FROM CHINAMWALI TO CHILANGIZO:

5. Insa 4 , maye, insa
Insa yatukula
A small antelope, hmm, antelope
An antelope has lifted itselfup
The women, while kneeling, danced by shaking the tummy up and down.
Meaning: You are receiving the chiefs counsel so that you should perform well in your marriage.
6. Nchenje yalowa panyini
Nchenje, yaonanji?
Yaona n 'nkhole
A fly has entered the vagina
A fly, what has it seen?
It has seen the menstration
While the women were rounding the girls, one woman pat the girls on their bottoms.
Meaning: When one is menstruating, she is rotten and she smells. Therefore, she should not have sex.
7. Chagona, chagona apa nchiani
Chimzenga, chimzenga
What is lying here?
It is a chimzenga (animal)
The women pointed at the girls while singing and, at the end ofthe song, one woman
shouted: Tiyeni tigwire (Let us capture!) Then they all responded: Aaa! nyamaa! (Yes! The
animal!).
As they shouted, they all touched the girls and the girls were not supposed to be
surprised (kudzidzimuka), for they should have been warned before.
The following was sang while four women, kneeling down, turned the girls from side
to side. They were picking the money that the tutors had hidden under the girl's
elbows and knees. They burst into another song.
8. Namwali timsande de
Tiwone icho chamluma
Ngati wakula
The song was repeated several times until they finished.
Initiate, let us search, de
Let us see what has bitten her
Ifshe has matured
After collecting the money while still kneeling, they showed the money to each other
and sang,
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