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APS - The History of Zaire by Tshibumba Kanda Matulu - Third Sessio... file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/USER/Mes%20documents/... 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". [back to main text] 2 See Lenselear (1983: 459): sambaa, "disperser, s'étendre sur". [back to main text] 3 Professor Victor Bol, then a colleague at the university in Lubumbashi, for whom Tshibumba also did many paintings. [back to main text] 4 Luba munyanga (mi) "rammelaar; espèce de crécelle (petite calebasse contenant des noyaux..." (Van Avermaet and Mbuya 1954: 440). [back to main text] 5 Possibly (with a gesture) comme ça. [back to main text] 6 Probably kufwata=kufwatula. Or: "following" the model taken for painting the plane. [back to main text] 7 Lenselaer (1983: p 412), under -peta....Kgw. "pete" = Sw. utepe, "galon indiquant un grade" [stripes indicating a grade]. [back to main text] 8 So here is another 'short cut' picture -- a condensed evocation of a series of events. [back to main text] 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. [back to main text] 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. [back to main text] 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. [back to main text] 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. [back to main text] 5 T. had difficulties with the term in French (mukuba is the Swahili word) and now corrects himself. [back to main text] 6 The subject here is not clear, it could also be the child. [back to main text] 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. [back to main text] 8 This is a tentative transcription to be corrected by a speaker of the language. [back to main text] 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. [back to main text] 10 "They" refers to the other Indian UN soldiers, see below. 52 sur 55 05.02.2006 0:38
APS - The History of Zaire by Tshibumba Kanda Matulu - Third Sessio... file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/USER/Mes%20documents/... [back to main text] 11 This is the "stronger" translation, taking the tu in the verb unatufanya as an object marker. But (see above) it could also be the adverb tu, "only, just", inserted in the verb. [back to main text] 12 T. is still searching for the right term. [back to main text] 13 The recording is not clear; it is also possible that T. wanted to say that they quickly rounded up to greet Sendwe. [back to main text] 14 T. does not complete the sentence. The following passage is freely translated. [back to main text] 15 I am unable to make sense of the rest of the sentence. In this transcription the verb -sumbulia, "have a conversation", occurs twice but there is not enough syntactic information to tell who converses with whom (T. with this monkeys; other people with T.?). [back to main text] 16 There was a confusion between jembe, "hoe", and shoka, "axe" or "adze". Both the hoe and the (ceremonial) adze or hatchet have the blade fixed at right angles to the shaft. [back to main text] 17 I made a mistake in Swahili, using yabo, "their's", instead of yake, "his", but T. understood what I meant. [back to main text] 18 One needs the picture to understand this. The left frame cuts the "inno" off "cent." T. fills the gap but does not further explain the meaning (a name? a slogan?). [back to main text] 19 T. at this point uses the general term mayi, "water". So, to be exact, one should perhaps say "a body of water." But in the following he speaks of a river. [back to main text] 20 T. had used the French "lion", now he gives the Swahili term. [back to main text] 21 My guess at the enigmatic phrase kwanza kwake. [back to main text] 22 Totally botched sentence in the original. It should have been: baliingisha makaka ndani? did they put a monkey inside? But the whole exchange is based on a misunderstanding on 53 sur 55 05.02.2006 0:38
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