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F: tuko na mambo mingi ya kuwaza:
na kuangaria:
T: mm/
F: tableaux tunabeba kwetu:
tutabakia na: ukumbusho/
T: bon: nasema ni mitabakia na
mukumbuo kwenu mingi/
F: eyo/
1
ECS ngazi, "ladder, stairs".
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2
See Lenselear (1983: 459): sambaa,
"disperser, s'étendre sur".
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3
Professor Victor Bol, then a colleague at the
university in Lubumbashi, for whom
Tshibumba also did many paintings.
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4
Luba munyanga (mi) "rammelaar; espèce de
crécelle (petite calebasse contenant des
noyaux..." (Van Avermaet and Mbuya 1954:
440).
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5
Possibly (with a gesture) comme ça.
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6
Probably kufwata=kufwatula. Or: "following"
the model taken for painting the plane.
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7
Lenselaer (1983: p 412), under -peta....Kgw.
"pete" = Sw. utepe, "galon indiquant un grade"
[stripes indicating a grade].
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8
So here is another 'short cut' picture -- a
condensed evocation of a series of events.
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F: You have helped us.
T: That's right.
F: We have a lot to think about
and to look at.
T: Mm-hmm.
F: The painting we'll take home,
we'll keep the memory.
T: Fine. I'll stay with you in
memory.
F: Yes.
1 The count is still off by one.
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2 I pronounced the French term as a question
and T. thought that I was asking for a
translation in Swahili. See also above when I
asked about the umbrellas: mamvuli:
parapluies.
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3 Here (and a little earlier) T. uses the
expression kutengeneza, lit. "to arrange, to put
in order". It adds to painting the idea of
composition.
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4 In translation this sounds as if T. was not
quite sure about the official name. The original
show that he corrects himself; he had said
congolais and now realizes that armée
requires congolaise.
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5 T. had difficulties with the term in French
(mukuba is the Swahili word) and now corrects
himself.
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6 The subject here is not clear, it could also be
the child.
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7 Because of much overlap and unfinished
sentences this passage is difficult to follow. T.
understood at the time that I was eager to
record the song.
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8 This is a tentative transcription to be
corrected by a speaker of the language.
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9 It is impossible to sort out the exact
references of the terms secession and
revolution in this exchange. Most likely T. had
in mind the anti-Tshombe faction among the
Luba of Katanga.
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10 "They" refers to the other Indian UN
soldiers, see below.
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