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<blockquote class="western" lang="en-GB"><font color="#000000"><font
face="Verdana"><font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2">Tonga.Online
newsletter # 56</font></font></font></blockquote>
<blockquote class="western"><font color="#000000"><font face="Verdana"><font
style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Maliko
Lwiindi Ceremony on 28</b></span></font></font></font><font
color="#000000"><sup><font face="Verdana"><font
style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2"><span lang="en-GB"><b>th</b></span></font></font></sup></font><font
color="#000000"><font face="Verdana"><font style="font-size: 10pt;"
size="2"><span lang="en-GB"><b>
July 2007 in Sinazongwe / Zambia: impressive celebrations and
encounters</b></span></font></font></font></blockquote>
<blockquote class="western" lang="en-GB"><font color="#000000"><font
face="Verdana"><font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2">The
annual traditional Lwiindi ceremony at Sinazongwe is a function where
the Tonga people appease and thank their ancestors for what they have
done for them in the just-ending agricultural season. Central to the
ceremony is the visit to the Malende site and shrines where the
hosting Chief pours traditional brewed sorghum beer onto the graves
of the ancestors whilst their spirits are called by nyele horn blows
and clapping hands.</font></font></font></blockquote>
<blockquote class="western" lang="en-GB"><font color="#000000"><font
face="Verdana"><font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2">This
year, Tonga.Online facilitated the participation of Simonga, the
Ngoma Buntibe group from Siachilaba, to go across and join their
counterpart group Maliko, Honourable Chief Sinazongwe and the
community on the Zambian side in vibrant Lwiindi celebrations on the
28th July. </font></font></font>
</blockquote>
<blockquote class="western" lang="en-GB"><font color="#000000"><font
face="Verdana"><font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2">The
function was not only an opportunity to meet family members, often
after a long time, but also an eye-opener and learning process for
the BaTonga from the Zimbabwean side on how to preserve and develop
their common cultural heritage which faces the risk of extinction. </font></font></font>
</blockquote>
<blockquote class="western"><font face="Verdana"><font
style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2">The
occasion was also blessed by the visit of Elizabeth Colson, an
American anthropologist who has conducted research among the Tonga
since 1946 and is particularly known for her study </font></font><font
face="Verdana"><font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2"><i>The
Social Consequences of Resettlement</i></font></font><font
face="Verdana"><font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2">
(published 1971). In her most recent book </font></font><font
face="Verdana"><font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2"><i>Tonga
Religious Life in the Twentieth Century</i></font></font><font
face="Verdana"><font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2">
(published 2006 in Lusaka) she refers to such ritual occasions as the
Lwiindi.</font></font></blockquote>
<blockquote class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><font
color="#000000"><font face="Verdana"><font style="font-size: 10pt;"
size="2"><span lang="en-GB">She
describes it as follows: </span></font></font></font><font
color="#000000"><font face="Verdana"><font style="font-size: 10pt;"
size="2"><span lang="en-GB">“On
the Plateau and in the Gwembe hills, major communal celebrations are
associated with the agricultural regime. These are referred to as </span></font></font></font><font
color="#000000"><font face="Verdana"><font style="font-size: 10pt;"
size="2"><span lang="en-GB"><i>lwiindi</i></span></font></font></font><font
color="#000000"><font face="Verdana"><font style="font-size: 10pt;"
size="2"><span lang="en-GB">.
The two most important are the </span></font></font></font><font
color="#000000"><font face="Verdana"><font style="font-size: 10pt;"
size="2"><span lang="en-GB"><i>lwiindi
lwakumwaka</i></span></font></font></font><font color="#000000"><font
face="Verdana"><font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2"><span
lang="en-GB">,
associated with planting, and the </span></font></font></font><font
color="#000000"><font face="Verdana"><font style="font-size: 10pt;"
size="2"><span lang="en-GB"><i>lwiindi
lwakutebula</i></span></font></font></font><font color="#000000"><font
face="Verdana"><font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2"><span
lang="en-GB">,
which takes place after harvest. On each occasion, the ritually
recognized households of a neighbourhood are expected to make beer
for offering to the ancestors, and people go from homestead to
homestead celebrating the occasion. At </span></font></font></font><font
color="#000000"><font face="Verdana"><font style="font-size: 10pt;"
size="2"><span lang="en-GB"><i>lwiindi
lwakumwaka</i></span></font></font></font><font color="#000000"><font
face="Verdana"><font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2"><span
lang="en-GB">,
they may also visit the community shrines (</span></font></font></font><font
color="#000000"><font face="Verdana"><font style="font-size: 10pt;"
size="2"><span lang="en-GB"><i>malende</i></span></font></font></font><font
color="#000000"><font face="Verdana"><font style="font-size: 10pt;"
size="2"><span lang="en-GB">)...Zambezi
River communities, less dependent on a single harvest, did not
celebrate either of these </span></font></font></font><font
color="#000000"><font face="Verdana"><font style="font-size: 10pt;"
size="2"><span lang="en-GB"><i>lwiindi.</i></span></font></font></font><font
color="#000000"><font face="Verdana"><font style="font-size: 10pt;"
size="2"><span lang="en-GB">”
(page 39) </span></font></font></font>
</blockquote>
<blockquote class="western" lang="en-GB"><font color="#000000"><font
face="Verdana"><font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2">Interesting
to note is how dynamically this cultural heritage has adapted to
today’s world and to the needs and occasions of a vibrant Tonga
community in the Gwembe Valley, and how Lwiindi encourages further
cultural encounters across the lake. </font></font></font>
</blockquote>
<blockquote class="western"><font face="Verdana"><font
style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2">See
pictures of Maliko Lwiindi celebrations and encounters on </font></font><font
color="#000080"><u><a href="http://www.mulonga.net/"><font
face="Verdana">www.mulonga.net</font></a></u></font><font
face="Verdana"><font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2"> </font></font></blockquote>
<blockquote class="western"><font color="#000000"><font face="Verdana"><font
style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Tonga.OnAir:
Sinazongwe Community Radio Station established<br>
</b></span></font></font></font><font color="#000000"><font
face="Verdana"><font style="font-size: 9pt;" size="2"><span
lang="en-GB"><br>
</span></font></font></font><font color="#000000"><font face="Verdana"><font
style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2"><span lang="en-GB">A
milestone in the development of Sinazongwe district was marked at the
end of July by the establishment of the first community radio station
in the Gwembe Valley by a team of Austrian ‘open access’ radio
activists, Sandra Hochholzer, Ingo Leindecker, Hannelore Leindecker
and Marcus Diess, who are reporting on their website "..the new </span></font></font></font><em><font
color="#000000"><font face="Verdana"><font style="font-size: 10pt;"
size="2"><span lang="en-GB">Sinazongwe
Community Radio</span></font></font></font></em><font color="#000000"><font
face="Verdana"><font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2"><span
lang="en-GB">
is ready to go on air!"</span></font></font></font></blockquote>
<blockquote class="western"
style="text-align: left; widows: 0; orphans: 0;" lang="en-GB"> <font
color="#000000"><font face="Verdana"><font style="font-size: 10pt;"
size="2">More
information including a detailed project documentation is promised to
come up soon, <font color="#000000"><font face="Verdana"><font
style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2"><span lang="en-GB">read
also their blog TRAVELOGUE (in German) on <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.servus.at/tongaonair/index.html">http://www.servus.at/tongaonair/index.html</a>
</span></font></font></font></font></font></font>
</blockquote>
<blockquote class="western"><font color="#000000"><font face="Verdana"><font
style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2"><span lang="en-GB">The
radio station, based at Sinazongwe Basic School adjacent to the ITC,
has the capacity to cover a radius of 20 kilometres and reach out to
11,000 people but plans are under way to use a transmitter at
Sinazongwe Boma which would expand the range to a 60-kilometre radius
covering the whole Sinazongwe community as far as Mamba and
Kanchindu. An application for the relevant licences is in the
pipeline with fund raising still in progress to cover the costs. The
relevant frequency will be announced as soon as the licence is
granted and broadcasting starts.<br>
</span></font></font></font><font color="#000000"><font face="Verdana"><font
style="font-size: 9pt;" size="2"><span lang="en-GB"><br>
</span></font></font></font><font color="#000000"><font face="Verdana"><font
style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2"><span lang="en-GB">Alongside
the construction of a VHF-transmitter, mast and a fully fledged
radio-studio, the Austrian team conducted a training programme to
capacitate the local community to run the studio and radio station.
The training covered studio and transmitting techniques,
analogue-audio-cut, recording and microphone- techniques and the
editorial and technical preparation of some radio-transmissions. The
community has already established a committee to manage the
station.<br>
</span></font></font></font><font color="#000000"><font face="Verdana"><font
style="font-size: 9pt;" size="2"><span lang="en-GB"><br>
</span></font></font></font><font color="#000000"><font face="Verdana"><font
style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2"><span lang="en-GB">The
Radio Station was officially handed over to the Sinazongwe community
by the Austrian ‘Tonga.OnAir’ Team on the afternoon of 28th July,
following the traditional Lwiindi ceremony. The occasion was graced
by the Zambian Minister for the Southern Province, the DC and by
Chief Sinazongwe. The school choir of Sinazongwe Basic School
provided enjoyable entertainment to the guests, teachers and pupils
attending, including a special ‘Radio Song’ for the occasion. <br>
</span></font></font></font><font color="#000000"><font face="Verdana"><font
style="font-size: 9pt;" size="2"><span lang="en-GB"><br>
</span></font></font></font><font color="#000000"><font face="Verdana"><font
style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2"><span lang="en-GB">The
‘Tonga.OnAir’ project was developed and implemented in close
collaboration with AZFA in Linz and the Tonga.Online team in Binga.
In fact, the two projects perfectly complement each other since they
share the same goals: to capacitate and equip the Tonga community to
use modern technology for their information and communication needs,
to promote freedom of expression; self-representation and self
esteem; and to promote a sense of cultural identity.<br>
</span></font></font></font><font color="#000000"><font face="Verdana"><font
style="font-size: 9pt;" size="2"><span lang="en-GB"><br>
</span></font></font></font><font color="#000000"><font face="Verdana"><font
style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2"><span lang="en-GB">Both
projects emphasise an open-access approach in order to empower the
community at large. There is also a shared vision that modern IT
technology will eventually contribute to the healing of the split in
the community caused by its relocation and resettlement resulting
from the building of Kariba dam.<br>
</span></font></font></font><font color="#000000"><font face="Verdana"><font
style="font-size: 9pt;" size="2"><span lang="en-GB"><br>
</span></font></font></font><font color="#000000"><font face="Verdana"><font
style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2"><span lang="en-GB">see
pictures of the construction and hand over ceremony on </span></font></font></font><font
color="#000080"><u><a href="http://www.mulonga.net/"><font
face="Verdana"><font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2"><span
lang="en-GB">www.mulonga.net</span></font></font></a></u></font><font
color="#000000"><font face="Verdana"><font style="font-size: 10pt;"
size="2"><span lang="en-GB"> <br>
</span></font></font></font><font color="#000000"><font face="Verdana"><font
style="font-size: 9pt;" size="2"><span lang="en-GB"><br>
<br>
</span></font></font></font><font color="#000000"><font face="Verdana"><font
style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Tonga.Online
/ Tonga.OnAir - live input at Africa Remix Panel @ Johannesburg Art
Gallery JAG<br>
</b></span></font></font></font><font color="#000000"><font
face="Verdana"><font style="font-size: 9pt;" size="2"><span
lang="en-GB"><br>
<br>
</span></font></font></font><font color="#000000"><font face="Verdana"><font
style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2"><span lang="en-GB">The
second Africa Remix panel discussion – Digital Africa - took place
on Saturday, July 28 from 10am to 3pm at the prestigious Johannesburg
Art Gallery JAG in South Africa.<br>
</span></font></font></font><font color="#000000"><font face="Verdana"><font
style="font-size: 9pt;" size="2"><span lang="en-GB"><br>
‘</span></font></font></font><font color="#000000"><font face="Verdana"><font
style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2"><span lang="en-GB">Africa
Remix: Contemporary Art of a Continent’, running at the JAG until
September 30, features the work of more than 85 artists from 25
countries on the African continent and in the Diaspora. The
exhibition has already visited Düsseldorf, London, Paris and
Tokyo. <br>
</span></font></font></font><font color="#000000"><font face="Verdana"><font
style="font-size: 9pt;" size="2"><span lang="en-GB"><br>
</span></font></font></font><font color="#000000"><font face="Verdana"><font
style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2"><span lang="en-GB">In
partnership with Trinity Session, the Digital Africa panel comprised
two sessions focusing on technology and its uses in relation to the
visual arts. The panel discussed how art advances in the
technological world, how, in turn, technology influences artistic
creation, and how technology is shaping contemporary African
art.<br>
</span></font></font></font><font color="#000000"><font face="Verdana"><font
style="font-size: 9pt;" size="2"><span lang="en-GB"><br>
</span></font></font></font><font color="#000000"><font face="Verdana"><font
style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2"><span lang="en-GB">The
panel included, Lorna Abungu (Kenya), Bassam El-Baroni (Egypt), Adam
Haupt (Cape Town) and from Johannesburg William Kentridge, Ishmail
Farouk, Mphethi Morojele, Pavlo Phitides, Jason Hobbs, Aryan Kaganof
and Christo Doherty. Moderators were Stephen Hobbs and Marcus
Neustetter.<br>
</span></font></font></font><font color="#000000"><font face="Verdana"><font
style="font-size: 9pt;" size="2"><span lang="en-GB"><br>
</span></font></font></font><font color="#000000"><font face="Verdana"><font
style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2"><span lang="en-GB">A
special input for the discussion was provided by Keith Goddard in a
live interview via cellphone from Sinazongwe/Zambia where he was
attending the annual traditional Lwiindi ceremony. Keith explained
the joint endeavour of the Tonga.Online and Tonga.OnAir projects to
use modern digital means for the promotion and development of Tonga
music and cultural heritage. <br>
</span></font></font></font><font color="#000000"><font face="Verdana"><font
style="font-size: 9pt;" size="2"><span lang="en-GB"><br>
</span></font></font></font><font color="#000000"><font face="Verdana"><font
style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2"><span lang="en-GB">The
next Africa Remix panel discussion on August 25 is dubbed ‘African
Intellectuals’. Another discussion focusing on Museums and
Exhibitions will follow in September. The final discussion will also
be held in September in conjunction with the Art Historians
Conference.</span></font></font></font></blockquote>
<blockquote class="western"><font color="#000000"><font face="Verdana"><font
style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2"><span lang="en-GB">find
some pictures from JAG in Johannesburg and Keith Goddard phoning from
Sinazongwe on </span></font></font></font><font color="#000080"><u><a
href="http://www.mulonga.net/"><font face="Verdana"><font
style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2"><span lang="en-GB">www.mulonga.net</span></font></font></a></u></font><font
color="#000000"><font face="Verdana"><font style="font-size: 10pt;"
size="2"><span lang="en-GB"> </span></font></font></font></blockquote>
<blockquote class="western" lang="en-GB"><font color="#000000"><font
face="Verdana"><font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2">read
more about Africa Remix: ´Art that gets to the heart of Africa´</font></font></font></blockquote>
<blockquote class="western"><font color="#000080"><u><a
href="http://www.africaremixjoburg.com/"><font face="Verdana">http://www.africaremixjoburg.com/</font></a></u></font><font
face="Verdana"><font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2"><br>
</font></font><font face="Verdana"><font style="font-size: 9pt;"
size="2"><br>
</font></font><font color="#000080"><u><a
href="http://www.universes-in-universe.de/specials/africa-remix/english.htm"><font
face="Verdana">http://www.universes-in-universe.de/specials/africa-remix/english.htm</font></a></u></font></blockquote>
<blockquote class="western"><font color="#000080"><u><font
face="Verdana"><font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2005/01/22/bafric22.xml">http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2005/01/22/bafric22.xml</a></font></font></u></font><font
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