Ikubi lya loongo

18/08/2024

30/07/2024

This is Mr Dyson mweene
The chairperson for Ikubi lya loongo

One word for him !!

28/07/2024

It’s was a beautiful event and historic

28/07/2024

28/07/2024

The organizing committee

A huge congratulations on the successful event
It was colorful and beautiful 😍

28/07/2024

25/07/2024

Do Sala women have Influence today?

Well when we talk about Influence today we probably look at leadership that people like CHISELWA, MANINGA, LOONGO showed throughout the history of ba sala people.
With the gender bias that has been hitting the world it has been the world of people with muscle and the fittest. The influence of a sala woman has remained in her marriage life with her charming character to men and not allowing a man to infringe her rights.

Education?
Probably this is one area that has affected a modern day sala woman because most of them are given into marriages at a tender age, no sala girl I stared school with finished her garden 12, most of them are married in polygamous marriages today. Most of them were brilliant girls at school but they never went anywhere, today a woman needs education in order to exert the necessary influence in society.
There has been less influence in political leadership and indeed other leadership positions in as I can remember.
Mwembezhi constituency and Nangoma constituency are a typical sala land and as much as my memory saves me well there has been no Sala woman as an MP or councilor.
The influence of Sala women has dwindled, their voices are not heard in the modern day struggles of political and economical independence.
The Sala land need people like Loongo Inashamwenda, young women like queen CHISELWA, brave women like maninga who will be written in the books of history that they stood for something.
So what about failed failed marriages?

My brother and I had a view that sala women can't manage marriage but this isn't true. Marriage has not always favored an ambitious woman to some extent because an ambitious women will somehow break some norms and boundaries, most sala women are ambitious women the only problem is that their ambitiousness has been hindered by lack of proper education and they end up remaining down the ladder of development.

Are you a modern sala woman? Remember and know tat you were born a Lioness, you refused to be taken as a slave, you changed the course of history, you changed tribes and languages you mothered lions of the throne of Shakumbila chiefdom.
Reclaim your position of influence, get educated, get a business and be a lioness again and be counted.

25/07/2024

SALA WOMEN IN HISTORY AND MODERN SOCIETY.

You will not talk about the origin of ba sala people of Shakumbila chiefdom in Shibuyunji district without a name of woman popping up.

Firstly the lineage of the shakumbila is traced by from queen CHISELWA who was the niece of Chief CHITANDA who was later succeeded by Chiimbwe and Chiimbwe gave the throne Namumbwe her sister, Namumbwe gave the throne Maninga her youngest daughter.
Maninga was the mother to Loongo Inashamwenda the mother of the present day sala people and shakumbila chiefdom.

Throughout the journey of the sala people there was a woman of influence, women carried the entire sala history of today and evidently changed a lot of things around the sala, the Lenje and Bene Mukuni history.

It is important to note that the present day people that are called Lenje are actually originally BENE MUKUNI, this is their original tribe and the language they use is CINE MUKUNI. They were called Lenje because of the Lenje women they married who today are called sala. The entire CINE MUKUNI under the influence of the Lenje Lenje (sala) women that they married changed.

It is also important to note that all descendants of Loongo Inashamwenda the great were fathered by a Malawian hunter, a Chewa called Nkanya.
The brother to Nkanya called Mulumbwe was sent by his Malawian relatives to come and fetch Nkanya back to Malawi but Nkanya was taken by the beauty of sala people and ended up fathering a well known clan in shakumbila chiefdom today called MUCHABI, here lies the lineage of Senior headman muchabi of today. Mulumbwe never returned back to Malawi.

Born and bred in shakumbila chiefdom I found a practice called KULINJIZHA, this is a practice that used to fascinate me because traditionally a woman has to be taken in by a man and not a man going into a women's home and it's calling it marriage. KULINJIZHA simply means a man being taken into marriage by a woman and not the other

25/07/2024

Here is the program for our ceremony this Sunday!!!

Remember to keep time

22/07/2024

Ikubi lya loongo traditional ceremony committee is ready to host you on the Sunday 28th of July 2024

This year is extraordinary and unique
Come as we celebrate our heritage and culture …

14/07/2024

Are you ready