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Recordist's notes
Mrs. Namunkolo continues describing in detail the “Kumbuka” ceremony of the Lozi people a ritual crossing of the Zambezi river twice a year by the King and the royal household… The entire playlist of recordings from ZNBC audio archives can be found at: https://archive.org/details/Voices_from_Lusaka_453 From: http://both-sides-of-the-zambezi.tumblr.com/
About the place
Lusaka is a city of about 2,212,301 people in Lusaka Province, Zambia. OttoAnna lists 26 field recordings from here.
Recorded nearby
We are in the audio archives
Lusaka, Zambia
Rich cultural information
Lusaka, Zambia
Yvonne Sishuwa aka Winter celebrates her ancestry place, her…
Lusaka, Zambia
I’ve managed to survive…
Lusaka, Zambia
Traditional teachings in multimedia
Lusaka, Zambia
We’ve lost the ties to the village…
Lusaka, Zambia
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Radio Dialogues's procession
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Sources & credits
- “Mass Media Centre, ZNBC, Lusaka, Zambia - Kumbuka, crossing the Zambezi...” by radio continental drift – CC BY-SA 3.0 · radio aporee ::: maps via Internet Archive
- Reverse geocoding: GeoNames – CC BY 4.0