By Chisomo Phiri
The organizing committee for this year’s Tumbuka cultural festival, Gonapamuhanya, in Rumphi says all is set for the event this coming Saturday.
While not disclosing the amount of money raised from the K120 million budget, the committee chairperson Group Village Headman Jeyeka Mbale says the festival is expected to take place at Kadumuliro cultural site in the district.
He says this year’s event will be celebrated under the theme “Empowerment of Women and Youth for Development.”
Gonapamuhanya annual festival is usually conducted to celebrate the life of the first Tumbuka King, Gonapamuhanya.
The Tumbuka is a small group of people originally from around the Nyika Plateau of the northern Malawi.
They have spread to Zambia, but they are mostly found between the Nkhamanga Kingdom of Rumphi on the south, Tonga on the east and Ngonde on the North.
Basically, they are a quiet people who depend on subsistence farming and hunting.
