PART I - CHRISTINA 'KICHI' CHIMA - CHILDHOOD

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00:48 - Mutoko

a small town in Mashonaland East province.

02:46 - Budhi

brother.

03:20 - Ku stew

Public feeding scheme employed by the Rhodesian Government prior to UDI. The colloquialism references the stew that was given to children.

03:40 - Stodart Hall

Mbare’s biggest community centre, claims a high but uncelebrated place in the corridors of history. Not many people, especially younger generations, will know that it was in this emblematic building, at the outset of the Second Chimurenga, that nationalists met and plotted confrontation of the colonial Government.

04:20 - Salisbury

Colonial name of the capital city of Zimbabwe, now know as Harare.

04:25 - Baranz

Idiot, unfashionable or ignorant person.

05:30 Baba 

father.

07:11 - Mahachi

Horse gambling.

07:57 - Nyasaland

Colonial name of Malawi, Nyasaland was a British protectorate located in Africa that was established in 1907 when the former British Central Africa Protectorate changed its name. Between 1953 and 1963, Nyasaland was part of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland.

07:57 - Tanganyika

Colonial name of Tanzania.

08:16 - Ujiji

Ujiji is the oldest town in western Tanzania, located about 6 miles south of Kigoma. 

08:17 - Julius Nyerere

(13 April 1922 – 14 October 1999)Julius Kambarage Nyerere was a Tanzanian anti-colonial activist, politician, and political theorist. He governed Tanganyika as Prime Minister from 1961 to 1962 and then as President from 1963 to 1964, after which he led its successor state, Tanzania, as President from 1964 to 1985.

11:05 - Mushandirapamwe, Gwanzura

Nightclubs in Harare in the 1970s & 80s.

11:10 - Highfields

Highfields was then the largest and second oldest high-density suburb or township in Harare, Zimbabwe built to house Rhodesians of African origin. 

11:12 - Skyline, Playboy, Job's night spot

Nightclubs in Zimbabwe in the 1970s & 80s.

12:50 - Dzimba

Houses.

13:20 - fat cook

Fried pastry.

13:56 - Tin times

Parties.

15:06 Chabuta

A form of gambling - based on coin spinning.

16:30 - Standard 6

Last year of primary school.

19:15 - Zezuru

a shona tribe originating from the central parts of Zimbabwe.

19:30 - Manyika

a shona tribe originating from the eastern parts of Zimbabwe.

19: 35 - Zvimba

Zvimba District is a district of Mashonaland West Province, Zimbabwe, with a large population of Zezuru people.

19:38 - Mutupo

Totem by which you know who you are related to.

19:57 - Rufu

Funeral.

20:10 - Kumusha, Kumamisha

Home village.

20:20 - Kuroyiwa

To be bewitched, or something that is sacrilege.

22:02 - Mahabros

Mulberry tree.

22:06 - Mapeaches

Peach tree.

22:49 - Tsuro

Rabbit.

24:40 Isusu

Us people.

25:15 amai

Mother.

Common Shona words used in this episode 

Chirungu - english 

Murungu - white person 

Varungu - white people 

Inini/Ini - myself 

Ma - the 

Pa - at 

Kuti - transition word similar to that so