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Kasiyembe then calls upon Nkuba, the lightning deity, to hurl lightning at Mwindo. Unbeknownst to them, however, Mukiti had already instructed his ally, Kasiyembe, to set multiple pit traps on the floors of Iyangura's house.
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It begins strangling Mwindo, but at the last minute he knocks it away with his scepter. After a while, his path is blocked by Musoka, the sister-in-law of Iyangura, under the orders of Mukiti the river deity, Musoka's brother and Iyangura's husband. The UDR-Mwinda was founded in October 1992. 129 likes. It is not unusual for the bard to throw in some narrative not native to the story detailing his own life and his own personal experiences. They say they will help if Mwindo makes them a snack.
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To tell the story properly the bard acts out all the parts and does not refrain from being very animated in his dances and acting.
She falls in love with Mwindo and agrees to help him beat her father. Félix Tshisekedi victime du syndrome Sassou Lissouba. One by one, Mwindo dances down the middle of each trap but does not fall due to the intervention of Master Spider.
Please feel free to get in touch via the form below, we will get back to you as soon as possible. Almost immediately, seven lightning bolts obliterate the village burning its inhabitants to ashes. lrouster@ecmafrica.og (Missionary Lorella Rouster, Mwinda Project Coordinator).
He has three brass thrones made, which float ten feet off the ground. [2], Along with UPADS and the Rally for Democracy and Development (RDD), the UDR-Mwinda formed the Alliance for the New Republic on May 11, 2007. One of Mwindo's uncles barely escapes with his life, and reports back at camp.
Shemwindo goes to a kikota-plant, uproots it (revealing a deep pit), and descends. RFI--Radio France International sur le Congo (2019) Zenga-Mambu (Brazzaville, Congo) Un site d'actualités congolaises, avec un grand recueil des interviews en format vidéo et audio, en plus des images. Mwindo agrees.
He brings them twelve enormous bowls, cut from tree trunks, full of good things to eat. Meanwhile, Shemwindo barely escapes the destruction. Shemwindo gets away. Shemwindo soon learns of the birth and tries to kill the boy in several ways. After accomplishing these deeds, Mwindo tells his aunt that he plans to return to his home village alone the next day. The audience will often sing along with the narrator and the percussionists during the songs, and repeat certain lines of the story while the narrator pauses between sections. [4] In the parliamentary election held on 26 May and 23 June 2002, the party won 6 out of 137 seats in the National Assembly. Mwindo simply waves his conga-scepter singing his magic songs. Almost instantly, enough food is magically brought from Tubondo to feed Mwindo's entire camp.
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Kasiyembe repents and acknowledges Mwindo's superiority. ... Lingala is a national language in the Democratic Republic of Congo… read more.
Nkuba hurls seven consecutive lightning strikes but all attempts—barely—miss.
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Shemwindo is brought forth in chains.
She then instructs Mwindo to go ahead to her house. Mwindo returns with the harvested bananas, but Muisa says he must still do one more task.
Finally he bets his conga scepter and begins winning everything back, until he owns all the Sky God's town and his father's life. Undeterred, Mwindo wishes to go to his aunt's home anyway. He then wagers all his people, even his mother and his aunt, and loses. Mwindo goes to the village center and calls upon Nkuba, the lightning god, while raising his conga-scepter to the heavens. A version of the story was recorded by Kahombo Mateene and Daniel Biebuyck and published in 1969. But Mwindo simply digs under the river's sandy floor, reemerging after passing by Musoka, and continues on his quest. Copyright © 2020 Congo Mwinda Project — Mins WordPress theme by. At the congress, Guy Kinfoussia Romain, a retired military officer, was elected as President of the UDR-Mwinda; in addition, a political bureau and a 150-member national council were elected.
He must grow a banana forest and harvest the fruit—all in one day. [7], "Congo Brazzaville : Décès d'André Milongo Nsatouabantu", "Vie des partis : L'UDR-Mwinda se dote de nouvelles instances de direction", IPU PARLINE page on the 1993 parliamentary election, "L'alliance présidentielle occupe 125 des 137 sièges parlementaires", "Trois partis politiques de l'opposition créent l'Alliance pour une nouvelle République", "Three Congolese opposition parties withdraw from electoral commission", Political parties in the Republic of the Congo, Congolese Movement for Democracy and Integral Development, Patriotic Union for Democracy and Progress, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Union_for_Democracy_and_the_Republic_(Republic_of_the_Congo)&oldid=933050365, 1992 establishments in the Republic of the Congo, Articles with French-language sources (fr), Articles with dead external links from July 2016, Articles with permanently dead external links, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 29 December 2019, at 18:13. Shemwindo's punishment is to live the rest of his life watching his son be a better ruler than he was. Meanwhile, a group of Iyangura's maidens, who had been gathering water in a nearby watering hole, witness them.
As soon as Mwindo exits the tunnel at his aunt's home, Kasiyembe challenges him to a dancing contest in the hopes that the boy will fall into at least one of the pit traps which contain razor-sharp spikes down below. Romain spoke on this occasion of the party's continuing opposition to the Congolese Party of Labour-led government and said that the UDR-Mwinda wanted "to play a major role within the Alliance for the New Republic", an opposition coalition. When Mwindo learns of this, he goes down to the underworld the same way his father, Shemwindo did. The chieftain has already escaped, back to the world by another tunnel. He cures Ntumba of elephantiasis.