Our use of "tribe" in "Detribalize our Country/Continent (D.O.C.)"

 Some people feel insulted when referred to as a tribe. Others don’t. I have chosen to write my blog in the English language, mainly because my education turned me from a Kalanga speaker to an English speaker, albeit a non-fluent one. However I have since discovered that the English language, just like the Latin before it, is a progression from the Kalanga language. 

When the Human being (Homo Sapiens Tsha-piens) was developed from Homo Erectus by the Anunnaki, the working language was Kalanga. Erectus basically had no language, save for grunts and growls, of the sort monkeys and baboons still use today. Sapiens was developed mainly for work, i.e. digging (“ku tsha” in Kalanga). Man was assigned to work-groups WHEN HIS LANGUAGE SKILLS WERE ALMOST NON-EXISTENT. It is these work-groups that I refer to as “tribes” in English, clearly aware that the English language did not exist at the time. Therefore my use of the word “Tribe” bears no negative connotations. If you were to trace back the origins of the word “tribe” itself you would of course end up in the Kalanga language or pre-Kalanga grunts. My suspicion in this regard is that the Kalanga/preKalanga version is “ti li bu…” meaning “we being under (some chief/king)”. While “bu” is no longer explicitly used in MY version of Kalanga, it is still used by Bakhwa (The Driers) workgroup, commonly referred to as “Bushmen”. Bakhwa refer to modern day Kalanga speakers as “Gubu”, i.e. -underground miners (Gu:-miners; bu:-underground). Bakhwa, as the first human work-group were assigned the task of drying the sweat from the Anunnaki, because the Anunnaki wanted to closely monitor the success or otherwise of Project Homo Sapiens.

Each workgroup was assigned some animal as a totem. The members of that workgroup were forbidden to eat that animal’s meat, with the animal being referred to as the groups “ntupo”. This was the way labour was organised by the gods. As more workgroups were constituted, and as humans spread around the globe, a specialised workgroup was created to assign new “mi-tupo” (plural of ntupo). This work-group, I believe, are the present-day Tunisians. In Kalanga “ku tuna (something)” means to have (something) as one’s ntupo.

Most of humanity have retained the names of these work-groups as their national references, such as “Ba-Tsha-ina” for the Chinese, “Ba-Engi” for the English, “Ba-Dusi” for the Germans and for the “Tutsis” in Rwanda, “Ba-Khuru-Tshi” for the Russians etc. In Africa the retention of the original workgroup name is almost universal. The “Ba-Nguni” exist in South Africa as the Zulus/Xhosas, in Zambia, in Nigeria as the “Ogoni”.

There were five (5) different tribes in my extended family when I was born, starting from my four (4) grandparents down to me. On my mother’s side, she and her father were from the rock droppers of Mapungubwe hill (Balindi baka Chiliga). Her mother was from the Bakhwa (Driers of the Anunnaki). On my father’s side, he and his father were from the rock hewers of Mapungubwe hill (Bahumbe/Umbele). My father’s mother was from the Singers (Bambi) at Mapungugbwe, who were originally Bakhurutshi (Russians), still at Mapungubwe, before emigrating to East Africa and the Middle East, where they eventually became Jews. 

And so I was born into an extended family of at least five (5) different tribes. I knew and was partly raised by all the above individuals. Even as a small boy, I knew that while I shared my tribe with my father and his father, my mother’s tribe was different. Her own mother’s tribe was different from hers etc.

 It is in the above described context that the English word “tribe” is used in this blog – Anunnaki era human work-groups, no negative connotations implied or intended, because tribes in Africa are not antagonistic entities. The antagonisms were introduced by the colonizers who wanted fault lines to exploit and use as levers of control over the populace. For this reason some tribe was randomly chosen, armed and assigned the status of ruler over others.

Our party, “Detribalize Our Country/Continent (D.O.C)” in the context of our country, seeks to break the assignment of any part of our country to any particular tribe. The tribes will continue to exist, and if they so wish, they can pick up the bill currently being paid by our national government to their chiefs (dikgosi). But the national government will only pay the elected leaders of the five provinces of God’s “right hand”; where the Western province is the thumb, and the other four provinces are the Almighty’s “fingers”.