Shakespeare's Franciscan priest becomes an unscrupulous African sangoma who commercializes ancient rituals.
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"People don't come to me because I am gay, they just come to see a sangoma," said Chamane.
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"I have had suicidal thoughts," said Nomsa Mokoena, a 33-year-old sangoma, recalling how her family rejected her when they found out she was a lesbian.
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Tracker would be sullen and resentful, reserving his gentleness for a group of deformed children, called mingi , whom he meets through an "anti-witch" called the Sangoma.
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The highlight was a 2700-person wedding last November at Sabi Sands Game Reserve, in South Africa, where a sangoma (or healer) married the bride and groom.
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Hellinger worked for sixteen years as a missionary in South Africa, where he became fascinated by Zulu ancestor worship—the belief that the spirits of the dead guide the living and must be consulted through the intercession of a sangoma , or diviner.
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Inspired by a sangoma, a type of South African faith healer who, according to belief, can channel ancestral spirits, the character was troublesome for Ms. Mhlongo, as it has been for other South African women, because she felt at times unable to manage dark feelings she believed the ancestors were surfacing.
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Nyembe has a daughter Nyembe who practiced sangoma (Medium/phycic), she had her sangoma initiation when she was only 17, Before knowing she was a sangoma she suffered a serious illness, as a result of being able to connect with the spirits of people who died on the road.In addition she told Time Lives Magazine about the illness. Nyembe daughter also practices sangoma, though she has stopped.
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Once Nkabinde began to train as a sangoma, their trainer said that their lesbianism would be gone by the end of the process. However, after Nkabinde completed their training and became a sangoma, their attraction to women only grew stronger. Nkabinde's abilities as a sangoma include connecting with and controlling their ancestors to manipulate herbs and cure illnesses.
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The Sangoma is a traditional diviner chosen by the ancestors of that particular family. The training of the Sangoma is called "kwetfwasa". At the end of the training, a graduation ceremony takes place where all the local sangoma come together for feasting and dancing. The diviner is consulted for various reasons, such the cause of sickness or even death.
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"Were we Africans really a race of primitives who possessed no knowledge at all before the white man came to Africa?" he asked himself. His grandfather instilled in him the belief that his illness was a sacred calling that he was to become a sangoma, a healer. He underwent thwasa (sangoma training and initiation) with his grandfather and mother's sister, a young sangoma named Mynah.
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Pringle's new apparent nickname in the studios is White Sangoma meaning "White Doctor".
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Letoya left the screen in 2003 to take an eight-month training course at an initiation school to become a sangoma but after a while she put her sangoma duties to one side until she can find a safe place for her practice.
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In 2014, Phelo confirmed his calling as a sangoma, a high spiritual honour in indigenous South African culture.
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Nkunzi Zandile Nkabinde (born December 7, 1975) was a South African sangoma, author, and LGBT activist. They are recognized for their work and writings surrounding LGBT life as a South African, and they are best known for their memoir Black Bull, Ancestors and Me: My Life as a Lesbian Sangoma.
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The album was recorded in Toronto on 18 February 1973. Material from the recording session was released on this album and on Sangoma.
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After their mother passed away, Nkabinde was summoned to become a sangoma. Initially, they resisted until they were bombarded with voices, dreams, and other supernatural forces that urged them to give into becoming a sangoma. A woman came to them in their dream and told them to stop being stubborn because they were destined to perform this work. Eventually, they submitted and began their training.
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In 1997 in post-apartheid South Africa he met Xhosa sangoma Mum Gwevu in the Joza township in Grahamstown, Eastern Cape. Mum Gwevu says she had foreseen his arrival in a dream. He was trained as a sangoma in the Eastern Cape townships, serving a 10-year apprenticeship with Mum Gwevu which he completed in 2007. Mum Gwevu gave him the Xhosa name Ucingolwendaba, which means "messenger".
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Sangoma was released by Sackville Records. The AllMusic reviewer concluded that, "Ibrahim's distinctive percussive style with its emphasis on folk melodies was very much in evidence at this relatively early stage." The Penguin Guide to Jazz observed that the recording was "in dramatic close-up". Material from Sangoma and African Portraits was later compiled in the album Ancient Africa, which was released by Sackville in 1994.
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Semi-synthetic (e.g., LSD) and synthetic drugs (e.g., DPT and 2C-B used by the Sangoma) have also been developed. Alexander Shulgin developed hundreds of entheogens in PiHKAL and TiHKAL.
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John Keith Kelly Lockley (born 1971) is a white South African who is initiated as an igqirha, a traditional healer or sangoma of the Xhosa people. Posted at Lockley's website.
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Sangoma is a solo piano album by Abdullah Ibrahim. It was recorded in 1973 and released by Sackville Records. Parts of the original release were later issued on compilation albums.
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Gugu Gumede (born December 10, 1991) is a South African actress born in KwaZulu-Natal. She is well known for portraying the character of a sangoma, Mamlambo, in the soapie Uzalo.
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Nomfusi accompanied her mother to the weekly sangoma rituals ("Intlombe") where Nomfusi developed her musicality. She is a two-time SAMA nominee, Metro FM Award nominee and performed on multiple local and international tours.
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Mercy Manci (born 28 September 1955 in Eastern Cape, South Africa) is a Xhosa sangoma and HIV activist from South Africa. She has participated and presented at conferences in a.o. Cameroon, Nigeria, and Italy.
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Mashaba always has a sidekick with him, one of his sidekicks is Phusu – an intellectual Sangoma/wizard, who graduated at a fictional university called "Loying University" and obtained a degree in "Loying Engineering". Phusu combines the art of sorcery and science to solve the unsolvable, which makes him a remarkably exceptional Sangoma. Mashaba's second sidekick is Mthembu - a short and chubby man with big eyes and also Noko's mute cop partner. One of the career paths that Mashaba chooses is becoming a police detective.
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The tour concluded with two concerts held in Harare, Zimbabwe, which were filmed in 1987 for release as Graceland: The African Concert. After touring the world with Simon, Warner Bros. Records signed Makeba and she released Sangoma ("Healer"), an album of healing chants named in honour of her sangoma mother. Her involvement with Simon caused controversy: Graceland had been recorded in South Africa, breaking the cultural boycott of the country, and thus Makeba's participation in the tour was regarded as contravening the boycott (which Makeba herself endorsed).
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Zwide kaLanga (1758–1825) was the King of the Ndwandwe (Nxumalo) nation from about 1805 to around 1820. He was the son of Langa KaXaba, a Nxumalo king. Legend has it that Zwide's mother, Queen Ntombazi, was a sangoma.
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FreePBX was acquired by Schmooze.com in early 2013. That firm was, in turn, taken over by Sangoma Technologies Corporation on Jan 2, 2015. FreePBX is a community of developers and contributors who devote their work to making complicated phone system software easy to use and functional.
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The line of applications include WebRTC, unified communications, IVR, on-demand voicemail and cloud- based PBX. On January 9, 2018, Sangoma Technologies Corporation acquired all key assets of the Converged Communication Division (CCD) from Dialogic Corporation. By divesting its CCD hardware business, Dialogic became a software-centric company.
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In 2004, NullTeam, the company behind Yate, launched the official website. In 2005 Sangoma announced their support for Yate development on the Microsoft Windows platform. On May 4, 2011 sipgate announced that it had chosen the Yate project for its core infrastructure. Yate version 5.0 was released in January 2014.
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Credo called himself a sanusi (common spelling isanuse) which is a type of Zulu diviner or sangoma. The term stems from a more historic time and is not widely used today, even in a traditional setting. Credo lived with his wife Virginia in Kuruman, where they ran a hospice clinic.
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Elifasi Msomi a.k.a. The Axe Killer (1910 - 10 February 1956) was a South African serial killer who was convicted in 1955 of 15 murders and sentenced to death by hanging. His victims all came from the Umkomaas and Umzimkulu valleys of KwaZulu-Natal. A Zulu man, Msomi was an unsuccessful young sangoma (shaman).
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Motsoeneng was born in either Phuthaditjhaba, Free State in South Africa or Thaba Bosiu in Lesotho, where he was raised by his aunt. His mother is a sangoma. He attended Qhibi Ha Sethunya primary school in Qwa Qwa, Free State. Motsoeneng went on to Metsi Matsho High School, but did not matriculate.
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Native to the Zulu people, witches called sangoma protect people against evil spirits. They usual train for about five to seven years. In the cities, this training could take only several months. Another type of witch are the inyanga, who are actual witch doctors that heal people with plant and animal parts.
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Summit on Pan-African & African Diasporan Women's Sexual & Reproductive Health and Justice. She was also a frequent collaborator with the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS). Mabele completed her training as a sangoma (traditional doctor) in 2004. She took ARVs when they became available on the public health system in South Africa.
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Masego Kgomo was a 10-year-old South African girl whose body parts were removed and sold to a sangoma in Soshanguve, South Africa. The little girl's body was found in bushes near the Mabopane railway station, north-west of Pretoria. Thirty-year- old Brian Mangwale was found guilty of the murder and sentenced to life imprisonment.
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Lockley was born in Cape Town in 1971 during apartheid to an Irish mother and a Zimbabwean father with British ancestry. Posted at Lockley's website. He completed an honours degree in clinical psychology at Rhodes University in 1997. Shortened version of "You cannot choose to be a sangoma" by Jonathan Ancer in The Star, 23 March 2007.
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Witches, identified as such by a witch doctor (sangoma), were instantly condemned to die without a hearing. Dingane's subjects were often executed for supposed witchcraft, besides possessing prohibited beads, wearing clothes of a particular colour, or clothes that resembled those worn by the king. Casting a glance at any of the king's 500 concubines was also punishable by death.
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Tiko and Toki are brought before Sangoma (Sam Ntsinyi) and the tribe and banished for bringing Nukie into their midst. Sister Anne is mortified, and tells the Corporal to go looking for them. Nukie finds the boys and asks why they were banished. When they explain, Nukie expresses disbelief and tells them to get some sleep.
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Lalla Hirayama was born in Hiratsuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. She is the only child born to a Japanese mother and a white South African father of Jewish descent. In one interview she said she was brought up in the old school typical Japanese way “think Samurais and Zen”. Her father, although a white Jewish man, is a sangoma (shaman).
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Elastix 2.5 has a good support for telephony hardware. It includes drivers for the major manufacturers like Dinstar, OpenVox, Digium, Khomp, Sangoma Technologies Corporation, Rhino Equipment, Xorcom, and Yealink. The most of these drivers are supported through the zaptel project or modified versions of it. Other drivers are supported by the mISDN project and other projects.
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Body parts of some of his victims are alleged to have been provided to a local traditional healer or sangoma. Taki was remanded at Westville Prison during his trial. On 21 February 2010, Taki, along with eight other prisoners, attempted to escape from the prison. Taki fell from the roof of his fourth floor cell, seriously injuring himself while his accomplices successfully escaped.
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38 either malevolently, or through neglect if they are not respected, or to show an individual her calling to become a sangoma (thwasa).Susan Schuster Campbell "Called to Heal" p. 79 For harmony between the living and the dead, vital for a trouble-free life, the ancestors must be shown respect through ritual and animal sacrifice.David M Cumes "Africa in my bones" p.
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Born near Chinhoyi, (formerly called Sinoia) in what in 1927 was Southern Rhodesia, Joram Mariga was ethnically Shona and spoke Zezuru, a local dialect. He was the son of a sangoma, and both of his parents were artistic. His father and elder brothers (Copper and Douglas) were expert woodcarvers, while his mother made pottery. All of them sold their work to members of the community.
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Nomfusi Gotyana, known mononymously as Nomfusi, is a South African singer and performer of Afro-Soul music. She was born in the township of KwaZhakele in the Eastern Cape. Her mother Kwazibani (“Who Knows?” in English) raised her while her father languished in jail for 21 years. A domestic worker by day, Kwazibani was a sangoma (African medicine woman) with a gift for music.
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Prudence Nobantu Mabele (21 July 1971 – 10 July 2017) was a South African activist who advocated for the rights of women and children living with HIV/AIDS , and against gender-based violence. She was diagnosed with HIV/AIDS in 1990 and went public with her status in 1992. She set up the Positive Women's Network in 1996. She worked with UNAIDS and also qualified as a sangoma.
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By 1919, an Anglican Community of the Resurrection mission was established by Fr. Augustine Moeka in Marishane. Masemola attended classes in preparation for baptism with her cousin Lucia, against the wishes of her parents. Her parents took her to a Sangoma (African traditional healer), claiming that she had been bewitched. She was prescribed a traditional remedy, which her parents made her consume by beating her.
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African Portraits was released by Sackville Records. The AllMusic reviewer concluded that, "There are many recordings available by the unique pianist, and this set is an above-average and consistently stirring effort." The Penguin Guide to Jazz observed that the recording was "in dramatic close-up". Material from African Portraits and Sangoma was later compiled in the album Ancient Africa, which was released by Sackville in 1994.
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In the 1986 South African TV series, Shaka Zulu, Mashobane was beheaded by Ndwandwe soldiers and his head given to the Sangoma Queen Ntombazi of the Ndwandwe who was Zwide's mother. Ntombazi was a feared wizard. Ntombazi had warned her son, Zwide about keeping Mashobane's head as that will bring misfortune into the Ndwandwe Kingdom. Indeed misfortune befell the kingdom as she had warned.
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Kramer began to play trumpet, when she was ten years old. From 1983, she attended the vocational school department of Jazz school St. Gallen, where she studied under Benny Bailey and Art Lande. Afterwards she worked in Italy with Claudio Fasoli's quintet, with Gianluigi Trovesi. She performed with the musicians like Steve Lacy, Enrico Rava, Joe Henderson, Bob Mover, Sal Nistico, Chet Baker or Sangoma Everett.
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Nkabinde has produced a variety of work and has conducted research surrounding LGBT identity as a sangoma in South Africa. This work encompasses journal articles, a documentary, and an autobiography. Nkabinde's work has been perceived as activism because its existence and publication challenges Zulu tradition and the concept that homosexuality is "un-African." In doing so, Nkabinde helps to amplify other LGBTQ narratives in South Africa and around the continent.
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Seeking professional assistance, he consulted with another sangoma. Msomi claims that during this exchange he was co-opted by an evil spirit, a tokoloshe. In August 1953, under the instruction of the tokoloshe, Msomi began an 18-month killing spree in the southern KwaZulu-Natal valleys of South Africa. Msomi initially raped and murdered a young woman in the presence of his mistress, whose blood he kept in a bottle.
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2C-B is an entactogen commonly used at public places, like rave parties. Entheogens used by movements includes biota like peyote (Native American Church), extracts like ayahuasca (Santo Daime, União do Vegetal), the semi-synthetic drug LSD (Neo-American Church), and synthetic drugs like DPT (Temple of the True Inner Light) and 2C-B (Sangoma). Both Santo Daime and União do Vegetal now have members and churches throughout the world.
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Many of these traditional healers leave their modern careers after being 'called' by the ancestors until they have fulfilled their healing duties. Traditional healers receive their 'calling' from ancestors through visions and dreams and are unable to deny the calling. A rejection of the calling could lead to sickness or even death. A sangoma once claimed to have healed a 17-year-old boy from the HIV/AIDS in these caves.
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Zenzile Miriam Makeba was born on 4 March 1932 in the black township of Prospect, near Johannesburg. Her Swazi mother, Christina Makeba, was a sangoma, or traditional healer, and a domestic worker. Her Xhosa father, Caswell Makeba, was a teacher; he died when she was six years old. Makeba later said that before she was conceived, her mother had been warned that any future pregnancy could be fatal.
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University of California Press, Berkeley, 1982. p. 112 The term sangoma, as employed in Zulu and congeneric languages, is effectively equivalent to shaman. Sangomas are highly revered and respected in their society, where illness is thought to be caused by witchcraft,David M Cumes "Africa in my bones" p. 14 pollution (contact with impure objects or occurrences), bad spirits, or the ancestors themselves,Susan Schuster Campbell "Called to Heal" p.
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Digium, Inc., a communications technology company based in Huntsville, Alabama, and since 2018 a subsidiary of Sangoma Technologies. In 1999, Digium's founder Mark Spencer created Asterisk, the open source software project that can be used to turn a personal computer into a communications server or Voice over IP (VoIP) phone system. Today, Digium's core business lines include Switchvox, the Asterisk-based VoIP business phone system, Digium IP phones, and Asterisk telephony software and hardware products.
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She was an initiated sangoma, which heavily influenced her music. In the 1970s, Mhlongo relocated to London, later recording with other South African artists who were living in exile, such as Dudu Pukwana, and Julian Bahula. By the 1980s, she performed internationally, performing with other well-renowned artists such as Salif Keita. By the early 1990s, she began releasing her own individual works, with her first album, Barbentu, being released in 1993.
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Gouirand then began to compose and record regularly, first for JAM. His first album, Islands (1981), featured Chris Mc Gregor on piano. In 1982, Gouirand appeared on Dyani's album Grand Mother's Teaching, a selection of music with jazz and South African roots. The albums Mouvements Naturels (1982) and Chanting & Dancing (1985) were recorded with his new group World Music Company, and feature Pierre Dorge, Johnny Dyani, Sangoma Everett and Cheikh Tidiane Fall.
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Eventually, after he discovered that she was taking contraceptives behind his back, something that was taboo at that time, their marriage ended and he sent her back to her family. Instead of returning to her family's home, she went to Johannesburg and found a job as a Doctor's assistant. While she was living in Johannesburg, she fell sick and began to dream strangely. Eventually a traditional healer would confirm that she need to answer a calling to become a sangoma.
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Umxhentso is the traditional dancing of Xhosa people performed mostly by Amagqirha, the traditional healers/Sangoma. Ukuxhentsa-Dancing has always been a source of pride to the Xhosas as they use this type of dancing in their ceremonies. This dancing includes overt shoulder movements that include shaking the thoracic and the rest of the upper body, stomping barefoot. Umxhentso is usually accompanied by a drum beat or slow vocal music called ukhombela with clapping to give the dancers a rhythm to follow.
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Miko asks Toki where Nukei is, and Toki replies that he may know where he has been taken. Back in the village, the tribe has Nukie locked up in a cage, but the Corporal tells Sangoma that he is more valuable alive than dead. Toki sneaks up on the party and sneaks into the Corporal's truck as he makes off with Nukie. While at a nearby trading post, Charlie the Chimpanzee attempts to free Nukie, but it takes Toki to break him out.
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Nkabinde's most popular work is their memoir, Black Bull, Ancestors and Me: My Life as a Lesbian Sangoma. Within the book, they explain their familial history and culture, particularly the importance of their ancestors and how this impacts their life. They also explore their strong and unwavering attraction to women throughout the book, and their dream of having a penis. They explain how the male ancestor after which they were named is dominant, present in their life, and influences their sexuality, including their identity as a lesbian.
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More than 200 concerts and exhibits by some 70 contemporary dance, theater, music, visual and video artists were sponsored annually by Dance Theater Workshop. DTW presented notable artists including: Mark Morris, David Gordon, Bill T. Jones, Laura Dean, Susan Marshall, Ron Brown, Donald Byrd, H.T. Chen, David Dorfman, Doug Elkins, Molissa Fenley, Whoopi Goldberg, Lawrence Goldhuber, Margaret Fisher, Janie Geiser, Bill Irwin, LadyGourd Sangoma, Ralph Lemon, Bebe Miller, Michael Moschen, David Parsons, Lenny Pickett, Merián Soto, Pepón Osorio, Paul Zaloom and hundreds of others.
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A jealous person will approach an evil witch doctor, shaman or Sangoma to take vengeance on someone they have some issue with. They would have to promise the soul of a loved one but cannot choose who, the Tokoloshe chooses the soul it decides to take. The witch doctor first needs to locate a dead body to be possessed. They must pierce its eye sockets and brain with a hot iron rod, so that it cannot think for itself and obeys only its master.
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John Thornton, "The Development of an African Catholic Church in the Kingdom of Kongo, 1491-1750," Journal of African History In modern Kikongo Christian priests are often called "Nganga a Nzambi" or "priests of God." In South Africa, the inyanga has a medicinal role, in contrast to the sangoma, who deals with divination and the ancestral spirits, however, the distinction has become blurred in some areas and many traditional healers tend to practice both arts. In Swahili, mganga refers to a qualified physician or traditional healer.
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Behaving with ubuntu, or showing respect and generosity towards others, enhances one's moral standing or prestige in the community, one's isithunzi. By contrast, acting in a negative way towards others can reduce the isithunzi, and it is possible for the isithunzi to fade away completely. Zulu sangomas (diviners) In order to appeal to the spirit world, a diviner (sangoma) must invoke the ancestors through divination processes to determine the problem. Then, a herbalist (inyanga) prepares a mixture (muthi) to be consumed in order to influence the ancestors.
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Botha's abuse and his inferiority complex strikes PK with a severe case of nocturnal enuresis, a habit which he eventually overcomes with local sangoma Dabula Manzi. In conquering his nightmares, PK is given a chicken (Mother Courage), which becomes his closest companion. Botha subsequently captures PK and Mother Courage and has them tried before a mock court while elaborating on the depth of his hatred for the British--a people he holds responsible for atrocities committed during the Second Boer War. The Afrikaans boys hang Mother Courage and kill her with a rock.
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Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa (21 July 1921 – 25 March 2020) was a Zulu sangoma (traditional healer) from South Africa. He was known as an author of books that draw upon African mythology, traditional Zulu folklore, extraterrestrial encounters and his own personal encounters. His last work was a graphic novel called the Tree of Life Trilogy based on his writings of his most famous book, Indaba my Children. In 2018 he was honoured with an USIBA award presented by the South African Department of Arts and Culture, for his work in Indigenous Wisdom.
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Inyanga/Sangoma from Johannesburg, South Africa Successful Cesarean section performed by indigenous healers in Kahura, Uganda. As observed by R. W. Felkin in 1879. Many traditional medicinal practitioners are people without formal education, who have rather received knowledge of medicinal plants and their effects on the human body from their forebears and by observation. Traditional practitioners and their practices vary but common features among them are a personal involvement in the healing process; protection of the therapeutic knowledge by keeping it a secret; and being rewarded for their services.
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Knot of Stone is a tale of historical detection in which a Dutch historian, Sonja Haas, and an Afrikaans archaeologist, Jason Tomas, find themselves drawn together after discovering a five-century-old skeleton at the foot of Table Mountain. Their search for new evidence leads them north to ancestral burial sites, remote mountain sanctuaries, sacred springs, medieval monasteries and rare museum artefacts. Via various roadside encounters, including the revelations of a sangoma (a healer empowered by the ancestors), they reconstruct the past and their own identities, with divergent consequences.Joseph Nthini (October 28, 2011).
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Because director Julie Taymor felt that the story lacked a strong female character, Rafiki was changed into a female mandrill and sangoma. She acts as narrator throughout the story, at one point speaking to the audience in a click language for comic effect. She sings the opening song "Circle of Life", a keening song called "Rafiki Mourns" following Mufasa's death, and a brief part in Nala's song "Shadowland", when she blesses Nala for her journey to find help. Instead of detecting Simba's scent on dust, Rafiki hears Simba's song "Endless Night" on the wind.
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He also managed the multi-ethnic dance troupes Mzumba, Sangoma, and the Gold Reef Dancers, which performed in feature films, theaters, and hotels and appeared on four continents. In 1974 Mafela co-starred in the first all-black movie made in South Africa, as Peter Pleasure in Udeliwe. He worked with director Peter R. Hunt (famed for the James Bond movie On Her Majesty's Secret Service) in the 1976 film Shout at the Devil. With the advent of television in South Africa in 1976, Mafela worked almost continuously in that medium.
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She and her husband had four children and she studied her cultural heritage at the Royal Museum for Central Africa in Tervuren. She appeared around Europe and America in the group Bula Sangoma in the mid 1980s and they created an album in 1985. In 1988 she returned home too late to be reunited with her mother who died in Rwanda just before she arrived. She sang her song about happiness which was titled "Umunezero" and the song was said to be popular with the Rwandan Patriotic Front.
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On the 3 November 2013 number of vigilante mobs totalling around 700 people attacked alleged gang members across Khutsong. Six people died in the attacks including five alleged gangsters and one sangoma believed to have been giving the gangsters muti and moral support. It is reported that the event took place as a result of high levels of violent crime and the ongoing abduction of young girls as well and the recruitment of school children into the gangs. Local community members tried to organise a meeting with the police but were unable to gain an audience with them.
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Ordained at 18, Eikerenkoetter spent three years at the Center for Personal Transformation in the study of deep meditative techniques, received a BA in philosophy from Columbia University and a master's in counseling psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute, focusing on Jungian and depth psychology. Eikerenkoetter's musical studies include four years at the Harrison School of Music. He also studied shamanic training and healing and initiatory drumming techniques with Quechua (Peru), Dagara (Burkina Faso), and Sangoma (Zimbabwe) medicine men, and with the Masai tribe in Kenya. He learned the art of djembe, dunun, and Mandingue drumming from Mamady Keïta and Malinke.
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Table Mountain, as seen from the Cape Town harbour Prominent Zulu sangoma and writer Credo Mutwa has recited a mythical legend of how, when uQamata wanted to create dry land, the sea dragon Inkanyamba interfered. Qamata's mother (though He is actually spirit and of no genealogical origin), uJobela, created four giants to help him in work and battle Inkanyamba. When Qamata's task was completed and enough dry land had been recovered, the giants were turned to stone so they could continue to keep watch over the land. The southernmost of them, Umlindi Wemingizimu ("Watcher of the South") became Huriǂoaxa (so-called "Table Mountain") at ǁHuiǃgaeb, South Africa.
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In 2013, she portrayed a main role on Mzansi Magic's Zabalaza until it's departure in 2015 which featured Baby Cele. In 2016, on Mzansi Magic's drama series Isikizi; she starred as Nomazwe, a mother who gives birth to a prince's son who is declared by the king's Sangoma (traditional healer) as a cursed newborn who'll grow to kill his father and marry his mother. She starred the role of princess Nomakhwezi on Igazi's Season 1, a Shona and Connie Ferguson production, alongside Vatiswa Ndara, Jet Novuka and the late Nomhle Nkonyeni. She currently stars a main role of Vuyiswa Jola on The Queen, alongside Shona Ferguson and Connie Ferguson.
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Initially, Nkabinde's rural parents thought he had been "witched", and took him to a sangoma. When the healer provided the simple explanation that Nkabinde was only "growing up", Nkabinde's parents put their minds at rest. Nkabinde himself joined the kwela group Alexandra Black Mambazo (from which the Ladysmith choir would later take its name), among the members his older brother Zeph and Aaron "Big Voice Jack" Lerole, the originator of the singing style later known as "groaning". In the later 1950s, Nkabinde joined the "black music" division of EMI, led by prolific talent scout and producer Rupert Bopape, and began recording with female artists such as the Dark City Sisters and the Flying Jazz Queens.
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Buhlebezwe Kamohelo Siwani is a visual artist living and working in Cape Town with a focus on performance, photography, sculpture and installation. She completed her Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honors) at the Wits School of Arts in Johannesburg in 2011 and her Masters in Fine Arts at the University of Cape Town Michaelis School of Fine Arts in 2015. Thematically Siwani's work interrogates the patriarchal framing of the black female body and black female experience within the South African context, along with issues of spirituality and religion, femininity and colonialism. As an initiated sangoma, Siwani has also used her artistic practice to delve into religious subjects and the often-perplexing relationship between Christianity and African spirituality.
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Davy has collaborated with jazz musicians from several countries, including Sangoma Everett (the US, now based in France), Pibo Marquez(Venezuela), Paul Shigihara (Japanese-German), Doudou Gouirand (France), Roman Rahut (Poland), Krzesimir Debski (Poland), and Claude Deppa (South Africa). He has also worked with Crass Agenda. Following work on his album, The Thoth Project, Davy resumed freelancing on trumpet in London with a number of artists, including Finley Quaye, Lamb, and more recently, Cymande. He has also periodically held revivals of "Kevin Davy's Monster Jam", at various London venues, combining musicians and vocalists from around the U.K. Most recently he has hosted jam sessions at the Rich Mix venue in Bethnal Green, and at the Cat's Back in Wandsworth.
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Sangoma/Inyanga performing a traditional baptism on a baby in order to protect the spirit of the baby, Johannesburg, South Africa In Mali, Dogon sorcerers (both male and female) communicate with a spirit named Amma, who advises them on healing and divination practices. The classical meaning of shaman as a person who, after recovering from a mental illness (or insanity) takes up the professional calling of socially recognized religious practitioner, is exemplified among the Sisala (of northern Gold Coast): "the fairies "seized" him and made him insane for several months. Eventually, though, he learned to control their power, which he now uses to divine."Eugene L. Mendonsa : The Politics of Divination : a Processual View of Reactions to Illness and Deviance among the Sisala.
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When his village suffered strong storms again in January 1990, the elders decided that the lightning occurred due to magic and thus demanded a tax from all their residents to pay for a sangoma to "sniff out" the witch who caused the storms. Refusing to believe this, Daswa said they were just a natural phenomenon and declined to pay the tax. On 2 February 1990, Daswa drove his sister-in-law and her sick child to a doctor in Thohoyandou and en route, picked up a man who asked for his help to take a bag of mealie meal to his home in a town next to Mbahe. At around 7:30pm, he returned to Mbahe where he left his sister-in-law and child near their home.
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Produced were the model 200 and 220. Another 100-series set, the snom 190, with the same form factor of the 200, concluded this technology level in the Fall of 2004, and paved the way for the 300-series released in Winter 2004. All of snom's software exists in the firmware of its phones, and VoIP telephones support all common standards, as well as the latest technologies for traversal of network address translators (NAT), telephone number mapping (ENUM), and virtual private networks (VPN). All snom phones are compatible with SIP-based telephone systems and system components, including open source platforms such as Asterisk, SER, sipXecs, and IP-PBX systems offered by companies such as BroadSoft, Epygi (Quadro IP PBX), MetaSwitch, Pandora (Worksmart), ADTRAN (NetVanta UC Server), pbxnsip, Sylantro, Sangoma Technologies Corporation, and others.
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Nkabinde was on a journey of self- discovery as they explored the intersections of their sexuality and gender identity. Initially, they identified as a lesbian sangoma and represented this within the majority of their work. Towards the end of their lifetime, they began to reimagine their identity as a transgender man. Academic Ruth Morgan, who has worked closely with Nkabinde, reports that they had intentions to release a book about their experiences as a transgender man before their death. As Nkabinde’s life was cut short during this journey, it is unsure which gender pronouns would best reflect their gender identity. Some scholars refer to Nkabinde with feminine “she/her” pronouns which is what Nkabinde used for themself in their autobiography. Others use “they/them” as gender neutral pronouns and few use “he/him” as masculine pronouns.
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In 1818 at the Battle of Amalinde, Makana fought alongside a combined force of the Xhosa against Chief Ngqika, who was considered to be selling out his people in return for personal gain as an ally of the British Empire. When a British-led force commanded by Colonel Brereton seized 23,000 head of cattle from Ndlambe’s people in retaliation, Makhanda urged all the Xhosa to unite to try to drive British forces out of Xhosaland once and for all. Makhanda advised Ndlambe that the gods would be on their side if they chose to strike back at the British at Grahamstown, and promised that the British "bullets would turn to water".22 April 1819: The fifth Frontier War: Sangoma Makana attacks Grahamstown under the patronage of Xhosa Chief Ndlambe, and is defeated - South African History Online Ndlambe took Makana’s advice, and on 22 April 1819 Makana led an raid on Grahamstown in broad daylight with a force of about 6,000 men (some sources say 10,000 men), all under the overall command of Ndlambe's son Mdushane.
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The plot, narrated in flashback and with non-chronological episodes, centers on the character of Tracker, a man known far and wide for his skills as a hunter: "He has a nose," people say. Engaged on a tracking quest by the slaver Amadu Kasawura, to find a mysterious boy who disappeared three years earlier in the North Kingdom, Tracker breaks his own rule of always working alone when he finds himself part of a group that comes together to search for the boy. Over nine years, Tracker’s trials connect him with the Leopard, a shape-shifting hunter and Fumeli his bowman; Nyka, a skin-shedding mercenary (both of whom are former lovers of Tracker); the Sangoma, a divinatory healer who protects cast out children and cast a protective charm on Tracker and taught him minor spells; a centuries-old Moon Witch named Sogolon; a giant called an Ogo that they call Sadogo; a prefect soldier named Mossi that "smells of myrrh" and appears to be sexually attracted to Tracker; and dozens more. The band in the quest is a hodgepodge full of unusual characters with secrets of their own.
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