KUTUGUANGO OF CENTELLA

Translated
By
Macho PatiLemba
In a desolate territory of Congo, where two rivers divide,
appeared a whirlpool in the middle of great battle, a tribe
of few men, painted on red blood, fought fiercely against an
innumerable army that almost had won the battle, this
whirlpool that touched the sky cover them and painted
them on brown with mud, not allowing their enemies to see
them and decimating them on each turns the huge army that
was in front.
Days later, still in the celebrations of the victory of the
battle, a woman arrives with a black complexion as ebony,
with a staff where they hang the kiyumbas and wrapped in
several frabics brown and purple.
The king of the tribe, who was Nkulu sat the traveler in the
circle of the campfire, where all the women should be: in
the middle of the night, the king called the visitor and asked
her who she was and where she came from, to which she
replied:
''I'm your man's prayer it is I who have always been with
you, I'm the one that escapes for you, I am the moonless
night and starless night, I am the queen with army that you
can never see, but in each of your battle, my army grows. I
am death made woman.

''With these words been said, the king retired to his hut, the
next morning, seeing that the traveler was still standing in
the same spot where he had left her.
He asked, What do you want from me and my people?
she rersponded:
- '' From you; I want you, because I fell in love, for your
ferocity, for your intelligence, your wisdom, for your
loyalty to the tribe, for your loyalty to the religion, for your
courage and your wisdom in justice; and your tribe, I want
to learn how to be as faithful to you like them, I want to
know the secrets they have to depart without fear or arrival
to my kingdom, I want to learn what is happiness and joy. ''

Nkulu, prisoner of a great tribulation that the words of that

woman has caused him, decided to take her as his wife, she
would be his ninth wife and the youngest of all, at 9th day
of his desicion, the sound of a lighting, appeared nine piles
of riches That symbolized this queen's dowry.
It was the most fulling moment of that tribe, the ninth wife
would give the king nine children, 4 females and 5 men, the
first male and who would inherit his father kingdom the
day he pass away, (that tribe was called historically the
ZULU).
Centella Ndoki, as that tribe's name her due to the
lightning where all her wealth appeared and Ndoki to her
reign, she learned to be a fierce warrior so bold, as was the
King her husband, wisely utilizing the lightings in battles
and the whirlwind of nfumbis, to cover and protect her
tribe.

Nine days after the departure of Nkulu, Centella Ndoki,

was discredited by the other king's wives, and putting it the
tribe against her, after being the dearest, she became the
most forgotten. One day she stood at the door of campo
lemba and told tribe:
I have learned a lot from your king and you, especially the
treachery and betray of which I have been subjected These
past days; here where everyone see me, I will always be,
I'm going, but not to leave you alone, but to join those that I
would never separate from, and one by one they will join
me, and my voice will be the only one Listened, since I will
be the only one that would accept them or not. As she
turned back to enter, she was wrapped in a whirlwind of
nfumbes and in a lightning she disappeared.
From those days until today Centella Ndoki has been
revered and all her reverence are on Campo Lemba as
owner of the cemetery as owner of the Nfumbes and the
door of the cemeteries. Some say that this Npungo could
be divided into three stages.
Centellita: young and exuberant woman, full of riches and
adherence to her principles
Centella: Woman mother and warrior, defiant and without
fear of any warrior or battle, full of An ambition of learning
to be human

Centella Ndoki: The woman betrayed by her people, who

for love, rejoined the one she loves, making the sacrifice to
leave everything to follow him, and giving it all without
expect nothing.