Transcript for "Life in fortified villages 1"

Ese John Sakini.

I am John Sakini.

Ndacha alubeka lwe Babukusu khumenya nebakhola chingoba.

I will talk about the living of Bukusus, as they create villages.

Lukoba lwabechangamo omundu omukasa, olinda lukoba olwo.

A village used to have a leader to take care of the vilages.

Ne chingoba chimbofu lwaba lukoba lwe Mulumboka ne lukoba lwe Wachetambe.

The large ones were the Lumboka and Chetambe villages.

Chaba chingoba chimbofu.

They were large villages.

Lukoba lwe Mulumboka lwabamo chikholo choosi.

Lumboka village had all the tribes.

Balulanga bali lukoba lwe Mulumboka.

They called it Lumboka village.

Chikholo chichaba Elumboka ata Batachoni bano babayo, Bayumbu namwe Bamwalie babayo, Omubukusu kabayo, abenabo.

Tachonis were among the tribes that were in Lumboka, Bayumbu/Bamwalie and Bukusus were there.

Nyanga liye neliecha belukha becha Wachetambe.

They run away when war begun, they came to Chetambe.

Nga bola Wachetambe liye omusungu yuno nge aba kaba Mulumboka Babukusu bakhaya omusungu bali sowicha muno ta.

When they reached Chetambe, the white man was at Lumboka and Bukusus refused the white man to be allowed in.

Kamile Kisumu.

Here, he came from Kisumu.

Mala bemba bali, Wanangali wakulecho, Amenyile khukisumu, Ese pebe, ese pebe.

And they sang, "Wanangali the bad one lives in Kisumu, let me be, let me be."

Kaba omusungu kopilo, kopilo bamulanga bali kopilo kaba bali kopilo. Seliaba lisina liewe ta, bukhongo bewewe.

He was a corporal white man, they called him Corporal which was his position and not his name.

Mala nge bola awenao kopilo wakobolayo khucha khubukula kimirundu kiewe.

When they reached there, Corporal went back to take his guns.

Se kalekha aba Bawanga, Omumia keche.

To come, he had left the Wangas, the Mumia.

Mala Bawanga babukula kimirundu nikio kabalekhela ne bakusia Kabuchai womundu bali nani, Takhalisia.

The Wangas took the guns he had left with them, they sold them in Kabuchai to a person known as Takhalisia.

Aya oli kecha anyola sindu mbao, ne kecha alazimisia bandu becha nono Wachetambe abano belukhe.

When he came back, he found nothing, he came and forced people to go to Chetambe, the other ones had run away.