Transcript BANYAMULENGE

BANYAMULENGE
Who is Banyamulenge?
 Banyamulenge are mainly Tutsi, and pastoralists people living in
in small mountain East of Congo DRC, South Kivu province
 Banyamulenge is a tribe from Congo DRC
 In Banyamulenge Community also integrated other Congolese
tribes
 The Banyamulenge mainly live in the Minembwe, Fizi and Uvira
Territories in the southwest of the Province
 Banyamulenge main issue and reasons for the conflicts:
National identity is always detested by other Congolese
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Culture
 The Banyamulenge live in hamlets in areas that
are suited to their livestock
 Until the late 70’s, they were semi-nomadic. Their
movement depended on the health of families and
their livestock
 Banyamulenge have the talent to sing (indirimbo),
dance (imbyino) and poetry (ibyivugo or ibironda)
 Marriage is unique in the Banyamulenge
community and between two families belonging
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to two different clans.
 A cow (inka) is considered as something very
important
 We get Milk (amata), meat (inyama) and butter
(amavuta) from the cow
 Cows horns (amahembe) were used as water
containers; its skin (uruhu) for clothing and
mats
 The cow served as dowry (inkwano) and as
economic source for the family
 Traditionally, sheep (intama) was considered as
a peaceful and sacred animal
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Christianity and Banyamulenge
 God (Imana) is over every things
 About 80 % are evangelical or Pentecostal
protestants and 20% Catholic
 God (Imana) is only invoked when all other
earthly, spiritual possibilities and other
alternatives things had failed to save a situation.
 God (Imana) is an expression to impossibilities
 Only God is able to repair the unrepairable, hence
the expression ahasigaye nah’ Imana ….” (only
God knows …) is still
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About Banyamulege Choir from Sheffield
 The Choir love God and praise the Lord by
singing and dancing for the Lord
 The mission of this Choir is to spread the
gospel by singing and praise the Lord with
songs ,dances and Music
 Most of Banyamulenge are refugee in UK
 They have been brought by UK Government
through the process of resettlement
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Why do we sing and Dance for the God
 The Bible say in Psalms 146:1-2
Praise the Lord! Praise the Lord, my soul! I will
praise him as long as I live; I will sing to my God
all my life.
 The Kind David has danced for the Lord
2 Samuel 6:14
David, wearing only a linen cloth round his waist,
danced with all his might to honour the Lord
 A Hymn of Praise Psalms: 149:1-6
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UK Banyamulenge Community
 Banyamulenge members live in different cities in
UK
 We work together with other UK Residents to
improve the integration in society
 We meet at different events; Christian event
remembrance day (Gatumba and other
Banyamulenge Innoncent people who died
because of being Banyamulenge
 Banyamulenge Community promote
communication, development and mutual
support among member of the community
 The community try to build bridges between our
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communities