English, ChiTonga and water for the spirits

…we are witnessing an award ceremony at Damba Primary School, a village in the bushland near Manjolo… ...the head mistress of the school speaks about the teaching, and especially on the all over use of the English language in all subject, except for ChiTonga… during her speech a women from the village begins walking around splashing water on the ground… (later I learn that this is a ritual appeasing the ancestral spirits…) From: http://both-sides-of-the-zambezi.tumblr.com/