This year’s Ukusefya Pa Ngw’ena Traditional Ceremony of the Bemba people in Northern Province will take place from September 18 to 21 in Mungwi District.
The ceremony, which was initially set for August 22 to 24, was postponed after the death of Republican President Levy Mwanawasa at Percy Military Hospital in France on August 19.
Paramount Chief Chitimukulu announced the new dates for the Ukusefya Pa Ngw’ena traditional ceremony in a letter addressed to Acting Provincial Permanent Secretary, Gabriel Kaunda, signed by organising Committee Secretary, Chola Chilekwa, and made available to ZANIS in Kasama today.
And Mungwi District Commissioner, Fanwell Bwembya, told ZANIS that preparations for the Ukusefya Pa Ngw’ena Bemba traditional ceremony have reached an advanced stage.
Mr Bwembya, however, said the road leading to the ceremony has been changed due to the ongoing rehabilitation works on the bridge connecting to the main arena via Paramount Chief Chitimukulu’s palace.
He has since advised people wishing to witness the event to use the Nseluka-Chimba road, which is off the Kasama-Mbala main road in order to reach the main arena.
The district commissioner, further, appealed to the business community and other well-wishers to contribute generously towards the successful hosting of the traditional ceremony.
Acting President, Rupiah Banda, is expected to officiate at this year’s Ukusefya Pa Ngw’ena Bemba Traditional Ceremony.
Last year, the late President Mwanawasa graced both the installation of the incumbent Paramount Chief Chitimukulu and the ceremony in Mungwi.
And acting President, Rupiah Banda, is next week expected in Northern Province for a
Three day official visit.
According to a programme released to ZANIS in Kasama today by the Provincial Administration, Mr Banda is expected to arrive at Kasama Airport on September 20 at about 08:30 hours.
After the ceremony, the Acting President is scheduled to meet Paramount Chief Chitimukulu, other Bemba Chiefs and later MMD provincial officials.
On September 21st, Mr Banda will depart Kasama for Mpulungu where he will hold meetings with Lungu Chiefs and MMD district officials.
Mr Banda, who is MMD presidential candidate, will later hold a Presidential rally in the area ahead
of the by-election on October 30.
The following day, on September 22, the Acting President will pay courtesy calls on Senior Chief Kopa and Bisa
Chiefs before addressing a public rally.
ZANIS/ENDS/WS/SJK
Celebrating on a crocodile? ma bemba aba utwi (tabomfwa kwena)
#1 Take your jokes to politics,ala umwana ashumfwa amenene umwefu mukutwi.
Pa Ng’wena in this case is not the crocodile per se but the place where our forefathers found a dead crocodile and Chitimukulu (the Youngest and most norotious of them all) ursurped power from the elder brothers while they were still (neck deep) crossing the river.
Even in Kola he is the one who brought all of them into trouble, and had his eldest brother blinded by his furious father Mukulumpe because of what chiti did.
Mwautwa mina? Litumezi sha, amusyale foo.
Have you seen how RB is going full out to meet the Chiefs? I urge the PF and UPND to watch out. RB is campaining directly in the battleground at grassroot level. Follow suit
No. 3 KASAMA BOY NIITUMEZI FOR THE INFO.
Ukusefya pa n’gwena ala lubemba kudos to the organisers and let me wish good health to mwine lubemba paramount chief chiti mukulu chilufya 2. We are going to celebrate with ba mbuya ba Bwezani.
Citi Citi chamutunga umunwe mulinso chamulenga no mona ukupompa. kwenda kushintukila amenso mumbali, panshi pali umukuba wa tata umwanda.
The truth pains, sorry PF and UPND supporters,RB is going to win. Now Cycle Mata wants to use HH to go to state house, if you don’t believe me ask PF members of parliament esp matero MP how she was treated after campaining fo Cycle Mata.
# 5 that is the spirit, thanks a lot.
1977-1979, I used to guzzle sipeso and kacipembe, kwa Mulambwa harbour sha, or in Limulunga la makuwa. Using komoki yoinyani fela. eating bread from Katundu’s bakery and buying sweets from Simioti’s shop.
We the new generation believe in One Zambia, one nation, one nation one Chipolopolo, one chipolopolo- one aim, and that aim- to watch Chipolopolo at Angola and especially SA 2010.
By the way the info was for general consumption and thanks a lot.
Ninshi abena Chitimukulu bali ni bamambala sana ka? By the way, Kasama boy is the only one who has spelled NG’WENA correctly. LT got it wrong!
How come the years there was no Ukusefya pa NG’WENA? When I was at school I never lent about this in my Bemba.
kusefya abena kapila kusefya, abalozi, abangoni, bantubotatwe, abalunda pa luapula bonse balesefya. elomona nomba fweka fye fwe ba bemba tatwalesefya and look at how bemba culture influences national culture we had to come up with a ceremony to show case ourselves.so kusefya
Interesteing history right there…Let the Bemba”s do their thing… is Sata going to attend??? or maybe he is from Luapula???# 8 i agree with you, that Mateor MP lady was not treated fairly n she is Sata’s niece… chabulanda mwe…
The thing of meeting the chiefs must be watched closely, it is not a myth that in the past brown envelopes were delivered to the chiefs, watch out for VJ’s hand in this campaign tactic. By the way ba mudala ba Sata is from Chitulika in Mpika, technically he is a subject of the mwine Lubemba and as such he is entitled to attend the Crocodile thing as a royal subject, no one would chase him as they did when he followed the moving coffin!
#3 in addition there mother, Mumbi Lyulu Mukasa who came from the Mukulu tribe belonged to the Ng’wena clan. Symbolically, they felt welcome. And remember they were soon to change their succession from patrilineal, (you mentioned their father Mukulumpe) to matrilineal, been succeded by their maternal nephews as they do up to today.
in # 15, I meant “their” mother, not “there..”
# 11, everything has a begining, and traditional ceremonies are based on charters,ie, a people’s story, a good example is the biblical story of Exodus and experience of the Israelites.
From the charter you can re-enact in commemoration your story, hoping that it is not re-activated retrogressively. Thanks to the inginuity of the fore-runners in this respect; the Lozis, Ngonis, luvales and Luapula Lundas for their beutiful ceremonies!
#3 Excellent information. Lets share what we have on the Zambian heritage.
#13, Faustina Sinyangwe Matero MP is a disgrace, she is one stubborn person you wouldnt want to be your teacher. Yes even we the pipo that have stayed in matero before have come to realize we put a non matero resident who knows very little about matero. i bet if she resigned from PF and bye elections are held, she will no where be near national assembly. she dragged sata to court so what do u expect the cobra to do, spit. Batila ati tekwesha kwingisha munwe obe mu bwendo bwaka ngoshe lupola.
Ba Quarte what a name, but thanks for the rich info on the ceremonies. Big Up!! Kusefya, every one is sefy’ing!!
Natusefye, natwangwe ciponde namutaka!! Awe umo akapashila twasuka twa fikako. Lekeni shakapanga, ushalubile apale ibumba lya Kusefya pa Ng’wena organising committee. Tuleti kuku mukwai!!
Napita mukwai.
# 11 this ceremony has been there all along. Its just that some years back it was not that much publicised so very few people beyong the bemba realm knew about its existence. Unlike the Kuomboka which had been well publicised and turned into a proper tourist attraction even beyond the country’s borders, the Bembas sort of kept it like a closed event till recently when it was realised that it could actually be publicised. Thats when you ve started seeing invitations to government and chiefs from other ereas!
Natusefye bane no Bwato…go Sata go hehehe!!!!!!!!!!!!
Kanabesa Mulopwe bamfumu ba Chiti Mukulu,lesa tata uushalubile ka alemyafya epo muletungulula ulupwa ulushaikulila nganshi ulwa Chibemba…napita mukwai…
“Mwapoleni,akulile umushi”
Please, can you tell me what “mwapoleni akulile umushi ” means ? Which language is it ?
Im Bemba, but never been to this one!
I want to see all the ceremonies for myself…
I want to start with the Kuomboka…i have even started learning Lozi, ….Ensha, Mwiketile…!?
Next is Tonga, then Luvale….!!! YEP!!!!!!!!!
FYI….The bemba Royal estabilishment is also called abena Ng’andu (or abean n’gwena or the crocodile clan)….
Viva C
Chitimukulu
#26 True. Pliz LT give me my proper identity. I need my meanigful Zambian flag te yabena fyalo nakana. Awe!
Never attended the ceremony but intending to in future.
I have found the postings extremely helpful and mature. We all need to head to Kasama for the ceremony. Naufya bwino sana. Even aba Lozi nabo nabatemwa. Lwitumezi ahalu. Here is some Lozi in English ” Can’t King Kuhu (Chicken) High Such Rice” LT give me a Zambian flag too. I blog from the motherland in Lusaka
#21 are you from Mpanda, Makasa area, by any chance?
TO ALL OF YOU…Is anyone attending the ceremony? Howz about some photos for some of us in the diaspora? Any generosity will be highly appreciated and received with a prayer!!!
Eeh bane tausefye chilile nandubwi. Bane bonse bambuya besu abena Chipata ukwabula nokulaba aba Lozi naba Tonga bene ala bane iseni kululemba tusefeshye chapamo.
Ba chitimukulu,
mwine lubemba,mwine Mporokoso libali kwi Tabwa, Chilufya Chilolo
Inshilaikampa, Shimulala kwachenama
Mwine mushi wakosa nge libwe
We ulishya umunsoli na manshi mukanwa
Wewa sontele ubukala ku kabanga abaku masamba bonse baimita
MWAPOLENI MUKWAI
Ubupuba ba Don naimwe, but mwansekesha
#32 theres nothing wrong wit what Don has written. Thats how thebembas lumba thenselves.
Don wachishako ati: ‘Nimwe chishiki chishingilile abalenya’!!!