The only thing I knew how to do Was to keep on keepin’ on Like a bird that flew Tangled up in blue. ~ Bob Dylan The scientific classification of the African fish eagle, Haliaeetus vocifer, gives a clue to its nature. Derived from the ancient Greek words hali, “at sea” and…
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The Importance of Hand-weaving for the Community & Environment
The Royal Chundu Homeschool Lesson #22 We are realising, more and more, as a global society, the importance and urgency of turning toward organic and sustainable lifestyles and eschewing carbon-heavy, non-biodegradable activities and products, such as plastic. Very often, ironically, these more sustainable ways of living, producing and consuming can…
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The Royal Chundu Homeschool ~ How to Speak Local Bemba
Chef Presidas Kabunda is one of our beloved Bemba-speakers at Royal Chundu There is a beautiful description of a Bemba ceremony recited in the book, “Contact, The First Four Minutes,” by Leonard Sunin. The story goes… “The Babemba tribe of Africa believes that each human being comes into the world…
Add this one to your Easter menu… a Zambian-inspired Crispy Cassava Lavash Recipe for Lesson #18 in the Royal Chundu Homeschool! A popular accompaniment in our lunches and dinners at Royal Chundu is a cassava lavash, a type of Zambian flatbread similar to Middle-Eastern lavash that uses cassava flour, which…
There are times when the silence is exactly what we need, the stillness of a quiet home in the heat of the afternoon when books are taken up and hammocks call to us from under the shade of a waterberry tree. There are times when talking takes over, when the…
In Lesson #11 of the Royal Chundu Homeschool, we look to the stars! “A still more glorious dawn awaits, not a sunrise but a galaxy-rise, a morning filled with 400 billion suns, the rising of the milky way.” ~ Carl Sagan There is nothing quite like gawking up at the…
