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August 30, 2005
Festival Mania
Okay, so it has been a rough weekend and beginning of the week, but I got to see something really awesome on Saturday. My friend Mathew and I went to Eastern Province (a nightmarish bus ride through the twistiest turniest area of Zambia on the Great East Road) for a tribal festival of the Chewa. I think that I might be spelling that wrong, but basically it is an annual festival to honor the paramount chief of the whole tribe. The Chewa people live in Eastern Zambia, Malawi, and Mozambique. People travel from all over Chewa land to honor him with dancing and songs and presentations of gifts and such. Outside of the fesitval grounds are food vendors, Zambian carnies calling to you to gamble and play games, and just general big-crowd meyham. Anyway, apart from the flat tire on the bus (and they had no spare and had to take one of the dooley wheels off and use it), it was an awesome experience. I have Mathew to thank really; he's the one who convinced me to go. I'm sure there will be pictures sometime, but I have no idea when! Oh, if you haven't gotten replies from me about packages and letters I've received, it might be because I haven't received them. There is a diesel shortage in Zambia and mail is having issues. I'm sure I'll get everything eventually, but outgoing mail is stopped-up too.
Posted by ringo at August 30, 2005 4:11 PM
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Posted by: Andi at September 1, 2005 5:30 AM