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Chapter 1- Over view
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Nyau dancers at the Kulamba Ceremony
ZTB, 2007
The Kulamba ceremony held annually in Katete,
Eastern Province, celebrates the harvest in late
August. Paramount Chief Kalonga Gawa Undi of
the Chewa-speaking people of Zambia presides
over the ceremony, which brings together
chiefs from chiefdoms in Malawi, Mozambique
Kulamba Ceremony
and Zambia. A variety of dances such as Gule
Wamukulu (Nyau dance), Gologolo, Makanja,
Muganda, Chinamwali and Chimtali (the female
dance) are performed during the ceremony
(ZTB, 2012).