Ten years on and the tale just gets more exciting! Our particular tale, the Royal Chundu story, is inextricably linked to its storytellers ~ the Royal Chundu family. The people of Zambia, of the Zambezi. Our story started in 2010, but it has been in the making for generations, through…
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“If you make it with your hands, you will better understand…”
There’s a line in the song, Mortal Man, by Jeremy Loops, a South African musician. “If you make it with your hands / You will better understand / So keep your feet out / To the calling.” It struck us that that’s just what our Homeschool has given us and many of…
A Royal Chundu music video collaboration ~ “Zambezi” by local Zambian musician, Eric Choonga, aka EC Bling. As part of our hopes and purpose to create a platform for local artists and other local producers and suppliers through Royal Chundu, we bring you another talented Zambezi resident, our own lodge…
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“The Zambezi River Gave Me a New Life” ~ A Zambian Story by a Zambian Writer
An inspiring new voice from the Zambezi… We’ve been working with local seamstress, Mrs Aggie Kalota for some time. Many of us are wearing her dresses as you sit here reading these words… We’ve known the great skill she has with the needle and Chitenge cloth, we’ve seen her magic…
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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…
