#Patience Kabuku

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Patience Kabuku aka DJ Petty Young & Monica Sianbunkululu DJ Mo: presenters at Zongwe FM

“Mukuwa in muntu siya country”

https://radiocontinentaldrift.wordpress.com/2018/01/07/women-on-air-at-zongwe-fm/

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Patience Kabuku

I’m assistant secretary at Zongwe FM...

A radio-exchange with the world...

We are sitting together with Patience Kabuku in the shade of one of the doorways to a classroom at Sinazonwe Primary School. The door to Zongwe FM studio is just across the yard from us. It’s Saturday afternoon; you’ll hear the singing from church congregations somewhere nearby. A match at the football pitch is due; occasionally, a motorcycle-taxi crosses the school grounds and interrupts our conversation for a moment. 

Patience is one of the youth volunteers at Zongwe FM community radio. After completing her secondary schooling in 2014, she started joining the activities at Zongwe, she tells us. She’d like to go to college and study health care; but for the time being and lacking funds, she believes, that she can also serve her community as a radio-announcer. Currently Patience holds the job of an assistant secretary at Zongwe FM. She loves her work at the radio station and describes to us in detail the daily routine at the studio, the opportunities she sees, and the short-comings. We also talk about her ideas for programmes she’d like to bring on air; health and inspiring the youths are on her mind. 

Patience mother-tongue is Lozy; she moved to Sinazongwe with her sisters and parents from Zambia’s Eastern Province. She’s comfortable chatting with me in English; but I also encourage her to speak some summery of our conversation in ChiTonga – to open our recorded conversation to ChiTonga speakers on both, the Zambian and the Zimbabwean sides of Lake Kariba.

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Zongwe FM is a community radio station in Sinazongwe, Southern Province of Zambia.

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Here is the Radio-Bridge Compilation: from the shores of the Zambezi, Zambia and Zimbabwe, out in to the world…; via the ears of Radio-Bridge-Makers from 17 different countries to your ears and, back again to the Zambezi: The Compilation is out to raise funds for radio-makers in Zambia and Zimbabwe.

Please join us passing the fire !https://radiocontinentaldrift.bandcamp.com/…/a-radio-bridge…

with: Bina Annette, Budima musicians, Canary Burton, Cesko and Milla, Chiza N Mwinde, Claudia Wegener/ radio continental drift, Crystal Kwe Favel, Demetrio Cecchitelli, disquetteïs, Dixie Treichel, Donor Ncube, Duo IJ / Inge van den Kroonenberg and Jürgen De Blonde , Erika Preisel / Freies Radio Salzkammergut, Eunice Mwinde and her grandmother, Feralmind, Kat Nicanbheatha, Georg Ritter, Godsglory Nk Jibril-ellams, Ifrah Mansour, Ilpo Jauhiainen, John Barber, Kariyangwe Women’s Forum, Konrad Behr, Labecca Munkuli, Lucia Munenge, Lydia Banda Ndeti, Lydia Lydia Lness Akwabi aka L-NESS, Macdonald Chiemezie Nwokeji / FSK, Margaret Munkuli and her mother, Monica Kindness Siabunkululu / DJ Mo, Mweezya and Mweeka Women Clubs, Niki Matita, Simatelele Women’s Forum, Thomas R. Miller aka Comrade Squelch, Tusumpuke Saving Group and Nsenga Women’s Club, Patience Kabuku/ Jessy P Maxwell aka DJ PettyYoung, prOphesy sun, Tuligwasye Women, Valerie Vivancos, Valerio Orlandini, Zoe Irvine, Zubo Trust and Zongwe FM Kennedy Kein Kambole

PRODUCTION: radio continental drift COVER ART: Trunkstore arts Terence Humphrey

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  Radio-Bridge Compilation: from the shores of the Zambezi, Zambia and Zimbabwe Here is the Radio-Bridge Compilation: from the shores of the Zambezi, Zambia and Zimbabwe, out in to the world...; via the ears of Radio-Bridge-Makers from 17 different countries to your ears and, back again to the Zambezi: The Compilation is out to raise funds for radio-makers in Zambia and Zimbabwe.

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Hear and Support: The Radio-Bridge Compilation

In team with radio-makers at Zongwe FM and the women of Zubo Trust, we are proudly presenting a compilation of radio remixes produced by international artists and radio-makers in response to audio/radio actions both sides of the Zambezi.

A Radio-Bridge created of 23 music tracks, by more than 50 contributors from 17 countries awaits you. Join us and enjoy listening!

The Compilation is a fundraiser for new project activities this year:

All proceeds from the compilation’s online sales will benefit radio-makers in training both side of the Zambezi, in Sinazongwe Zambia and Binga Zimbabwe. 

Twalumba loko! twalumba maningi !

Thank you for your radiant solidarity !

A Radio-Bridge across the Zambezi by radio continental drift

with: Bina Annette, Budima musicians, Canary Burton, Cesko and Milla, Chiza Mwinde, Claudia Wegener/ radio continental drift, Crystal DJ Kwe Favel, Demetrio Cecchitelli, disquetteïs, Dixie Treichel, Donor Ncube, Duo IJ / Inge van den Kroonenberg and Jürgen De Blonde , Erika Preisel / FRS, Eunice Mwinde and her grandmother, Feralmind, Georg Ritter, Godsglory JibrilEllams, Ifrah Mansour, Ilpo, John Barber, Kariyangwe Women’s Forum, Konrad Behr, Labecca Munkuli, Lucia Munenge, Lydia Banda Ndeti, Lydia Akwabi MC aka L-NESS, Macdonald Chiemezie Nwokeji / FRS, Margaret Munkuli and her mother, Monica Sianbunkululu/ DJ Mo, Mweezya and Mweeka Women Clubs, Niki Matita, Simatelele Women’s Forum, Tom Miller aka Comrade Squelch, Tusumpuke Saving Group and Nsenga Women’s Club, Patience Kabuku/ DJ Petty Young, prOphesy sun, Tuligwasye Women, Valerie Vivancos, Valerio Orlandini, Zoe Irvine, Zubo Trust and Zongwe FM;    PRODUCTION: radio continental drift

COVER ART: Trunkstore arts

Some background:

The BaTonga, the people of the Great River lost their ancestry when the Zambezi Valley was flooded to construct Kariba dam and lake in a colonial, World-Bank financed project at the end of the 1950. The Tonga people had to undergo the traumatic experience of forceful removal and resettlement. While the benefits of Kariba bypass most of the rural communities till today.

After 60 years of struggle, the Valley Tonga people have a story to tell about cultural survival, creative resilience and determination for self-help and self-organisation; and this is what you can hear resonate across he Radio-Bridge Compilation and the original recordings which featured in the call-out playlist.

You are most welcome to get in touch with us.

For more information you may also consult the websites of our partners:

Zubo Trust;  Freies Radio Salzkammergut;  Radio Fro;  Tonga Online

Download : Spendenaufruf (deutsch)

Download: free audio fundraiser

You may also support our broadcast training this year via:

Baobab e.V.; Netzwerk für kulturelle Vielfalt und Nord-Süd Entwicklung; Stichwort: „Sambesi Radio“; IBAN: DE67 4306 0967 4103 8566 00; BIC: GENODEM1GLS; GLS Bank; www.baobab-ev.org

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Monica Sianbunkululu

“The radio really helped me...”

“Radio programmes for the community...”

“At the Lwindii ceremony for the first time…”

At the time I was staying with Zongwe FM, in August 2016, I found two young ladies working there in a group of five youths presenters. Following the recording with Patience Kabuku, here, we are sitting with Monica Kindness Sianbunkululu in the yard of Sinazongwe Primary listening to her story of how, as a lady, she found her way as a radio-maker with Zongwe FM. The children of the caretaker are playing in the yard; occasionally they try to attract our attention; we pause and listen to the girl’s singing across the yard.

Monica talks of her challenges at home for working every day at the station without bringing some money back to the family. But Monica loves her work for the community through radio and sees other benefits. She appreciates the technical knowledge she gains through her radio work and the skills of interacting in communication with very different people. The radio helped her, she says, even to find a payed job as a data collector at the road construction company. These days, she’s trading fish for her upkeep. In July, Monica witnessed Lwindii ceremony for the first time. Zongwe FM is doing live broadcasts from the festival. She describes for us what she has seen and heard at Lwindii.

In track 3, Monica summarizes her story in the local language, ChiTonga; I encourage her to do so to open-up our conversation to ChiTonga speakers on both sides of Lake Kariba. Monica explains to us at once that, even though, she’s Tonga, she grew up with her grandmother in the Bemba language; so ChiTonga is her second language.

Zongwe FM is a community radio station in Sinazongwe, Southern Province of Zambia.

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Sinazongwe Women Clubs

Following a meeting and interview recording with Mary Mwakoi and Victoria Citalu at the Department of Community Development, we visited four of the Women’s clubs under Community Development, got to know their project work and made many recordings of their presentations.

The interview recording with Mary and Victoria can be found here

We visited Mweezya and Mweka Women’s Clubs, Nsenka Women’s Club and Tusumpuke Saving Group. Our team: Mary Mwakoi (Community Development Sinazongwe); Monica Siabunkululu and Patience Kabuku (Zongwe FM); Claudia Wegener (radio continental drift/ Zubo Trust).

The Women form Mweezya and Mweka Women’s Clubs are coming like in a procession, dancing and singing, carrying their goods and produce in baskets and boxes on their heads…. they put Chitenges on the ground and create a display for us… then the presentations of their projects begin...

A playlist of sample recordings with the Women’s Clubs

Cleopatra of Mweezya Women’s Club gives us an impressively detailed presentation about the women’s production of organic pesticides… this will be one of the recordings , which we later take on-air at Zongwe FM in a show with DJ Mo…

In the Lwiindi grounds meeting two local women groups, the Tusumpuke Saving group and the Nsenka Women’s Club. Mary Mwakoi introduced us to the women; Monica and Patience from Zongwe FM are making recordings for our upcoming live shows. The women present their projects and products; Claudia has brought greetings from the Zubo women across Lake Kariba, and a clash bag woven of Ilala Palm by the Binga women to  introduce some of Zubo’s projects… here, one of the women from Nsenka responds with the wish that Zubo’s women should come for a visit across the Zambezi and teach them how to weave such bags…

...the Tusumpuke Savings group sing a song for us which is something like their sonic signature… in the song, they are calling out for women not to behave like a lizard - that is, sitting motionless and waiting for food passing by… that is to say, use your hands women, and produce something you can trade with and provide for yourselves and your families...

At ZongweFM station, we followed up with two broadcasts. On 22nd August, Claudia and Patience introduced recordings from the Women’s Forum’s of Zubo Trust in Binga Zimbabwe; and generally introduced our subject and interest of women getting together in groups and working as teams. On 29 August, Monica and Patience welcomed representative of the Women Clubs and Mary Mwakoi in studio and engaging in conversation about their projects in the Clubs. The Women of Zubo Trust across the lake were also present – in recordings we played in the broadcast.

Playlist of clips from live shows at Zongwe FM

Zongwe FM is a community radio station in Sinazongwe, Southern Province of Zambia.

Zubo Trust is a women’s organisation in Binga Zimbabwe bringing women together for self-empowerment.