Sakhile Dube explains Zulu culture: Ancestors
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In this video, Sakhile Dube from St Lucia in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, shares a few stories about the Zulu culture in English (his second language). In particular, he shares how the Zulu people view and revere their ancestors. His storytelling is amazing and is something very unique to African culture as a whole.
Also, he has an epic voice :)
*Note - this video has been put together with excerpts from a presentation he did for a live audience on one of his walks, which is why you will see home addressing people off camera.
Check out our other videos with Sakhile here:
How to pronounce Zulu clicks with Sakhile Dube: • Incredible Zulu click ...
iSimangaliso Wetland Park: Southern Ecosystems with Sakhile Dube: • iSimangaliso Wetland P...
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Man if I had his voice, I'd never shut up
Hahhhaaa
Hahaha me too
AhahahahahahaHahhaHhha. That's so funny
I would talk to myself all day too
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The golden voice of South Africa 😍
Smooth as butter
Smoker Ganja Voice ];-D, the same from Etiopia=Jamajca.
I could listen to this man all day
@@VladIDrago cmon don't be saying stuff like "etiopia = jamaica" they ain't the same, unless you meant the voice of a ganja smoker then that makes sense.
True
Omg he could read me a tax manual and I'd listen intensely
Same to you
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Seriously. I want him to read me to sleep for the rest of my life. I wonder if he's ever recorded an audio book.
I'd let him run up in my guts.
I want sure if it was appropriate to say that I could listen to his voice for hours...que up Muni Long fo me please.
"IF I die" this guy has confidence.
Well, he's been alive all his life and probably hasn't died yet, so far he's batting a thousand
That outstanding display of logic just blew my mind to smithereens
@@youngmetro3times849 Exactly. He said “IF I die” not “WHEN I die”.
@#Let the Sunnah go forth and don’t stop it! I refuse
@#Let the Sunnah go forth and don’t stop it! just watch me, god is going to call me into the light and im going to say, "no god, I still have things to do", and god will say: "allright my son, you were always my favorite"
This man right here gives Morgan freeman a run for his money with that voice
James Earl Jones aka King Jaffe Joffer...look it up
Please record an audiobook! I would totally keep listening to that.
Or try to get into voice acting. I can totally imagine a 3 hour documentation about african wildlife (of course also other topics, but the african wildlife obviously popped into my mind first) narrated by your euphonius deep voice.
Seriously, in terms of your voice you are clearly blessed by god.
I *loathe* audiobooks and I'd buy the whole series and play them non-stop!
@@I_report_scammers_spammers weird....
Yes, he should narrate "The Lion King".
@@tA_aT287what’s weird ese Olhe
This man could put Morgan Freeman out of business. His voice is unbelievable, kind of like smooth, dark chocolate. I could listen to him for hours. I love the story of how they collect the spirit of a loved one if they don’t die at home. That makes so much sense as he explained his culture.
He beats James Earl Jones too 😂
He is far better than Morgan freeman
It makes complete sense
bro said dark chocolate 💀
This guy could put Barry White out of business
I’m so glad to hear that Sakhile Dube will be starting his own youtube channel. He is the embodiment of wisdom! He clearly knows his subject intimately. His explanation and delivery are utterly on point and that solid gold voice! If the Earth itself had vocal chords, this is the voice it would speak with! 🌍🥰
this is only the second vid i've seen but i searched his name because his voice is amazing - if he makes a channel i'm so there
Will they announce his new channel on this one? I don't want to miss out.
@@syrenasketches6902 it's linked in the video description :)
He's fascinating here. I love hearing about this stuff from the people themselves, not the bookworm academics who've studied 'world religions'.
What is his TH-cam
What a voice. You don’t hear a voice like that, you feel it in the ground.
I am Maori, from New Zealand. I really like the way you treat your family members who have passed on :)
I play you a lot in Civilization 6. Me and Maori people conquer the world hoho
@@gabrielcortes8686 thats cute 🐭
I want this man to narrate my life.
Nah...your life isn't interesting enough
@@mankind8807 Said by a man who doesn't have any idea what my life had been. 😂
@@jezreellucas8055 Not worth narrating that's for sure, I mean who the heck do you think you are? The ego...
@@mankind8807 Like, who the f*ck even take an opinion/comment so personally? 😂 You really are so simple-minded aren't you? There's nothing you can do 😂 I say whatever the f*ck I want.
@@mankind8807 You're very cringy.
The King is back!
He sure is! He's starting a new channel (or at least, he's going to be posting more on his channel) so be sure to check him out there too! (details in the description)
The Zulu language is art, much love from Morocco 🇲🇦
Much love Maghibi
I think so too.
he is so... beautiful... i am overwhelmed by how lovely his smile and his voice is
You are an amazing speaker, a good teacher, and this is super interesting! Thank you for the upload :)
No worries - so glad you like it!
@@Strayalongtheway bro. With a voice like this, I can see you make it to the TOP in years to come.
When this man speaks and smiles it's impossible for me not to smile too.
Yes me too brother
This guy needs a television show. 💕
He'd absolutely be a worthy successor to Sir David Attenborough for narrating all things nature.
@@jadefalcon001agreed
@@jadefalcon001Attenborough isn't just a narrator. He is also a Biologists.
He has a carrier in voice-overs for films and audio books. So much depth and richness in his sound.
Career, not carrier.
@@OrdinaryLatvian English isn't my first language but hey, if you want to act the part of a grammar teacher then knock yourself out.
@@Rock-Steady Neither is it mine, really. But we can all help each other out.
Currently as I’m watching this, my Nan is actively dying. I don’t know how I stumbled upon this man and video, but Im so very grateful to have done so. Such reverence for life and death, from the golden voice. I’d listen to this man share history and culture for the rest of this life, and the next one.
Look he's nervous because he went viral. I'm glad you got some attention for being such a cool tour guide.
He should have his own channel reading bedtime stories to adults. His voice is so deep he can put anyone to sleep.
I can feel this dudes voice in MY chest lol.
I'm a linguist, and I'm really impressed with his voice. It's so smooth, deep, and manly.
This video simply MUST be put into a time capsule for future generations. Sakhile Dube’s voice simply MUST be heard forever. Wow. The Zulu tradition of carrying the spirit home brought tears to my eyes, what a lovely way to process and aid the passing of a loved one❤
Yea, it sounds like a very good way to get some closure
Sakhile should definitely think about participating in a linguistic video (such as LangFocus or NativLang) about the Zulu click languages, maybe as a guest. It would be wonderful for both sides - those channels would finally have actual natives pronouncing those difficult sounds and Sakhile would be able to spread even further the culture of the Zulu :)
from now on watching Michael Caine in Zulu film im rooting for the zulu
He did actually do a short video on the click languages.
I could listen to him all day long. Such a good speaker
This guy is unreal. His voice. His explanation. Epic man! 🤝💪
I love brief glimpses into cultures like this. They're not an overwhelming amount of information but are extremely informative! Great for my niece to learn about the many people that inhabit our world.
Thanks for teaching us about your culture, not enough people in the west learn about what African cultures really are.
This tradition of collecting and carrying the spirit of a loved one who has passed away outside of the family home is truly touching and beautiful. I love the care and tenderness in how they continue to talk to them on the way home and pray to them over the years.
When he spoke about bringing the family member’s spirit home, I started crying and crying. Because it meant no matter where you died, whether you were alone - someone would be there to bring you home.
And I felt such a sense of loss and grief, because I have no family I am close to, and we have no shared home. And I cry, because my spirit feels lost, loitering, wandering. And yet I am still living.
I hope one day I have a family, and there is someone to bring me home.
Thank you for this video.
From today you have a brother. ME!! 🤜🤛
His voice is so amazing and this ceremony is so beautiful 🥰💯
I kind of took my Zulu traditions/rituals for granted growing up, but as an expat for a couple of years now (and having grown up), I'm so deeply fascinated by them. Thank you for this video!
His confidence, voice; and smile are amazing. Could listen to him all the time.
His voice is deeper than the Mariana Trench! 🤪
I could listen to this man talk for hours on end! And his way of telling a story is beautiful. 💕💕
The way he tells a important part of his culture, it just feels right. Thank you for this !
Being of Chinese, I don't look at all African, but hearing of your customs, I know that we are kin. We too call out to the spirits of those who have died away from home in order to lead them back. We venerate our ancestors much as you do.
All people do this. We are more connected than we are different.
@@agricolaregs yes many people do this though I believe Christians don't and most pagans don't either. I wasn't raised with any religion but I remember as a small kid trying to contact my grandmother who had passed away,, I suppose it's something natural
@@evaschipper8494 In our culture in Estonia we have a day called Soul day. Its similar to what Catholics have but with a different purpose. We dont pray for people who have passed and are in purgatory. We light candles in our houses at night and dont use lights. I think the point of this was to guide our ancestors back home, the candle light is like a beacon in order for them to find their way back to us.
@@evaschipper8494 most paganism is built around ancestor worship as well as the many gods. In all of Europe your ancestry is and was extremely important
The ancestors of the Chinese were black Africans, who left Africa more than 50kn years ago. So, it is no surprise that the Chinese continues to practice some aspect of their African culture.
Thats actually beautiful, the part with the branch. Such respect and love for your fallen relatives.
AmaNguni amahle (Zulu,Xhosa,Swati, Ndebele)❤👌👌👌👌
I would love to hear more about the South African spiritual and religious beliefs. This was very cool, my dude did an amazing job explaining everything.
Powerful voice. And his explanation of what happens when we die is actually more accurate than people think. Spirit is inside all of us. It's that little, or big voice that speaks to us and trys to guide us through moments that could be pivotal in this life. If we ignore it, bad things can happen. We are literally energy beings having a human experience. This isn't so much a belief, as a fact.
This is such a nice concept, and a lovely way to remember the ancestors and those who have passed.
Now I'd love to see this sort of practice appear in a story. Maybe a private detective helping families locate and retrieve the spirits of their family members. Or someone who travels to another country when they learn their family member died, and all the interruptions and hiccups on the way. I think it'd be neat
A voice that feels simultaneously like a warm hug and a reverence-inspiring devine experience
I miss my great grandmother. I knew her up until I was a certain age, and I wish her a nice life in the beyond, even though at the time I was young. She was such a wonderful woman who treated me, my sister, my father, and my grandmother right. It feels like a whole era of my life where she was around. Bless and rest in peace.
Sakile and Sam Elliot having a conversation would be golden
Include James Earl Jones and Morgan Freeman
He should record an audio book with African stories and beliefs. I would pay for it.
I love your energy! This makes me want to travel to Africa.
i can listen to this brothers voice all day.. madluv Yo!
I'm sayin! He should do some voice acting or record an audiobook. I'd buy it not even knowing what it's about!
Came here to hear how the clicks were done, stayed for the culture and glad I did.
You got a great way of speaking, really rich voice. Good luck on whatever your journey is in life. :)
Same as me. 😊
No mister Sakhile, I am the one to say Thank You. You are a beautiful man. Your voice, your face, the way you talk, everything make me see in you a good person. Thank You for your videos.
Please keep Mr. Dube clips coming. Have him teach us everything he has on his mind.
That voice and smile are wonderful! Thank you, thank you for sharing your culture and language with the world!!
It's this voice that could get me to do just about anything. I'm thankful I've never met him. I'd be no good. He is smart, he looks good, he tall dark and handsome. OMG and his hands are HUGE. I'm melted.
I cosign this, I am in love with his voice! He is handsome indeed!
@@Amagem81 ...and his hands are HUGE 😃
Thirst is strong here
@@DG-EditsMedia 😂🤣you funny...i get it. But it's more like HUNGER. Here there is to much moisture to ever become thirsty. We got waterfalls, trickling brooks and sweet flowing streams ova here. Neva thirsty. Could use some meat to go with tha whine though. 😉😏
I think my imagination went to another place on the part "to do just about anything" 😅😅
I could listen to this guy all day. He's a natural communicator.
What a beautiful way to relate life and death. I would love to go to my ancestors and speak to them for guidance ❤
Great information. Now I know why I always loved south Africa.
Listening to Sakhile is always a pure joy, but man, what an invaluable insight !
Sakhile is so handsome. That smile.. and that voice. Wow. And his english is so charming. I love his accent. He's seems to be such a calm yet very quick to think. I like this guy!!
He's a great teacher and story teller
What a beautiful voice! I learned so much. I hope you will keep showing us more of this fascinating land and peoples.
Faith so beautifully expressed. I met someone from Swaziland. I will never forget her beautiful smile and joyous spirit.
Not faith,but truthful, African culture is mathematical, geometric.its part of the reason African ancestors aligned the pyramids to the stars. We, African people worldwide our identity is embedded in precision. gij,j=0
Sakhile has the most beautiful speaking voice I've ever heard, hands-down.
This man has a beautiful voice. I'd listen to him speak all day.
This entire channel is absolutely fascinating. I can watch for hours. And Sakhile Dube's voice is amazing.
Actual African history, thank you very much Sakhile!
It's not history, it's current.
He was talking about Zulu spirituality
This is one of the most beautiful videos I have ever watched
That was fascinating. Saw your earlier video with Sakhile so immediately clicked on this one. Thanks also for the link to his channel.
As a black American my knowledge of my heritage is limited (my DNA is listed as Nigerian) but this insight makes me feel just a little closer to Mother Africa
Not to be rude or anything but since you have Nigerian ancestry you are culturally very far away from South Africa. It's like someone with Spanish ancestry learning about Finland, same continent yes but totally unrelated to your respective ancestry.
@Gavin Walcott why are you getting so pressed?
@Gavin Walcott I was not in any way rude nor was I attacking anyone. I was just stating that it seems weird. The comment just makes it sound like Africa is one big country yk, hence my Spanish-Finnish comparison.
The first person to start attacking was you, there was no need to become aggressive in any way. If you didn't agree with what I said, do so in a respectful manner. Good day
@Gavin Walcott funny thing is, I'm actually from Cape Town and already I almost have no linguistic or racial similarities to those living in the north of South Africa so imagine speaking about a whole ass continent that is culturally uniform. Yes there are regional similarities, it is bound to be by logic but otherwise the similarity ends there.
If a Zulu person ever met a Yoruba person they'd immediately recognize that they are different from each other, only sharing skin colour and nothing else. I just hate that people assume Africa is one big village with starving black children when it clearly isn't. Listen man, I have met friends from around Africa like Angola, DRC, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Somalia and all of them did not experience this African unity you talk about. I'm sure you know that South Africa is a pretty xenophobic place, why do think it is so? That's because native blacks recognize the difference in other black people from Africa and somehow get offended at the fact they are living in a different country, "their" country.
Pan Africanism, how ever good its intentions, is nothing but a farce. When you have the most genetically diverse continent in the world, uniformity is the last thing you can think about.
@Gavin Walcott You are wrong, Africa has over 3000 distinct spoken languages and 2000 distinct ethnicities, all these people are not the same, they have differing cultures, customs, beliefs, and physical features. You don't know what you are talking about.
This is gold. Keep talking awesome man!!
This guy makes me happy, for no reason at all...... Keep him coming back forever!
again, so educational! thank you! your storytelling makes me want to learn more about south africa!
Fantastic explanation. Thank you for sharing! Beautiful philosophy. ❤️
Zulu was my favorite civilization in Sid Meiers's civ1 back in the day!:)
Sakhile I thank you for sharing this wisdom of the ancestors passage home and our lost knowledge of how to keep them alive within. Blessing Be unto Us all
This is so interesting! And i like the kindness in the words and in the voice. Thank you for teaching us.
this guy should be playing a role in some star wars as some council dude
this mans voice slays
This guy could literally read the dictionary from start to finish, and I would genuinely still listen to every word that he says.
Thank you for sharing Sakhile. Your culture presentations are very interesting. Good luck getting some momentum, I'll be around to watch from Baltimore buddy!
This man has the greatest voice, matched only by the man himself, James Earl Jones
I follow you from Uganda and I think your culture is similar to us Baganda from Buganda kingdom
I'm so glad I found these videos... these go a long way towards patching my shredded faith in humanity. And, of course, WHAT A VOICE 👌👌👌
Wow. That guy has a powerful presence.
LOVE the exuberant visual relay. Really helps the informations stick.
Subscribed.
He could whisper in my ear that he yeeted my family out of existence and I would be ok with it.
Fr🤣🤣🤣
Y'all want Morgan Freeman to read your life stories.
I want this man.
Voice still Beautiful ❤️.... so happy to see he’s still making informative videos. Thank you 💯🙌🏾
Channels like this mean so much to the diaspora, thanks for sharing your videos
That was truly wonderful to hear, and makes absolute perfect sense. Thank you for sharing that with us. 😁
This guy is brilliant indeed. I could sit and listen to his stories all day.
I love that
What a beautiful voice. I could listen to him for hours. I wonder if he sings.
I need to see more of this absolutely amazing human being. I could watch and listen to him for hours. I feel like he is talking directly to me. I never felt that before.
Beautiful. This actually gave me great comfort 🥹 thank you for sharing 🙏🏾
Glad I watched this video. I spent time around Zulu people for 2 years in KZN as a missionary I wish I new this back then 26 years ago. I respect this culture of fetching the spirit. I had an outer body experience while in high care and during the time I was out my body I could not figure out how to get home and I did not know I was having an outer body experience until I returned to my room and my body so if I had died I would have felt helpless because nobody was talking back to me when I had the outer body experience so its comforting to know this. I want to show this respect to the dead or dying knowing the spirit lives on.
Fantastic explanation! Thank you for teaching us.
I absolutely feel this belief. Thank you for sharing - your content is food to my soul.
That was so cool! More people need to see this!
This is profoundly beautiful. Thanks.❤
I've come back to this a year later and it's even more profound to me. Please making videos of your knowledge and culture.