Hey friends,
Welcome to the first issue of the Lughayangu newsletter! Happy to have you on board. I am very excited to start this chapter of Lughayangu and look forward to seeing the community grow. If you do enjoy the newsletter, please share it with your friends.
We will be sharing content about the African culture, languages and history from other content creators and our own. We strongly believe in the need to tell our own stories, and in that way, we get to appreciate, learn and preserve them.
Black people and Afro Emojis
Our friends at Afromoji have revolutionised the emoji world. Thanks to them, you can now share unique and funny black emojis, emoticons and stickers.
Emojis have become part of our everyday conversations. We can now communicate our emotions using a single emoji. However, for a long time, most black people still felt disconnected from the emoji culture as no emojis depicted our true identity.
Dr Hastings Kamuzu Banda, the Malawian Dictator
Dr Hastings Banda was one of the most learned, brutal and longest-serving African dictators. During his 33 year tenure, Malawi experienced the worst human rights violations. He treated his people as children and addressed his ministers as boys 😅. He went as far as to ban televisions, beards, dreadlocks and long hair among men.
All this and so much more are well narrated in the recently released documentary by AFRISTORY PRODUCTIONS available on youtube. It is a well researched and balanced documentary, and I highly recommend that you go and watch it.
Nyumba Ntobhu (House of Women)
Nyumba ntobhu is a traditional form of non-sexual same-sex union among Kuira women of the Mara Region of Tanzania. The partnerships are between older, usually widowed women without male descendants and younger, childless women, known as mokamööna. The elder woman serves as a grandmother to the resulting child, thus securing her with an heir and ensuring the continuation of her lineage. These marriages are also secured through the payment of a bride price in the form of cattle.
The Himba People
These indigenous people are unique in that they still uphold their traditional practices. Most still don their traditional clothing, which consists of loincloths and miniskirts from animal skin. They are also easily distinguishable by their skin; they rub red ochre and fat all over their bodies, which helps protect them from the scorching Namibian sun giving them a brilliant reddish tinge.
PROVERB OF THE WEEK
Rieko loyo teko (Luo)
Translation: Wisdom is better than strength
Meaning: A weak, wise person can reach heights that a strong, unwise person would not dare.
WORD OF THE WEEK
Meaning: Yellow.
Example: Eitobiraki olgilata lenye to rangi sikitoi oo lonyori,naa kesidai oleng.
Translation: Her room is decorated in yellow and green colours, it looks so colourful.
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Special thanks to Stephanie for editing this issue.
Have a great week and thanks for reading. - Mike
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