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Kikuyus in Congo? Gorillas in the mist
ali
#1 Posted : Tuesday, February 28, 2012 10:19:06 AM
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The movie was shot in the Congo forests, lake kivu area i believe.
But what puzzles me is the Okuyo speaking blacks in the movie. There's a scene where everythng said is in Gíkúyú language.
Which leaves me wondering why use a language thats so far from the scene?
Why not use like kinyarwanda which is spoken around the kivu? Or kibatoro in Uganda?
Eg 'úyú ní mùrogi (she's a witch.)
'ìra mùtumia úyù aturie ndu' (tell this woman to kneel down)
nií ndî múndú mùgo (i'm a medicine man)
For in him (Jesus) we live and move and have our being-Acts 17:28
FundamentAli
#2 Posted : Tuesday, February 28, 2012 11:25:16 AM
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ali wrote:
The movie was shot in the Congo forests, lake kivu area i believe.
But what puzzles me is the Okuyo speaking blacks in the movie. There's a scene where everythng said is in Gíkúyú language.
Which leaves me wondering why use a language thats so far from the scene?
Why not use like kinyarwanda which is spoken around the kivu? Or kibatoro in Uganda?
Eg 'úyú ní mùrogi (she's a witch.)
'ìra mùtumia úyù aturie ndu' (tell this woman to kneel down)
nií ndî múndú mùgo (i'm a medicine man)


These are third generation. Run away during colonial rule. Own shops and grow maize in eastern DRC and western Uganda
essyk
#3 Posted : Tuesday, February 28, 2012 11:46:55 AM
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heheheheh this is just too funny! in congo forest? If I met a kyuk there I would laugh my heart off. How do they look like now?? gosh
I know hata amazon we have one or two.
"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
kenmac
#4 Posted : Tuesday, February 28, 2012 11:58:09 AM
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they are remnants of bantu migration.
......Ecclesiastes
ali
#5 Posted : Tuesday, February 28, 2012 12:33:06 PM
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Come to think of it, the place is beautiful and if i have relatives there, i wont mind having a plot of forest.
For in him (Jesus) we live and move and have our being-Acts 17:28
Insurgent
#6 Posted : Tuesday, February 28, 2012 12:52:02 PM
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ali wrote:
Come to think of it, the place is beautiful and if i have relatives there, i wont mind having a plot of forest.


Hutus are bantus and speak a language the Kikuyu are able to understand.


"One man gives freely, yet gains even more; another withholds unduly, but comes to poverty. A generous man will prosper; he who refreshes others will himself be refreshed." Rev Canon Karanja.

Njung'e
#7 Posted : Tuesday, February 28, 2012 1:00:40 PM
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essyk wrote:
heheheheh this is just too funny! in congo forest? If I met a kyuk there I would laugh my heart off. How do they look like now?? gosh
I know hata amazon we have one or two.


No need to laugh....You might have read John Kiriamiti's "My life in crime".In the 70s when John was on the run from the law,he travelled to some remote town in Zaire (DRC) and as he begged for food and shelter,he encountered a Kikuyu businessman running a kiosk......and well,sometimes in August of "96,we were window shopping with a friend in Yaounde.We entered a shop and started conversing in Ki-slope.As we turned to leave,the lady at the counter asked,"Kai mukuendaga ati"....we froze
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Njung'e
#8 Posted : Tuesday, February 28, 2012 1:04:11 PM
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@essyk,
You wouldn't mind to know that in Western UG (Mbarara).There is a community of Slopians who settled here in 60s and are serious maize farmers.One of the richest family in this community happens to be from Ting'ang'a and are very close relatives of minister Kimunya.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Kaka M
#9 Posted : Tuesday, February 28, 2012 1:18:21 PM
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Recently in Tz I said hi to guys whom I heard speaking kyuk n was busy telling em I come from Kenya also turned out they are from Burundi but even the times they travel to Kenya they are able to understand some local bantu languages.
essyk
#10 Posted : Tuesday, February 28, 2012 1:29:37 PM
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.One of the richest family in this community happens to be from Ting'ang'a and are very close relatives of minister Kimunya.

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We entered a shop and started conversing in Ki-slope.As we turned to leave,the lady at the counter asked,"Kai mukuendaga ati"....we froze


Laughing out loudly Laughing out loudly Laughing out loudly

I see now.Those in congo are descendants of Kiriamiti! while smbody else sowed wild oats in Uganda looong ago.LOL @ Tinganga!!
from tingaga to mbarara??

That's shocking esp the case of that lady shopkeeper!!



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