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KAZANGA

Tatashikanda's Nkoya website

The present website contains many links to texts of books of articles available on Tatashikanda's (Professor Wim van Binsbergen's) other websites. When creating this special Nkoya website, it was not practical to upload all these materials once again in the present domain. Therefore, when opening these external links you are leaving the present website. After downloading and viewing these external texts, hit the 'Back' button of your Internet browser in order to return to the page in the present website from which you opened the link.
   Many files made available from this website are of the PDF type. They can be viewed with Adobe Acrobat, which is freely available at: Acrobat Reader. If you find you still cannot handle PDF files (e.g. because you are working from a cyber café), send us an e-mail specifying which file you cannot read, and we will see if the same file may be made available here in an html or unformatted TXT version.
   Since the documents made available from the present website have not been uploaded in this domain, an internal site search facility here would not help you to find and use the many detailed discussions of aspects of Nkoya culture and history, including personal names, names of clans, streams, places, titles, regalia, artefacts, customs etc. For this purpose, use the powerful internal search engine on Tatashikanda's Shikanda portal (near the bottom of the opening page), where nearly all Tatashikanda's Nkoya materials are to be found.
   Illustration: a Nkoya king's drums photographed at Kazo stream, 1977
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Introduction (homepage)

Kazanga 2004 imminent and other important news

Contact information

Forum on Nkoya culture, history and politics past and present

Likota lya Bankoya: full Nkoya and English version (PDF)

Books and articles on Nkoya culture and history as written by Tatashikanda (Prof. Wim van Binsbergen)

Bibliography of Nkoya people, language, history and culture

Multimedia samples of Nkoya culture and history

Conferences and other Nkoya-related activities

Use and reprint of articles from this website (©)

Kazanga -- Tatashikanda's Nkoya website: Introduction (homepage)

Tambukenu bayeni -- 'Welcome, visitors'

to the first ever Nkoya website to be available on the Internet. With this website the initiator/webmaster, Tatashikanda Kahare (Professor Wim van Binsbergen) seeks to further the following goals:

to help represent the Nkoya identity from western central Zambia (Africa), centring on Kaoma (formerly Mankoya) district
to help circulate important news and other information concerning Nkoya-related activities, including the Annual Kazanga Ceremony in Kaoma district
to further the orderly discussion of historical, linguistic, community and political matters among the Nkoya people and their neighbours and fellow-nationals in Zambia, especially through a discussion forum
to make available important Nkoya texts, especially the Likota lya Bankoya, both in their original Nkoya version and in English translation
to make available most of the books, articles and other texts on Nkoya culture and history which Tatashikanda has written and published ever since he started research among the Nkoya people in 1972
to offer extensive bibliographical resources on publications and unpublished texts relating the Nkoya people, language, history and culture
to offer multimedia contributions to the preservation and presentation of Nkoya culture and history
in future, also Nkoya-related texts by other authors may be made available in this website
currently this website is still in English only with occasional Nkoya texts, but we aspire to make it properly bilingual Nkoya / English in the near future

PLEASE NOTE: In this website we are touching on important and politically sensitive aspects of life in Zambia today and in the past. No one person can have the entire truth, especially not if that person is a relative outsider like Tatashikanda. Therefore, if you feel that certain points of view, or certain facts, are misrepresented or underrepresented here, feel free to contribute to our Forum so as to restore the balance. The orderly public consultation on important community and political matters through informal discussion (kuambola) or formal judicial procedure (nkuta) has been among the time-honoured customs among the Nkoya people; it will also serve us in the future. Meanwhile we apologise to any person or group who feels wrongly represented in this website. If you feel that the matter is too sensitive to discuss in a public forum, do not hesitate to send us a civil e-mail message and we will do our best to correct the mistakes and present a more balanced view in future.

Page last modified on 17-06-04 .

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