree". Check link here/.
p. 103: "Spelo Meliora": I hope for better
p. 116: Nkoya, Nkoya, Nkoya, Kupwa: I go, I go, I go to get married"
Kaweeya, Kaweya, Kaweya, Kupwa: Go,
go, go and get married!
p. 120: Nkosi Sikelili Africa: The Bantu Anthem: Good Bless Africa
p. 150: Mbwili: leopard
p. 156: Jinga: bike
p. 186: Mpapa tree
p. 191: Miombo scrub (bush)
p. 196: Kabokos: smallpox
p. 210: Macminn translating the bible into Bemba (ca. 1940)
p. 212: Boma: a place
p. 218: Bombio ducks
p. 240: Chipumo & Katata Beer
p. 245: Nachipala/ Bareback Hill: The place where Dr. Livingstone’s dog is buried
p. 252: Machicas: Carriers for people
p. 257: Bu-bu treee
p. 293: wa wina: you win!
p. 298: tristezia virus
p. 302: "even members of Kenya's Happy Valley set like Denys Finch
Hatton ventured over."
p. 308: Nsupa: ølbeer made on maize
p. 308: Buloshi: cursea
p. 316: tik: a threepence
p. 318: Nganda ya tailala: The House is cold -
p. 325: "Docking at Mombasa two weeks later, they were met by Angela, her
two daughters, Karen and Mandy, and the new man in her life, John Sutton, a big
game hunter who had been brought up in Kenya, shooting his first rhino at the
age of fourteen, and of whom Gore-Browne wrote I heartily approve, rare
praise from a man who, even more than most fathers, thought nobody good
enough for their daughters. (Sutton went on to become director of top safari
company Ker & Downey, and was consultant and in charge of logistics for
Sidney Pollack's 1985 film Out of Africa. He died in 1997). Going
on to spend a few days with Gerard Portsmouth at his beautiful coffee estate
at Mount Elgon, they finally left Kenya for home, driving the 1,101 miles
from Nairobi to Shiwa (Ngandu) in two and a half days.
p. 328: Schoolboy limerick:
There was a young lady of Hale
Who Offered her body for sale
For the sake of the blind
She embossed her behind
With a list of her prices in Braille.
p. 337/338: Gore-Browne dies 4.8.1967, buried at Peacock Hill, not the higher Nachipala (Chitane's Mountain.) Written on the grave stone: Chipembele.
AAIÚN NIN modtager ny nordisk litteraturpris
https://bogmarkedet.dk/aaiun-nin-modtager-ny-nordisk-litteraturpris/
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The Challenge for Africa
"Because Africa has not had a culture of writing, it has been easy to promote a culture of forgetting".
"The provincial administration, an agent of oppression and one of the worst holdovers of colonial times, adressed the local people in languages that they did not fully comprehend; the people, either out of politeness or out of fear for their own safety, pretended they understood their new masters and applauded enthusiastically at the end of public speeches. (p.44-45)
"Indeed, one word for "government" in Kiswahili is sirikali, which means a big secret". (p.90)
Mount Kenya
/ Kirinyaga: Place of Brightness
”Before the
arrival of the Europeans, Mount Kenya was called Kirinyaga, or “Place of
Brightness”, by the people who lived in its shadow. The Kikuyus believed that God
dwelled on the mountain, and that the rains, clean drinking water, green vegetation,
and crops, all of which had a central place in their lives, flowed from it.
When Christian missionaries arrived in the area toward the end of the
nineteenth century, they told the local people that God did not live on Mount Kenya,
but rather in heaven, and that the mountain and its forests, previously
considered secret grounds, could be
encroached upon and the reverence to them abandoned. The people believed this and
were persuaded to consider their relationship with the mountain, and indeed, nature itself as primitive, worthless,
and an obstacle to development and progress in an age of modernity and advances
in science and technology. This did not happen only, of course, to the people
who lived around Mount Kenya.” P. 173
“Culture’s
centrality in the protection of biological diversity
Environmentalists
and international institutions are also coming to realize culture’s centrality
in the protection of biological diversity. For all human beings, wherever we
were born or grew up, the environment fostered our values, nurtured our bodies,
and developed our religions. It defines who we are and how we see ourselves. No
one culture is applicable to all human beings; none can satisfy all
communities. Just as we are finally starting to see the value of biological
diversity, we are also belatedly recognizing that humanity needs to find beauty
in its diversity of cultures and accept that there are many languages,
religions, attires, dances, songs, symbols, festivals, and traditions,
and that this cultural diversity should be seen as a natural heritage of
humankind.” (The Challenge for
Africa, Wangari Maathai, Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. Arrow Books 2009).P. 177
Culture of
forgetting
”Nonetheless,
just as Africans can honor sacredness beyond that contained in the Bible or the
Koran, so they should not be embarrassed that, for instance, their languages
were not written down or that their
weapons against the colonial forces were spears. … Tis is why Africans should
honor and record, in written form for current and future generations, the fact
that their communities once knew how to make
spears. Culture could be the missing
link to creativity, productivity, and confidence. Ultimately, it is critical
that Africans dispense with what might be called the culture of forgetting that has
enveloped Africa since colonialism and re-collect their history and culture, and
the kwimenya that comes from both.”Pp.:
182-183.
Micro-nation
"Micro-nations may be very small, but they have all the charecteristics that define nationhood, notably shared common customs, physical boundaries, origins, history and language. Calling micro-nations "tribes" suggests, falsely, that they have not yet arrived at nationhood." P. 185.
Kiswahili
"Nyerere also stressed the importance of speaking one language - Kiswahili - above all others in order to unify the country". P. 216.
The elites
Principally, the elites - the 10 to 20 percent of the population that speaks the language of the former colonial power and in large measure has adopted Western culture as its own - ought to be more in touch with the genuine wishes of the 80 percent who perceive themselves as Igbo or Yoruba first, and Nigerian second; or Luo or Kikuyu or Maasai first, and Kenyan second; or Dinka and Fur first, and Sudanese second". P. 217
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#David Olatubosun
Olatubosun David is a Nigeria writer, playwright and poet. He is a member of PEN, Nigeria Centre, a member of Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA), Ondo State Chapter and also a member of Society of Young Nigerian Writers (SYNW). A graduate of Rufus Giwa Polytechnic, Owo, Ondo State, currently works in Achievers University, Owo Ondo State, Nigeria.
SWORD OF VENGEANCE
by Olatubosun David
The eldest son of Balogun is shot dead by an unknown person suspected to be an enemy from Olofa-Ija village, while working in the farm, making a long time rivalry which seems to be in the period of ceasefire to be refreshed. In no time the evil news spreads across the whole village and the youths are ready to start a war. Their access to Sword of Vengeance (a powerful ancestral sword that used to be in the custody of Balogun) gives them more confidence to win the battle. However, only the village elders know what it means to go to war at that particular time when their tradition forbids it. Hence they have to prepare more and wait for another time since there is always another time.
"I never new of af morning in Africa when I woke up and was not happy."
- Read the report > here/
"Always use the word ‘Africa’ or ‘Darkness’ or ‘Safari’ in your title. Subtitles may include the words ‘Zanzibar’, ‘Masai’, ‘Zulu’, ‘Zambezi’, ‘Congo’, ‘Nile’, ‘Big’, ‘Sky’, ‘Shadow’, ‘Drum’, ‘Sun’ or ‘Bygone’. Also useful are words such as ‘Guerrillas’, ‘Timeless’, ‘Primordial’ and ‘Tribal’. Note that ‘People’ means Africans who are not black, while ‘The People’ means black Africans. Never have a picture of a well-adjusted African on the cover of your book, or in it, unless that African has won the Nobel Prize. An AK-47, prominent ribs, naked breasts: use these".
- Link here/.
Kenya and Uganda history
Source: Tom Buk-Swienty: The Lioness - Karen Blixen in Africa (Løvinden - Karen Blixen i Afrika)
Out of Africa – a travel report from three African countries: Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania, 2013, but in Danish language
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