• Welcome - Takulandirani
• Claude Boucher Chisale and Kungoni Centre of Culture and Art
• When Animals Sing and Spirits Dance (the Book)
• More Gule Characters
• Kasiya Maliro (the DVD) and Video Clips
• Further Material
• Credits, Links and Contacts

1 History and politics

Bambo Bushi
Dumbo Achembe
Makanja

2 Community, authority and the ancestors

Mariya and Chadzunda
Mdondo
Mkango
Njinga yabwera
Njovu

3 Sexuality, fertility and marriage

Kasiya maliro
Mfumu yalimbira
Nyata

4 Childbirth and parenthood

Malodza

5 Health, food and death

Ali n’matekenya
Tsokonombwe

6 Witchcraft and medicines

Adapundula
Bokho
Mfiti ilaula

7 Personal attributes

Am’na a chamba
Chinsinga
Kamvuluvulu

Characters not in the Book

Akuchilekwa
Januwale
Mwalimu – Chiuli
Sitiope mame

Ceremonies

Azimu – Kubwebweta / Spirit possession
Chinamwali / Initiation
Chizangala / Festival
Dambule / Commemoration of all the dead
Maliro / Funeral
Kugwetsa nyumba / Destruction of the deceased’s house
Ufumu – Manyumba / Chieftainship

 

Kugwetsa nyumba

 

Maliro