The lost language of Zambia was invented by women, but was killed by colonization

The tool box of wooden hunters written with an ancient writing system from Zambia prepares waves in social media.

“We said that we say how Africans would not know how to read and write,” Samba Yonga is one of the founders of the History Museum of History of Zambia.

“But it was completely side by side and we had the way of writing the eye and we have the way,” he told BBC.

This was one of the works of art launched in the form of an online campaign that revitalizes the cultural heritage, which is almost deleted by colonialism in the form of communities.

Another interesting object is a complex decorated skin cover that is not seen in Zambia more than 100 years.

“The artifacts are a history, which is important, and a history of unknown,” Yonga.

“Our relations with our cultural heritage were violated and hid with the colonial experience.

“He is also shocked by the role of women.”

However, Yonga said, “Yonga says that we are between our cultural heritage and whether we are among them, fashion, music or academic research.

“Our beauty had his own language and beauty,” he says. “We had ways we care about our health and our surroundings. We had welfare, unity, respect and intellect.”

A total of 50 objects have been placed on social media – Information and objectives of their importance and purpose, women often visited the center of the belief systems of a society and the concept of natural world.

The images of the facilities are presented inside a frame – play in the idea that a picture of a picture can affect how you view and understand. In the same way, the English colonialism has distorted the histories of Zambia – by the destruction of systemic noise and local wisdom and practice.

The framework project uses social media to oppose the general opinion of African societies, still in general.

The bodies were mainly held in the colonial and detained in museums, including museums around the world, including Sweden, including this current social media project in 2019.

Yonga, visited the capital, Stockholm and a friend, one of his curators offered to meet with Michael Barrett National museums of world cultures in Sweden.

He did, and when he asked any country, Yonga was surprised to hear that the museum was a lot of Zambian works.

“I really came to my mind, so I asked:” There are a lot of artifacts in the collection of a country that has not colonized in Zambia? “”

In the early 19th and early 20th century, Swedish researchers, ethnographers and botanists will travel to Cape Town and then pay for a walk through the railway and foot.

The museum collected with the march of a century has about 650 cultural facilities – as well as about 300 historical photographs.

As long as Yonga and his virtual museum examined the archives of the co-founder Mulenga Kapwepwe, they were amazed to find out that Swedish collectors went far and wide – some artifacts are still remotely and difficult to reach.

There are 20 leather clothes in the collection during the vibration of rush fishing baskets, ceremonial masks, containers, waistbones and 1911-191212.

Batwa is made of men from a Lechwe antelope’s skin and is worn by women or used to protect their babies from elements by women.

“Geometric patterns, carefully, elegant and beautifully,” said, outside the treasure.

There are pictures of women wearing the kingles and a 300-page notebook that brought the company to Sweden – ETTNOGE Eric Van Rosen.

The nodes also drew the descriptions of the women who were founded and women wearing clothes differently.

“Klingan made great pain to show all angles and the means of use and the means of the vehicles used and the vehicles used and located.”

The Swedish Museum did not investigate any research on clothes – and the National Council of Museums was not aware that they exist.

Thus, Yonga and Kapwepwe went to learn more from the society in the Northeast of the country in the northeastern country of the country.

Yonga says, “There is no memory of it,” he says. “Everyone who has knowledge about creating special kniteness – this leather clothes – or realized that history is no longer.

“Thus, in this frozen time, it was available in the Swedish Museum.”

One of the personal favorites in the Yongan Framework Project is an end or Tusona, ancient, developed and now a rarely used writing system.

This is from the people of Chokwe, Luchazi and Luvale, Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Yonga, Luchazi and Luvale living in the north-western region.

Geometric patterns are made in the sand, glands and in the body of people. Or wooden masks used in Makishi, Makishi’s ancestral mask – and wooden boxes used to store tools when people are hunted.

Examples and symbols are mathematical principles, spaces, nature and environmental instructions, as well as community life instructions.

Sonic’s original guardians and teachers were women and still remembering how he works, there are elders of society.

He is a great source of knowledge of research by scientists such as Yonga’s Sona and Paulus Gerdes, Yonga.

“The end is one of the most popular social media posts – with people who express the surprise and great excitement, ‘I liked, what? How are it possible?'”

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Hands have a stone used to grind a grain, growing a meal.

Researchers of the Zambian Women’s History Museum, the stone stone was discovered during a field trip, which is more than a kitchen instrument.

It belonged to the woman who used only – not to pass. Instead, the woman was put on the grave as a grave stone for the contribution of the society for food safety.

“It may seem like a stone stone, in fact, the symbol of women’s power,” Yonga says.

In 2016, the Zambian Women’s Historical Museum was established Documenting and archiving the history of women and local knowledge.

The communities are investigating and creates an online archive of items carried out outside of Zambia.

“We are still trying to collect a joke without holding all the pieces – we are hunting a treasure.”

A treasure hunting that changed Yongan’s life is a way that the framework is hoping to do the social media project for other people.

“I have a sense of my society, historically, political, social, emotionally changed the interaction in the world.”

Penny Dale is a free journalist, podcast and documentary located in London