LUSHANDUKO - THE REBIRTH OF BUKALANGA

Article by originally by Vicent Gono, reporting for The Sunday News . Chief Shana of the Nambya had no kind words of the political machinations which he said were an insult to other tribes. “I am not Ndebele, I am not Shona neither am I English. Why then should I be forced to officially speak in those languages? It can only be said by people who want to dominate others and distort their feelings. We are not happy about the current set-up where our children are shy to speak in their language because they will be laughed at. Whoever is proposing that is courting trouble and disregarding other people’s rights. We thought the constitution was going to provide a platform for us to be heard and recognised in our country but it seems the opposite is true,’’ he said. AS the country struggles to bring finality to the long overdue new constitution, there is growing discontent among people after political parties entrusted with the work of writing this document proved to have reached the a...

This month is indeed an eventful time for the Ndebele, that is, the Nguni or so-called amaNdebele oqotho , those who in former times where known as the abezansi , as they commemorate the life and death of their king. But as they do so, we of Bukalanga, the nation that uMzilikazi found living in the territory between the Limpopo and Zambezi, remember the demise of our great nation at the hands of his impis. We indeed commemorate what I have termed Golomodzo Gulu le Bukalanga , or the Great Dispersion of Bukalanga in my book, The Rebirth of Bukalanga: A Manifesto for the Liberation of a Great People with a Proud History Part I .  The Great Nation of Bukalanga, the most civilized and most cultured of all sub-Saharan African peoples in the pre-colonial era, suffered untold destruction at the hands of the Matebele, or AmaNdebele during their invasions in the 19th century. It is unfortunate that Bukalanga still has not regained its former glory since those days, although the si...

This present blog article is a response to certain disputations that have been raised over my claims that the people called Shona today (properly those that Professor David Beach and others have termed the Northern & Central Shona, meaning the Zezuru and Manyika) arrived in the Zimbabgwean plateau just about 300 years ago. Hot debates have been held on Facebook to the extent that when I presented contrary evidence showing that much of the history of this tablelaland prior to 1700 is Bukalanga history, some individuals went to the extent of even suggesting that by Bukalanga or Makalanga contemporary Portuguese writers were also refering to the Shona. Some even start to dispute the fact there is any people group called Shona and even Zezuru. All this is in light of evidence that I have presented in my recently published book, The Rebirth of Bukalanga: A Manifesto for the Liberation of a Great People with a Proud History that indeed, the Shona arrived in Zimbabgwe by the 170...