The spiritual aspect of Bemba culture: Bemba names

This video discusses the spiritual aspects of Bemba culture. Bemba names are used to demonstrate the spiritual depth of Bemba cultural artefacts.
Often, people associate African traditional cultures with moral depravity. This video likens the rite of Bemba naming (burying of the umbilicus and bringing back a name of an ancestor) to Jewish naming rite for a male child (circumcision and naming) and Christian naming rite (baptism of water and bringing back a name of a saint).

[@kuxee88]

Thank you... I do not know much of My Roots, not because of My Grandfather's doing but out of my own Ignorance. I am really glad this program is very deep

[@umubemba]

Great. You have the opportunity to know more

[@chewechisanga1841]

Cine cine nakalebalika. I have indeed learned the explanation for the reason to follow our African tradition way of worship,in a changing world.

[@umubemba]

Twatotela mukwai kalebalika

[@georgechanda2412]

To God be the glory

[@mwansakemba8568]

Bushe Lesa wesu na Lesa baletele abasungu mwibuku yabo bamobene?
Natotela sana, amenso yaisuka, please continue teaching us our spirituality we wake up from our slumber, alot has been taken away from us, we are lost.

[@umubemba]

Yes and no. Ifikolwe fyesu ifyaumfwile imbilansuma yabu Kristiani pakubala, fyaitile the God of Christianity ati: Mulungu. Nomba mu cisumino ca fikolwe, Lesa alikula ukucila imilungu. Kashi nakalimo balimwenemo cimo muli Mulungu icalengele batile: tafika pali Lesa wesu

[@mwansakemba8568]

@@umubemba
Cine tafikapo, Lesa wafikolwemukulu ucita ifipapwa, twalimulufya pamulandu wakutupatikisha ukusumina Mulungu wabo, lelo ine palwandi ndebwekela kuli Lesa wafikolwe fyandi, ena tayititikisha pamuntu nakalya, tepaya abamukana iyooo.

[@bwalyachilombo1377]

Answer is no. We had the perfect belief system and lacked nothing when religion came they forced it on our ancestors and killed those who refused to obey. They have used their religion to rob us of what is rightfully ours, land and resources

[@kennethndhlovu468]

As a Ngoni am looking forward to this event... Those were very powerful and wise words..... Next time pliz explain about the praises the chitimukulu gets I would really like to learn the bemba is deep

[@umubemba]

Ba Ndhlovu looking forward to Ukusefya pa Ng'wena ceremony? Eish, the skulls if Ngoni warriors are too many in the war trenches right at the arena...

[@kennethndhlovu468]

@@umubemba NGA te tipu tipu nanomba ngamwaba ku munga wefwafwa 🤣😅😅😂

[@mileskasanda9778]

This is a fountain of knowledge...

[@umubemba]

Thank you

[@bwalyachilombo1377]

Ft. Richard Mukuka. I want to know what the bemba spiritual meaning of Richard means.? I discarded the European names I had as it was contaminating my roots.

[@umubemba]

My ishina lya mutoto is: Mukuka. In the Bemba naming system, this is the only permanent and most important name. When I was baptised in the Catholic Church, they gave me the name: Luciano, the name of an Italian saint. The Catholic faith of the time required this. When I was registered as a Zambian, I was registered as: Richard. At that time, it was a subtle requirement for one to have an 'English' name. Even though AbaBemba have no surnames, government of Zambia stationery often expected one to have a first name and surname. Within that confusion, I'd use my first name (Mukuka) as my surname and one of my other names (usually Richard) as my first name. To answer your question, my primary identity is: Mukuka. Now, just as we used adjectives to describe the particular Mukuka we were talking about (Mukuka mwaume, Mukuka mwaice, Mukuka waina, Mukuka wakashika, etc), when need arises to identify the Mukuka we are talking about, I do use the descriptives: Richard (in the context of Zambian identity), Kalebalika (in the case of cultural identity), or in extremely rare instances, Luciano (for Catholic church identity). Beyond that, the auxiliary name Richard has no meaning.

[@maryaanzed]

I would like to know about the Gods of the bemba people specifically the abena mfula and abena nsoka.. if there is a book I get to know more about this please let me know

[@umubemba]

AbaBemba did not have many Gods. The had Lesa (God), then Imilungu or Ingulu (nature spirits), then Imipashi (spirits of ancestors who lived a good life), then Ifiwa or Ifibanda (spirits of ancestors who lived a sinful life). The book "AbaBemba no BuBemba: Understanding the Bemba cultural world" has a chapter on the the spiritual system

[@Mutale621]

Natotela sana Ba Mukuka pakutuletela program iyi to learn about our roots! Mukwai ndelombako ukwishiba MUTALE , MUKUKA, MUSONADA, KABWE Na CHISANGA ofoyipilaola. Natotela

[@maryaanzed]

Hi.. my birth name is lukwesa,can you please talk about it and abena nsoka and abena mfula

[@umubemba]

Lukwesa is, strictly, not an IciBemba name. It should be a Tabwa or from one of the ethnic groups along the Lwapula Valley. As for the clans, we hope to discuss these in future videos. Thank you

[@user-go2de9hi9d]

Alatwalilileni twapapata

[@kongopriest7487]

Twatotela ba Mukuka apashili paku leka, Please kindly talk about the ngoshe-mukote clan in one of your episodes

[@umubemba]

Noted with thanks.

[@ngosachanda8786]

Where can I find this music ?

[@user-go2de9hi9d]

Ukwishiba ukoteatuma cikankalahiba

[@bupekabamba6017]

Bupusanonshi bwaba pamapinda ne nsoselo?

[@umubemba]

Amapinda tufyantikamo ifunde; insoselo mashiwi yepifya ilyashi. E.g. Abalya imbulu, balapalamana (lipinda); Lekeni icisongo cilye landa citumpe (ninsoselo)

[@user-go2de9hi9d]

Lesa acindikwe

[@umubemba]

No kutotelwa

[@dianantimane1885]

What is Ingulu

[@umubemba]

Nature spirits or imilungu

[@georgechanda2412]

To God be the glory