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…
Community Essential Travel
“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…
Let’s go back in time for a moment… 50 years ago, we ventured to the moon for the very first time and Martin Luther King Jr. shared his great dream. 40 years ago, Grease was the word and CNN was born. 30 years ago, Nelson Mandela was released after 27…
At Royal Chundu, the village provides, but it also runs, supports, drives and benefits from the lodge. We are a community-run lodge, one of very few of its kind in Africa. We wanted to explain just what we mean by that, because it’s a model that we believe can create…
