KUTUGUANGO OF CENTELLA Translated

By Macho PatiLemba

In a desolate territory of Congo, where two rivers divide, appeared a whirlpool in the middle of great battle, a tribe of few men, painted on red blood, fought fiercely against an innumerable army that almost had won the battle, this whirlpool that touched the sky cover them and painted them on brown with mud, not allowing their enemies to see them and decimating them on each turns the huge army that was in front. Days later, still in the celebrations of the victory of the battle, a woman arrives with a black complexion as ebony, with a staff where they hang the kiyumbas and wrapped in several frabics brown and purple. The king of the tribe, who was Nkulu sat the traveler in the circle of the campfire, where all the women should be: in the middle of the night, the king called the visitor and asked her who she was and where she came from, to which she replied: ''I'm your man's prayer it is I who have always been with you, I'm the one that escapes for you, I am the moonless night and starless night, I am the queen with army that you can never see, but in each of your battle, my army grows. I am death made woman.

''With these words been said, the king retired to his hut, the next morning, seeing that the traveler was still standing in the same spot where he had left her. He asked, What do you want from me and my people? she rersponded: - '' From you; I want you, because I fell in love, for your ferocity, for your intelligence, your wisdom, for your loyalty to the tribe, for your loyalty to the religion, for your courage and your wisdom in justice; and your tribe, I want to learn how to be as faithful to you like them, I want to know the secrets they have to depart without fear or arrival to my kingdom, I want to learn what is happiness and joy. '' Nkulu, prisoner of a great tribulation that the words of that woman has caused him, decided to take her as his wife, she would be his ninth wife and the youngest of all, at 9th day of his desicion, the sound of a lighting, appeared nine piles of riches That symbolized this queen's dowry. It was the most fulling moment of that tribe, the ninth wife would give the king nine children, 4 females and 5 men, the first male and who would inherit his father kingdom the day he pass away, (that tribe was called historically the ZULU). Centella Ndoki, as that tribe's name her due to the lightning where all her wealth appeared and Ndoki to her reign, she learned to be a fierce warrior so bold, as was the King her husband, wisely utilizing the lightings in battles and the whirlwind of nfumbis, to cover and protect her tribe.

Nine days after the departure of Nkulu, Centella Ndoki, was discredited by the other king's wives, and putting it the tribe against her, after being the dearest, she became the most forgotten. One day she stood at the door of campo lemba and told tribe: I have learned a lot from your king and you, especially the treachery and betray of which I have been subjected These past days; here where everyone see me, I will always be, I'm going, but not to leave you alone, but to join those that I would never separate from, and one by one they will join me, and my voice will be the only one Listened, since I will be the only one that would accept them or not. As she turned back to enter, she was wrapped in a whirlwind of nfumbes and in a lightning she disappeared. From those days until today Centella Ndoki has been revered and all her reverence are on Campo Lemba as owner of the cemetery as owner of the Nfumbes and the door of the cemeteries. Some say that this Npungo could be divided into three stages. Centellita: young and exuberant woman, full of riches and adherence to her principles Centella: Woman mother and warrior, defiant and without fear of any warrior or battle, full of An ambition of learning to be human

Centella Ndoki: The woman betrayed by her people, who for love, rejoined the one she loves, making the sacrifice to leave everything to follow him, and giving it all without expect nothing.