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Culture

The best known dance is the traditional one called makishi, performed by male dancers wearing a sort of mesh of vegetable fibers and stylized masks with human features. Traditional music is played with wooden drums and xylophones. One of the most important ancient festivals in southern Africa is the Kuomboka, which celebrates the journey of the litunga (king lozi) from his residence during the dry season in Lealui, near Mongu, to Limulunga, his residence during the rainy season. The festival takes place between the end of March and the beginning of April. The protagonist of the event is nalikwanda, a huge wooden canoe on which the king travels, moved by over a hundred rowers. Festivals related to traditional music and dance are Ukusefya pa Ng’wena, in northern Zambia (August), and N’cwala near Kasama (February). The literary manifestations of Zambia, once exclusively oral, have seen, starting from the 1950s, the rise of a production written in six vernacular languages ​​ (bemba, tonga, luvali, lozi, tumbuka, lenje), plus English. The one in the Bemba language is the richest; the most notable author is SA Mpashi. English literature has long been dominated by the personality of President Kaunda, who in a series of writings has given his own philosophy of African humanism as an ideology and guide to national development. Among the narrators we mention E. Kaavu and FM Mulikita. A small anthology has revealed some poets, including M. Kasese (b. 1932), CL Mulenga (b. 1935), A. Kanduza (b. 1947). In the seventies and eighties there is the theatrical work of GP Kabwe Kasoma (b.1933) who writes in several local languages, as well as English and pidgin. The Chikwakwa theater movement has also given a significant boost to popular theater. The food base is made up of nshima, a kind of corn puree that accompanies vegetables or beans, meat or fish. Check plus-size-tips to see Zambia Travel Package.

Arts

Among the ethnic groups of this nation, the Lunda and Chokwe groups stand out from the point of view of artistic production; the styles of these two groups, despite having reciprocally and considerably influenced each other, nevertheless maintain their own identity. Typically Chokwe art is characterized by a massive appearance in wooden plastic; a recurring peculiarity is the monumental development of the hairstyle, a symbol of social and virile power. The lunda style, on the other hand, is also influenced by Luba influences, is characterized by round and full shapes and its naturalism tends to a refined preciousness. The chokwe and lunda have in common, in addition to some stylistic traits, a preference for genre scenes and for zoomorphic motifs; in some regions the characteristics are confused to the point of allowing to identify a hybrid style. As for contemporary art, Henry Tayali (1943-1987) can be considered the progenitor of the new artists, among which we can mention Agnes Yombwe (b. 1966), who also uses natural materials, traditional ceramics and fabrics, the painter Shadreck Simukanga and Stephen Kapata.