A Taste of Lozi Food in Zimbabwe
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Lozi Culture has with it an array of mouth-watering foods that leave one craving for more, from the staple dish of Buhobe (Isitshwala/Sadza/Hadza) to the majestic Zambezi/Matetsi River Tapi/LiTapi (Fish). As shown by our guest Phineas Mathe who doubles as the village headman and animal tracker, the Lozi Food Culture is extraordinary. In this documentary, we get to discuss the different cultural lessons and traditions surrounding the Lozi culture and get a highlight of the Silozi language which has got similar dialects with the SeSotho and SeTswana language groups. This excursion to the northwestern side of Zimbabwe, surely made us appreciative of the diversity and uniqueness of our food culture.
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Im from SA limpopo and we are called balozwi aka balobedu led by the rain Queen Modjadji
As a Mosotho I can hear every word he says....... We're one thing
We are definitely ONE
Because the Lozi language as spoken now comes from South Africa. Specifically, a man called Sebetwane, a mufokeng, fled a violent conflict he had become embroiled in, with Queen Mma Nthatisi. He took his people Sotho clan, who became called Makololo, north through Botswana, crossing the Zambezi in either 1838 or 1839, going West into the Zambezi plains, where he found and conquered the peaceful Luyi who had arrived from the Lunda Empire of the DRC about 200 years earlier. Sebetwane died and was succeeded by his son Sekeletu as ruler of these people. It was young Sekeletu who took the Scottish traveller David Livingstone to the Shungu Namutitima Falls, which the Kololo had named "musi o tunya". When the arrogant white man got there, he promptly decided to call the falls "Victoria Falls". In 1864, the Luyi revolted against the tyranny of the Kololo, killing the men, but marrying the women and adopting the children. The Kololo women ensured the propagation of their language by teaching it to successive generations of the Lozi people. The Luyi language all but died, and only a few people in the royal families of the Lozi might know how to speak it. I am not Lozi but I was born in Western Province Zambia, and so I speak Lozi fluently
Me2 😊
I am lozi and l am very impressed with this documentary.........so Lozi is an international language, when l was in school in South Africa back then l could communicate with the Tswana and Sotho
That's fantastic my IPS, indeed LOZI language is international. ❤️❤️🙏🙏🙏
Thank you so much for watching this documentary.
Ke kopa hoba a friend of yours, I wanna learn more, nna I'm Mosotho from Lesotho
The language has great similarities to SeSotho, I had a Zambian Lozi friend who told me that he actually understands SeSotho without having to learn the language.
Very similar dialects Mbekezeli
Barotseland is Lesotho Number 2.
They are actually very similar people,
That's because the Lozi were ruled by the Kololo (a sub group of the sotho-tswana people) under Sebetwane and his children after him for 20 years. Part of the legacy of this rule is in the lozi language
Not sotho but tswana
I'm a Tswana speaking person and I can understand him speaking Lozi without subtitles. This is so beautiful✨✨
Because the Lozi language as spoken now comes from South Africa. Specifically, a man called Sebetwane, a mufokeng, fled a violent conflict he had become embroiled in, with Queen Mma Nthatisi. He took his people Sotho clan, who became called Makololo, north through Botswana, crossing the Zambezi in either 1838 or 1839, going West into the Zambezi plains, where he found and conquered the peaceful Luyi who had arrived from the Lunda Empire of the DRC about 200 years earlier. Sebetwane died and was succeeded by his son Sekeletu as ruler of these people. It was young Sekeletu who took the Scottish traveller David Livingstone to the Shungu Namutitima Falls, which the Kololo had named "musi o tunya". When the arrogant white man got there, he promptly decided to call the falls "Victoria Falls". In 1864, the Luyi revolted against the tyranny of the Kololo, killing the men, but marrying the women and adopting the children. The Kololo women ensured the propagation of their language by teaching it to successive generations of the Lozi people. The Luyi language all but died, and only a few people in the royal families of the Lozi might know how to speak it. I am not Lozi but I was born in Western Province Zambia, and so I speak Lozi fluently
I'm a mopedi from limpopo and i can hear clearly when the man speaks lozi language.
Because the Lozi language as spoken now comes from South Africa. Specifically, a man called Sebetwane, a mufokeng, fled a violent conflict he had become embroiled in, with Queen Mma Nthatisi. He took his people Sotho clan, who became called Makololo, north through Botswana, crossing the Zambezi in either 1838 or 1839, going West into the Zambezi plains, where he found and conquered the peaceful Luyi who had arrived from the Lunda Empire of the DRC about 200 years earlier. Sebetwane died and was succeeded by his son Sekeletu as ruler of these people. It was young Sekeletu who took the Scottish traveller David Livingstone to the Shungu Namutitima Falls, which the Kololo had named "musi o tunya". When the arrogant white man got there, he promptly decided to call the falls "Victoria Falls". In 1864, the Luyi revolted against the tyranny of the Kololo, killing the men, but marrying the women and adopting the children. The Kololo women ensured the propagation of their language by teaching it to successive generations of the Lozi people. The Luyi language all but died, and only a few people in the royal families of the Lozi might know how to speak it. I am not Lozi but I was born in Western Province Zambia, and so I speak Lozi fluently
It’s amazing that here in America Lozi food,they call it organic food and it’s the most expensive food u can get, while back home it’s our stable meal, Africa is blessed , keep up the good work my brother 👏👏👏👏🇿🇼🇺🇸
Hie Khaya. Yes you are correct, Africa is truly blessed.
what are you talking about? Americans do not eat Lozi food
Na ni Mulozi, ndate ki Mulozi wa kwa Namibia, kwa tuko nni Zambezi,
Its quit good hearing such a strong lozi after not hearing it for 25 years, i live in Capetown, and speak Afrikaans since its my mother toung, and i ate all those foods you showed in there mow i miss my lozi foods.
I'm a Lozi from Caprivi too/Kalimbeza
I am Pedi/Northern Sotho and I have no doubt Ba Lozi and us are one thing; including tswanas and Basotho from Lesotho. Our origin is indeed the drc
I agree with you I am both Tswana and Pedi and I feel so empowered by this video
Morafe
I’m a Xhosa speaking, I understand Sesotho and Tshwana pretty well .. this language is a combination of both languages and differs in accent .. I wish to meet you when I visit Africa I’m impressed by your content big up bro keep on digging
Wow, thank you so much. Would be honoured.
Unyanisile Mntase iam mXhosa fluent in sepedi,setswana and sepedi this language is similar to the Sotho languages
@@mankgabanemantlaneni2438 History according to scholars: SiLozi is a mixture of SeKololo and a bit of SiLuyana (our original language before the brief colonisation of the Lozi Kingdom by the Makololo (a Sotho tribe) from 1830 to 1860). SeKololo was a 'Sotho language' with a bit of Setswana mix because the MaKololo tribe absorbed some Tswana tribes on their way to Zambia from South Africa. Next, European missionary schools such as the French who came to the Lozi Kingdom from the South (1870s?) preached and instructed in Sotho (I'm not sure which Sotho language), which further reinforced the Sotho element of the SiLozi language. Hence the exact composition of the SiLozi language possibly varies with region. 🙏🏿
And very much closer to balozwi aka balobedu, even the accent is quite similar.
I'm a Lozi in Zambia. I didn't even know there are Lozis in Zim. This is so amazing. Thanks for the educative video! 🙂
Thanks for watching!
Almost Every Zambian Language Is spoken in Zimbabwe, Every South African Language Is Spoken In Zimbabwe, Every Botswana langauge is also spoken in Zimbabwe.
Brother, we have 73 languages in Zambia, it's mainly the Southern border regions where you find the most linguistic overlap between our countries. i.e Mbunda, Luvale, Lovale, Bisa, Kwangwa, Nkoya etc are these found in Zimbabwe?
@@user-vw6bk4pb4lstop being a dick
You know what he meant🙄
@@33Camden100% facts. Zim is the centre
You forgot Mozambican languages in Zim eg manyika
Omg this is so beautiful. Lozi is a very interesting culture and language. I always say Zimbabwe is an amalgamtion of Southern Africa in one country which makes sense because we are right in the middle of the region.
Very interesting language.
You are the first and last person to describe Zimbabwe in the best way ever
True
Very true. We are truly the melting pot of Southern Africa
Absolutely not. The Lozi are Zambian, although they are also Namibian. The people you see here moved from Zambia to Zimbabwe during the federation of Rhodesia and Nyansaland. There are no Lozi who are indigenous to Zimbabwe. The melting pot of people is Zambia. This is where the Sotho conquered the Congolese Luyi, who are now the Lozi people. At the same time they were doing this, the Ngoni under Zwangendaba were conquering the Chewa in Eastern Province Zambia. The Luyi came from the Lunda Empire of DRC, the Chewa came from the Luba Empire of the DRC. The Sotho/Kololo were led into Zambia by Sebetwane, who with his son, Sekeletu, who succeeded him as king, are buried in Zambia, where the former died of natural causes, and the latter of the vengeance of the Luyi who revolted in 1864, under a man called Sipopa, and killed all the Sotho/Kololo men, leaving the Sotho women and their children to be married to Luyi men, and the Sotho children adopted into those families. Zwangedaba was killed in 1845 after being shot with a poisoned arrow by the Ufupi people of Tanzania. He is appropriately buried on the Zambian side of the Tanzania-Zambia border. As you can see, Zambia has indigenous Nguni people in Eastern Province, and Sotho/Kololo people in Western Province.
Siyabonga Thamsanqa, Melusi, Ishu and everybody part of this. Godonga siyabonga ngokusisa Hwange from our couches. Akusetshenzwe!!!!!
Siyabonga kakhulu Ndlovu.
Some Balozi migrated from Basotho and moved to Zambia via Botswana under the leadership King Sebetwane .
This is because the Lozi language as spoken now comes from South Africa. Specifically, a man called Sebetwane, a mufokeng, fled a violent conflict he had become embroiled in, with Queen Mma Nthatisi. He took his people Sotho clan, who became called Makololo, north through Botswana, crossing the Zambezi in either 1838 or 1839, going West into the Zambezi plains, where he found and conquered the peaceful Luyi who had arrived from the Lunda Empire of the DRC about 200 years earlier. Sebetwane died and was succeeded by his son Sekeletu as ruler of these people. It was young Sekeletu who took the Scottish traveller David Livingstone to the Shungu Namutitima Falls, which the Kololo had named "musi o tunya". When the arrogant white man got there, he promptly decided to call the falls "Victoria Falls". In 1864, the Luyi revolted against the tyranny of the Kololo, killing the men, but marrying the women and adopting the children. The Kololo women ensured the propagation of their language by teaching it to successive generations of the Lozi people. The Luyi language all but died, and only a few people in the royal families of the Lozi might know how to speak it. I am not Lozi but I was born in Western Province Zambia, and so I speak Lozi fluently
This just made me realize how diverse Africa is. I don't know the language but I can definitely understand what they are saying.
Very diverse Sereputjane Mashaakgomo
My mother is of Lozi decent. Thank you for this.
Thank you for watching Busiso.
We eat the same food in Kenya, the corn meal is called Ugali, cassava leaves, and also call the elephant as enjofu/Intovu that is in western Kenya. Kwaheri (Bye bye!).
I like your work Mr Mahlangu, big up to you. From your videos you have dispelled the stereotype of Zimbabwe as a two language country. I can definitely understand your conversation between you and Mathe without subtitles.
This language is mixture of setswana and sesotho, they only lost their dialect or ascent. Now they sounds like mostly foreigners from Malawi who try to speak setswana in SA. Now I have realized that Sotho and Nguni languages if properly developed can unite Southern Africa.
Really humbled by your comment. Thank you for watching.
The Lozi are not indigenous to Zimbabwe. These are migrants from Zambia who settled in Zimbabwe between 1953 and 1963, when Zambia, Malawi and Zimbabwe were one country. The indigenous languages of Zimbabwe are Shona and Tonga, though you can now through in Ndebele as well
@@user-bk6gx7sg3j You are wrong mate, Lozi are the real true owners of Mapungwe and great Zimbabwe them and the kalanga . Some migrants from Uganda and great lakes now call themselves Rozvi.
This was so beautiful to watch. I had once heard that there are Lozi speaking people in Zimbabwe but I couldn't believe it. This has been such a big eye opener for me. And now I'm definitely even more homesick.
Glad you enjoyed it
There are even Luvales and Tongas in Zimbabwe. Just on CZcams and you will be amazed.
Im proud of you bro godonga I hope all Zimbabweans must know who they are
Knowing our history is very important. Most of East, Central and Southern Africa is inhabited by the “Bantu” speaking people. There are also Bantus in North Africa and West Africa although in small numbers.Bantu basically means people. Our origins are traced from Benue -Cross River in Nigeria West Africa and we migrated and settled in different parts of Africa. Bantus are a collective of people who shared the same languages hence you still find similarities in these languages today, i.e between the so called Bantu languages across Africa. Zulus, Swati’s, Ndebele and Xhosas are also Bantu. They are referred as Nguni languages because of the cliques in their languages which was as a result of intermarriages with the Khoi San.
Young man, I salute you! This is the way we should revive Zimbabwe lamasiko ethu 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Thank you so much for watching the video and supporting our work🙏
I'm a lozi from zambia. On one thing saying "am hungry" in lozi it can also be said as "Ni lapile" . when you say "Nishwile tala " you are more like saying "I'm dying of hunger" but still acceptable..
Thanks for sharing this
Lozi is a mixture of Tswana Kalanga and Nambya interesting l love ubuntu in African villages thank you so much for sharing Prince....The food looks delicious l miss kumusha..🌍💞🔥👍🇿🇼💪✊👊💯🙏
Thanks for watching Shamiso🙏
Listening to Mr Mathe speaking i just thought to myself that Africa is one,there are many similarities in languages,from this video and many previous ones..siyabonga Mahlangu for the great work u r doing le team yonke nje..keep up the good work!
Thank you sister. Yes we are one.
Miss Mathe here I am a proud Lozi
BoPhenius nimwanamina luli
Bondate kimuLozi
Amai muShona
Ndikhulele koBulawayo
In a strick Lozi household
Nihupuzi sishungwa, buhobe nitapi
Luitumezi nikuli hupuza kasizo saluna tate
Good work my brother
The original Lozi didn't have Sesotho sounds, it came with Kololos(Bafokeng).
Umsebenzi wakho muhle
Siyabonga..it was great to learn such information, my great grandmother ngumlozi owayendela emaNdebeleni.
Lathi siyabonga Sisasenkosi🙏
Good content 👌 👏 learned the history of Lozi..I am a lozi in 🇳🇦
Wow🙏. Thank you for watching.
Mucwani kezeli ? Batili ki hande kuutwa pupo yaluna ha baityolaula
Nina ni mu Lozi from Caprivi
Great work, love what you do. Did not realise that the Lozi language was still being spoken. History has robbed us of so much
Manufactured ZANU history has robbed us 😒
Zanu PF Agenda has robbed everyone of their History . . . . Trying to Shonalise The Entire Country, There’s Over 30 languages spoken in Zimbabwe.
The way balozi great by clapping hands is similar to the Zulus and kalanga. Also their culture is a mixture of the original balozi ancestors( batswana and Basotho)
🤔
Maozi kapa Barotse show respect by clapping and kneeling down before elders.
I think this is one of your best interviews/documentaries. I really loved the rich history that this gentleman gave us of the Lozi people. They grow their own cassava too. Thank you
Really enjoyed watching this documentary, I’m Nambya myself born in Hwange.. 🙌🏾🙌🏾 thank you very much, video quality is excellent we need more of this 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾…
And oohh i was in the same class as your sister @ Townsend 🙃
Wow, thank you
Am a proud lozi all the way from barotse land Zambia a land of the most intelligent people. God bless all the lozi people
The beauty of language in display. Almost all languages in the SADC region overlap and share many a similar word! Wonder documentary
We are one.
Waking up to a new video, great job gent. I'm so excited to discuss this with my Lozi and Sotho friends.
Bayede, bana Barotse ! 🌹
Thokoza Nokuthula 🙏
I m Tswana speaking South African. I could understand all words, perfectly (SENTLE).
We need to expand it to our, it unifies. Ke tlhaloganya puo e jaanong.
Thank you for watching.
Our country is so diverse wow, i never knew these ppl even existed
There's no language in Southern Africa thats not spoken in Zimbabwe . . . . .
I had to comment twice because I had to let you guys know that you guys are doing a really good job at mending broken history that resulted from the construction of borders in the region. The evidence is in the comments section. Keep doing what you are doing, it is very much appreciated!
Wow. Thank you Ndlovukazi. This means a lot to the team.
Silozi is a Lingua Franca of the Barotse/Lozis/Malozi in Barotseland.the language is a mixture of Sotho/Swana and Luyana languages.
You are free to come to Barotseland and attend Africa mostly flamboyant (Kuomboka) coming out of water ceremony which is expected by the end of March or early of April 2022.
What Luyana words are in siLozi? I was born in Western Province Zambia; my primary language is siLozi, even though I am not a Tonga... other than a few people in the Lozi Royal family, does anyone even know Luyana?
You are doing great job, we are leaning more in your channel,
Dope video! Lit 🔥!!
Thank you so much for the great work magriza siyabonga ngempela
Love it! Keep it up. Have subscribed!
Wow. Thank you so much. Welcome to MMMC.
Was waiting for this 🇿🇼🇿🇼🇿🇼😍🙌
Thanks Ncube🙏
This is eye opening. Thank you and keep up the good work.
Hie Doreen. Thank you for watching🙏
This is beautiful bro. Thank you. I wanna come back home
I am very happy to know that my lozi relatives are there in wange whites they call it wankie we're a big family indeed I live in Lusaka Zambia
We are ONE.
I didn't even need subtitles for this as a Sesotho and Setswana speaking person. Also Mathe surname can be found in both languages.
Thank you for this episode. Very informative 👏
There is no way one can talk about Malozi without the mention of Sesotho/Tswana and Chief Sebetwane.
Yes.
I'm a Ndebele person but I can speak Sepedi and Tshwana and Xhosa this language is very sweet and romantic.
Thank you for showing us this
Love the content.
Marvelous Lozi culture. Here in barosteland land of Zambia it's just the same .
Beautiful culture.
Omg thank you thank you thank you so much for this video ❤️❤️I enjoyed every part of it. Wish you could make a vid with him again. The language is so interesting that I want to learn it
Thanks for the idea!
A mixture of Sotho, Zulu, Shona. As a South African it was not hard understanding lozi
True
You are doing a great job Mahlangu keep up the good work, usifundisa okunengi ebesingakwazi
Siyabonga kakhulu Nokuthula 🙏
I’ve learnt so much on this channel ❤️
A very good program , but the Lozi people are originally Sotho people from south Africa , who came to the Zambezi with king Sebetwani a classmate of king Moshweshwe of Lesotho . They got mixed with the luyi from Angola . Sebetwani conquered the luyi taking them into his kingdom. But after his death the Luyi took over the kingdom.
Im lozi too and im Mathe thank you for this video i have learned a lot hy
Thank you for watching
From Lesotho here. I here all what he is saying
Thanks for watching.
You never disappoint keep up the great work
Thank you for your support.
Through this episode, you've just helped resolve a perennial and quite personal a question. Thanks for that. (To you Mahlangu and team) Keep up the great and immensely educational work!
So nice of you for the feedback. Thank you so much.
Big up brother well done for showing people that zim is a great place to leave
Beautiful country Moyo.
Thanks for the educational video
Very interesting documentary.
Siyabonga Mahlangu, Nzuza! Bayede, Akwande 🙌🌈🌿🙂
Beautiful. The language is similar to Bemba. We have similar roots.
We are ONE
Sengifundile sibili. This was another informative episode. Buteji, dung and the food. Siyabonga Prince.
Kubonga Thina Stella Makoni.
Great documentaries you are doing right here.
Thank you for watching.
As a Mosotho in South Africa, this is beautiful to watch.
Thank you.
Proud Lozi... This is beautiful . Keep up with the good work.
Thank you so much Loveness Habukali🙏
Wow wow, Mr Mathe speaks khelobedu. Here in Limpopo South Africa, we call it khelozwi
Wow I was given a surname in my dream and was told that esamandulo sakabomama and when I googled it I found that it's from the Lozi clan. I know nothing about them but I feel so connected. Thank you for this at least I got to learn something ngyabonga bhuti I love your content.
Thank you Vuyiswa.
I'm Ndebele from Zim. I feel like I could stay in that village and kind of follow the language. Maybe coz I can follow setswana/ seSotho
Siyabonga Godonga. Phambili ngomsebenzi. Onward ever!
Thank Chef Mhle❤️
The Lozi- Rotse are from South Africa. Specifically the Southern Sotho Sebetswane Sebetoane. Hence their language is like Sotho-Pedi-Tswana
The Lozi's are not from South Africa.
I would absolutely love to try that sour porridge and the beans. It was very eye opening to learn about the different benefits of elephant dung.
Thank you so much for watching. We really appreciate it here on the show.
I love this buddie. That's me I'm Lozi. Good job
I can understand parts of what he is saying. African languages are beautiful. Thanks again for the edumacation 💓👏🏾
Yes Kaya’s Gogo. It shows that we are one.
the beauty of the intro is that Setswana and Silozi is getting along lol
Thank you for watching the documentary.
Love the video❤
Thank you Mandy Bee❤️
Mukoma Prince i just love your program...keep it up
Thank you so much for the support🙏
Ungodly content. This is just beautiful😍
Thank you so much Tindo🙏
Hi brother man, many thanks for the awesome documentary. How does one get hold of Mr Mathe?
Great piece, we eat the same in zambia. keep it up.
Thanks for sharing Monica
Thank you for sharing
Thanks for watching!
Shuuuu new sub here proud lozi
Hie Zambezi Traveller. Welcome to Magriza Made Me Cook.
As a sotho person ,smiling alone watching this😅
Thanks for watching.
Good work brother
Thank you so much 😀
Wow, Lozi sounds alot like Sepedi/tswana with traces of other languages.
Im in S.A watching this, and i can understand the old man. Interesting
❤️❤️remind me of my granny parents may thier soul rest in peace❤❤🙏🏽🙏🏽😭
I loved this. I've always known that my people were found in Zimbabwe, just like they're found in Botswana, Namibia, and Angola. But are they also found in Mozambique? In Barotseland, we'd say Mr. Mate speaks with an accent. Otherwise, he speaks well because even within Barotseland itself, we have different accents - north vs south. It's also important to know that Silozi is predominantly Sesotho - especially Sipedi.
Hie Keith Nalumango. Thank you for watching and the important feedback
I've enjoyed this video! My dad was lozi from Zambia. Interesting indeed.
Glad you enjoyed it
I love your work ❤
Thank you so much❤️❤️
Lozi thank you for sharing this video with the world.
Beautiful culture
What did I watch OMG mind blowing
Thier greeting it's like the Sangomas wen performing rituals 👏. Clapping hands wen talking to ancestors, showing respect 🙏. We also do that as Batswana ka Mpho ya Badimo🇿🇦
Thanks for watching Gugu
Mrs Mathe is a very good Chef, the dish variety is proper culinary. That Tapi fish looks yummy. Isitshwala laso looks so delicious. The baobab fruit makes nice porridge. 2nd cousin tribe traits of Kalanga, Ndebele and parts of Tswana in culture and language. The emigration, immigration and intermarriages created new cultures in different parts of the country. Very interesting.
Thank you so much for the feedback.