LUSHANDUKO - THE REBIRTH OF BUKALANGA

Following is the BACK COVER of The Rebirth of Bukalanga: A Manifesto for the Liberation of a Great People with a Proud History  Cat egory: History/Politics/Anthropology For the last 30 years Zimbabwe has been divided amongst the Shona and Ndebele, with gross distortions of both history and politics. Never told in that set-up has been the story of what is perhaps the largest nation in the country - Bukalanga. H ere is the vivid story of the Great Nation of Bukalanga. Learn the moving story of this great nation, what was the greatest civilization in precolonial sub-Saharan Africa. Their 2000-year history is traced in The Rebirth of Bukalanga . Some of the great lessons from the book are: ·       Bukalanga, constituting over 90% of the population of so-called Matebeleland and about 50% of the Zimbabgwean population, were the earliest Bantu people to have a sustained settlement in Zimbabgwe, South Africa and Botswana, a region in which they wou...

Following is a list of all Nguni groups in general, including amaZulu, amaHlubi, amaSwati, amaNdebele (north and south) and partly amaXhosa. This list was forwarded to me by e-mail by one Mthombeni in June 2012, stating that they are “all the Nguni” surnames, including Swati, Zulu, Ndebele, and some Shangaan. To avoid tempering too much with the list, I have left it almost as it was sent to me, leaving all the various repetitions in place. Those surnames we already know to be of Bukalanga or are names of animals or body parts are marked with an asterisk (*). They comprise about 3% of the list, and about 2.1% on the Xhosa list, showing a non-Nguni origin.  See The Historiography of Southern Africa: Proceedings of the Experts Meeting held at Gaborone, Botswana from 7 to 11 March, 1977 , “ On the other hand one is struck by the fact that all these other groups observe totems to mark descent, and the Nguni, as a rule, do not ” (Unesco 1980: Online). The list goes as follows: [Please...

THE REBIRTH OF BUKALANGA A Manifesto for the Liberation of a Great People with a Proud History Part I NDZIMU-UNAMI EMMANUEL The Rebirth of Bukalanga: A Manifesto for the Liberation of a Great People with a Proud History Part I ISBN: 978 0 7974 4968 8 ©Ndzimu-unami Emmanuel, 2012 Fac e book: Nd zimu-unami Emmanuel   Email: ndzimuunami@gmail.com Twitt er: Ndzimu Emmanuel  Website: http:www.ndzimuunami.blogspot.com Published by Brand Voic e Communications (Pvt) Ltd t/a Mapungubgwe News Corporation Language Editing and Proof-reading Pathisa Nyathi Bheki J. Ncube Cover Design Greg Sibanda, Tadbagn Designs All rights reserved. Not more than one chapter of this publication maybe reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise without prior permission in writing of the author or publisher, nor be otherwis...

In all descriptions of the Makalanga it must be carefully borne in mind that there is no tribe, existing as one, which bears this name, but the people to whom it is applied consist of many tribes having their own peculiar traditions and customs more or less allied, but with considerable differences most confusing to the enquirer - Richard Nicklin Hall and W. G. Neal 1904. The Ancient Ruins of Rhodesia: Monomotapae Imperium. In the preface we saw that for most of the last 170 years, the peoples of Bukalanga have been treated as a sub-ethnicity of the Ndebele, the Ngwato and the Shona. We also raised the point that the Great Nation of Bukalanga is made up of at least eighteen tribes speaking different but interrelated languages. In this chapter we shall go into detail answering the question: Who exactly and what actually constitutes Bukalanga? In an era when the Kalanga nation has gone through many convulsions, displacements and assimilations, it may be a bit difficult to identify t...