1871
Mr. Stanley is better. [26th November, 1871.—Sunday. Mr. Stanley has severe fever.] We started at sunset westwards, then northwards for seven hours, and at 4 A.M. reached Lohinga, at the mouth of the Lusizé.
In Lohinga, David Livingstone
1872
As it is Sunday we stay here at N’dari’s village, for we shall be in an uninhabited track to-morrow, beyond the Lofu. The headman cooked six messes for us and begged us to remain for more food, which we buy. He gave us a handsome present of flour and a fowl, for which I return him a present of a doti. Very heavy rain and high gusts of wind, which wet us all.
In N’dari’s Village, David Livingstone
THE LAST JOURNALS OF DAVID LIVINGSTONE, IN CENTRAL AFRICA, FROM 1865 TO HIS DEATH.
CONTINUED BY A NARRATIVE OF HIS LAST MOMENTS AND SUFFERINGS,
OBTAINED FROM HIS FAITHFUL SERVANTS CHUMA AND SUSI,
BY HORACE WALLER, F.R.G.S.,RECTOR OF TWYWELL, NORTHAMPTON.
IN TWO VOLUMES.—VOL. II. [1869–1873]WITH PORTRAIT, MAPS, AND ILLUSTRATIONS.
1942 [undated]
Thembani Shangase did not take not of the Lord’s laws and couldn’t care less. She didn’t like it at all when the Lord said that the people of The Thorn-Bush-that Ensnared should dress according to tradition. She said among other was on in favour of this heathen habit. The Lord laid down a rule that every person who was a member of the Nazarite Church should not buy anything from Msikatshani’s store.
She went straight off and bought things there.
Well, after a while she fell really ill and began to waste away.
/…/
I wanted to experience that extraordinary thing that had never happened before. Indeed on that very day I took hold of the cloth that was used for pryaing over those who were afflicted. I wanted to experience this extraordinary wondrous happening for myself. I really held on tight so that the spirit of the Lord would com.
Indeed it[Themani’s spirit] came forth and said: ‘Ha! I know that you wanted to hear me speak. You see me. I’m not sick neither am I a demon, neither have I fufnyane hysteria, and I haven’t got amandiki either.
It said, ‘I am Thembani Shangase; I’ve died because I was given up by the Lord. That very Johannes Shembe,’ she said, ‘Heaven is his. Me, he threw away, with the church dues I’d given.’ As she spoke she picked bits up from the ground, she said, ‘Here’s my church dues from the girl’s offering, here’s my support money, here’s my money for the [holy] mountain. You gave me up with all my offerings.’ And she got out and jumped up above the house and grabbed the grass thatching and began to eat it.
We grabbed hold of her and she said, ‘Let me eat grass and the seeds of trees because I broke his law, because I bought seed bread and ate it and didn’t care a bit about him. But today I am warning you that he is indeed the only Lord.’
Then she began to sing the song that says, ‘My sins are more numberous than the hairs on my head. Who will rid me of this heavy load?’Congregation of Ideni the Nazarite center, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, Lazarus ‘Phela’* Maphumulo
* Phela short for Phelalasekhaya (House Cockroach)
Lazarus Maphumulo’s Notebook, Unpublished manuscript. Photocopy in Shembe manuscript collection MS380455, Archives, School of Oriental and African Studies, London. Orinigal in Ekuphakameni Archive, Inanda, Durban. Sourced from ‘Diary of Visions’ by Liz Gunner in Africa’s Hidden Histories:
Africa’s Hidden Histories: Everyday Literacy and Making the Self
By Karin Barber
Published by Indiana University Press, 2006
ISBN 0253218438, 9780253218438
2007
Aight people, so I’m discovering the Zimbabwean fashion house Mushe, which is the initiative of a worldly cultured Zimbabwean young woman. She calls it Afropean ..mm interesting here’s the following sentence on her webbie that may explain that term:
“Having African ancestry and living European culture” u got that rite none of us who live abroad can’t deny that Western influence in our behaviour, thoughts, and clothing.
I love the webbie, looove the line, in particular the maternity clothing, so cuteee, a lot of time when African women are preggers we tend 2 be so conservative which is great but a little bit of style can’t hurt either rite..
But Mushe is also a summer and winter collection, w/beautiful colors, clean lines, funky contrast of different fabrics.
Musa believes in reppin for Afrika in her style and in her choice of fabric which I found quite interesting, she believes in the Fair trade of empowring third world countires by using their main resources, it’s interesting to me because she makes a choice 2 comply w/that..
it’s her way of giving back..:)
every way counts people …every action counts
I think her line is really cool, I love it…
it’s good that it’s universal while keeping it’s African spice..u dig
Just 1 thing where are my African sistas..u should get in touch w/Teiko for example who represent for the beautiful African sistas w/curves…for exple….
Love the line, love the concept, would wear these pieces in a heartbeat…
U go girl, keep reppin for us in the NetherlandsHere’s her webbie:
http://www.musheworld.com/Here’s her contact:
afrodivah@xs4all.nlDjaa my Zimbabwean sistas are more fiyaa:)
Eyee Wayeee:)
In Senegal, Yaye Marie Ba
From blog: COSWEAFRICANWOMENAREDOIN&DOINITWELL
