WITCHCRAFT

CONTENTS

First part: life in rural area
PROLOGUE: BOYS TO MEN
CHAPTER ONE: SELLO'S VISIT
CHAPTER TWO: THE CHURCH
CHAPTER TREE: WHITCHCRAFT
AGAINST THE
TRADITIONAL COURT
CHAPTER FOUR: WHITE MAGIC
CHAPTER FIVE: BAKU-ALLER (PEOPLE ON
MOVE
PART ONE: THE TRUCK
PART TWO: THE TRAIN
PART TREE: THE BUS
second part: Life in town
CHAPTER SIX: MIND YOUR LANGUAGES
CHAPTER SEVEN: WITCHCRAFT AGAINST
THE MODERN COURT
CHAPTER EIGHT: WELCOME BACK HERO
CHAPTER NINE: NIGHT WALKER
CHAPTER TEN: THE ULTIMATE DISASTER.

PART ONE: LIFE IN RURAL AREA

NOT IMPORTANT: Other names to be used as surnames, places, ritual...:
Kaina, Sineo, Sombela, Riana, Regina, Rolanifa, Umkila, Umpendi, Malaika, Banta, Moto, Vero, Bote, Zulu, Viloma, Wasala, Wembo, Diyoka, Dineo, Mutoto

Germany's names (hotels, names): Klinsman, Bodosky, Suzan, Ludwig, Scharwyk, Ballak, Frank, Gelsen
PROLOGUE

BOYS TO MEN

In this part of the continent were tradition was still part of the life. All the boys before qualifying to be called man had to go to the mountain to be baptized and initiated to this transition.

Hundred of boys from the age of 14 to 17 years old from different villages each years register and goes to the mountain to be taught by the wise man in the territory.

It is the most important ceremony in the manhood stage of life.
Kalao joined by others boys were to be gone for the initiative ceremony their heard and waited for a very long time. They all had all sort of stories of boys qualifying to manhood.

Everybody was excited, and anxious to go to the mountain called Kizito. A far away mountain situated deep in the forest. A mountain situated at about 30 kilometers.

Each boy before starting the long journey had to carry a stick, a blanket and a small bag of food to give to the elders who will be their guardian for the next 6 weeks.

Walking in group, the boy sang traditional songs while following a group of 2 elders. Their families were proud of the boys who will qualify and be called men on their returned. A proud ceremony to all the communities.

The women were not allowed to that ceremony. The girls become women when they get married and it is their mother in law whom privately taught how to take care of the families and the coming children.

The boys following their elder to the mountain Kizito just 5 kilometers away from the mountain, stopped for about 2 hours waiting for a group of others boys from different villages to arrive and enter the secret place.

Then others groups of boys and elders arrived in the evening in the deep forest covered by many big trees, long bushes, endless sound of insect and animals. In the dark bush the walked all having one thing in mind to see the big mountain Kizito and pass the initiative ceremony and be qualified to be men in their community.

Hundred of boys now with 8 elders in total were about to enter the baptism mountain. The ceremony takes place in the short African winter in July of each year.

While walking they could see the big mountain from far and all wished to reach the mountain as son as possible. Keeping their body warm the boys kept singing all sort of traditional songs. In the windy and cold weather.

They arrived at the entrance of Kizito Mountain at around six in the evening. The 8 elder meet and talked about the procedure plan, then their left the boys and went in the mountain.

They cleaned the mountain from the evil spirit with their prays for about an hour. When it was dark, their returned to the boys groups and Wenge the elders who was already in is mid seventies talked to the group:
"You are the proud of your families and your communities. You are about to graduate from boys to men. You about to graduate from stupid to wise men. You are about to graduate from blind to man with four eyes."
Kalao was wondering what the elder who trying to say graduating from blind to man of four eyes.
The elders meant to be wise and knowing the secret of nature and life. It is the most important and the most demanded ceremony, the graduation from boys to men.

Then he instructed them to leave all the clothes, they heard in the entrance of the mountain. The elders took, the food parcels they boys brought.

Each one had to leave the clothes in the near by bush and they were allowed to carry only the blanked with them. They didn't mention food because most of the people in the far villages had no shoes. And no one in the group had shoes.

At the entrance of the mountain each one had to bath in the near by river, to enter with all his body in the water to be cleaned from all the bad spirits they may have with them.

The small river was just a small water source from Kizito Mountain. At the entrance of the ceremonial mountain were two boa snakes playing the guardian of the mountain. The two snakes were raised and maintain by the elders.

They were tie in a away they don't escape from their captivity. Each snake was in a small traditional cage made of trees at each side of the entrance door.

When the curious boys, entered the place it was nothing but an empty place in the mountain without anything. Especially no metallic object was allowed to enter. In the dark mountain, their sat for the first night not talking to no one for hours until late night they were told to sleep.

No mattress, nothing but trying to cover with the blanket they brought.
It was already a ceremony the silence they had to endure. It was the ability for a man to keep silence and not talk a lot. Talking a lot of big mouth according to the ceremony was too reserved to women only.
A man called Siza who was the youngest fit elders in his late thirties was in charge of the endurance training.
Then at around 4 in the mourning when it was very cold, the boys were wake up and they had to go outside and bath in the cold Running River and return in less than 5 minutes. An elder told them:

"A man must be able to be ready for anything in few second. A boy must be able to be awake when women and children sleep.
Siza taught them the ability not to sleep deep like dead"

A man must be able to sleep with one eyes open.
That is meaning able to hear everything going around even when he sleeps.

It was part of their tradition. A man must be able to wake anytime and in few minutes be ready to confront anything or even fight. They elder the second days started teaching the boy the ability to defend their family from any kind of fight, one the elder told man:

Street fight is the ability to defend your self, your family and your beloved wife. A man do not give up fight even if is tired. Even if he sees blood. A street fight does not last longer but the winner is the man who has the perseverance ability even if his down to stand and fight again. The winner is the one who do not give up.

The elders could cook for the boys mostly porridge and gave the boy. The quantity of the meal was so small that many of them weren't fool. This process was to endure the boys.
The first part of the ceremony was called the endurance process.
From the third day, it becomes worst. The elders could wake up the boys even tree times in the night and told them to go a bath in the cold water and get back to sleep.

They were told that a man must be ready anytime. Then the second week, they added other kind of ceremony called kill the fear instinct. What was strange is that no one was getting sick in these ceremonies.

During day�s time, they could make the boys run in the field. It was a technique to keep them fit and avoids any coming sickness from these inhuman practices. Sometime they could make them drink hot water to warm up their body.

The second week was concentrated on medical taught. A traditional doctor called Kalenga in his fifties was in charge of these teachings.
Another elder was specialized in the traditional medicine and the way to deal with disease. His name was Kalenga. Kalenda in day�s time was talking to them and teaching them the way to deal with diseases and the spiritual meaning of some diseases:

In the spiritual world. Mouth means the entrance of everything. Hear the ability to accept the others thought. Mouth, the ability to instruct. It by the tune of the month that you get respected or rejected. Eyes, the ability to see the past, present and future. Tongue, the ability taste all entering in your month, Face represents the mirror of the physical representation. Teeth, the decision maker. The implementing of decision come from the strength you show in your teeth.
The second week was left to the disease specialist to teach the young boy the ability to look after their family. In the second day of teaching the soft speaker Kalenga .

"Abdominal pain means body spiritual of processing foreigner object in the stomach. Accident, the inability to stand up for yourself. Abscess, the body refusal to realized unwanted thought. Itching is remorse. Ankle and pain is a feeling of guilt. Appetite and hunger is the ability to keep safe from warm and injury. Anemia is look for a pleasure. Fatigue is a calling to rest. Fainting is a forced rest."
The third day, Kalenga was opening the boy�s eyes with the traditional interpretation of the usual body disorders and the spiritual origin of the disorders: "Elbow, the organ helping us to move. Fever, is the body fight and resistance to unwanted thought. Cough is the body shouting to undesired thought. Gout is the body having enough to wait. Brain, is the master controller of the body. Heart is the center of feeling."
The fourth days, the old man had another session with the young boys but the boys were still curious to hear what the wise man is teaching them. The words and interpretation they had never had in their life: "Gray hair is the degree and number of stress, problems and circumstance a man had witness in life. Liver is the center of human emotion. Infection is a trouble. Itching is a rejection, anus is an exit. Vomiting is a rejection feeling. Lung is the acceptation place. Blood is life. Bleeding is escaping way. Spleen is place of continuation. Dizziness the requirement to rest the eyes. Skin is our protector from foreigner land. It is the borders of our body�"

Until, this point, the boys had no regret to undergo this formation. The most important transition from boys to men and the passport to life and marriage for those who were ready.

The third week was concentrated to the killing of fear. They believed that a man is the one who do not have fear. It was an important stage of the manhood.
The elder gave the boys the anti venom vaccine. They mixed the organs of different dangerous snakes� organs, and then they cut all the boys on their upper right arms and rub the mixture into their bodies.
Vuluma who was in fifties too a hunter by profession was the man in charge of this ceremony. He had many scars on his body. He was bitten and injured in his profession.

The elders then took the students at around tree in the morning and in the darkness, they make them walk in the deep forest. In the most feared land. In the land of dangerous animal were human were scared to be. It was at about 20 kilometers from Kizito Mountain. In the virgin forest.

They killed first a helpless giraffe they got on they way with the stones and seven boys were chosen to carry the dead animal in the lion's land.

They left the animal down in the field surrendered by straight long trees and one of the elder instructed the boys: "You will all learn to defend yourself and kill the king of the animal so you inherit his power. You have to know how to escape from a dangerous animal."
Kalao, one of the boys in the group kept wondering how they will defend against the king of the forest without any weapon only simply sticks and few stones?
The lion was the most fears animal by humans and all the animals in the forest. For his ferocity, power and speed in attacking his opponent. The only animal that even the big creature like elephants fear of. He was a true king. When he was around every animal were on the run even the hunters with their weapon were scared of. They often manage to kill him in group.
The elder told them: "When you meat the wild cat (leopard) or lion, the first thing is to confront him. If the king of the forest has to attack you he will row then you have to take a cover and the cover is to climb a tree. Not only any tree but straight trees around."
The boys wondered were the lion will come from when the one of the elder instruct them to climb in each man to climb in one tree each: "I want to climb in a tree. No tree has to be home to two people. Wait and see the king of the forest. He is coming now."
The boys took refuge in the trees around the dead giraffe and one elder instructed again: "When the king comes, make sure that you stone him and kill him, like we killed the giraffe. Then we haven't eaten meat for many days and we will eat him back to Kizito."
Kalao look at the long neck of the animal and praised God. He said to himself that God was genus in certain different animal and people with a different look. He said to himself God was Genus when creating this beautify animal. God was a good designer. He decided to design the animal with a long neck careful making him: Let me create this animal with a long neck.

The boys climbed in the straight trees waiting for the lion to arrive. It took some 2 hours when a hyena arrived to eat the dead giraffe. They boys climbed down to kill the lion when they heard an elder telling them: "I said, no hyena but we need a lion."
While trying to stop the boys from killing the hyena, the animal was already dead. And the elders were very furious with the group action.
They climbed back in their hiding. Then come the female lion. The well known best hunter. The lioness was a good hunter than the male lion because she is not that heavy and has the natural anger for hunting to feed her family while the male lion most of time spend the day fighting for survival to protect his female lioness from other lions, sleep and wait the lioness to hunt and grab the food.

The lioness before even touching the animal heard stones coming from different direction wounded, she escape. This made the elders angrier as one of them blamed him: "This is the worst tragedy; I haven't witness in the 12 years of my teaching career. We never miss our target. Let go back to our mountain and wash ourselves from the bad spirit and return tomorrow with the same procedure."
The disappointed group had to return in they group to Kizito mountain and clean themselves from bad spirit with elders prays and restart that ceremony.
The following days, they succeeded in their operation and returned with a dead lion.
While in the mountain before even cutting apart the dead lion. Using one knife, each student was forced to stab the dead animal 10 times in a small surface to leave others space for other to stub too. It was part of this killing fear ceremony.

They were forced to fry, share and eat a lion.
Eating the meat of the king of the forest was the last step to kill the fear. They didn't know the culture to eat the lions but they were forced in the manhood ceremony. Some tribes used to eat all sort of animals as meat. It was a unforgettable moment, in their tribe were they don't eat lion but in the mountain Kizito they were forced to eat the lion in ceremony to kill their fear and made this ceremony so special. All the people in the surrounding village knew about these practices, all the man graduated from this mountain. They boys had from far those secret ceremonies.

They fourth weeks were called the family teaching. It here, they teach the boys how to live with their future wives and children.
The elder responsible of the family teaching Ndombe taught the boys. He was married to 7 women and had many children. He was in middle sixteen: "What many people do not know is that a woman likes what hurt and look to be hurt emotionally. She want a man who is not a yes yes. She wants someone who says no too. She wants to be hurt from bed to emotion. She wants someone wild in bed. She will blame you for cheating when you show her little attention. She will look for something to hurt her emotion. It is her nature."

He told the boys that woman was created to love what is heart. From the bed and to giving birth. It why it was difficult to leave with the woman because she loves what it hurt and complain. He told them it why God makes the birth so special, something hurting.

For Kalao, this was something for new to him. He thought all his life that woman want to be happy everyday and want things to go always according to her way but the elder was teaching them something they haven't heard. Ndombe continued: "To love children is not to spoil children. To love children is to show them discipline, respect of everything and everybody. To love children is to teach them how to stick on your cultures, how to succeed in life without hurting nobody in process."

Ndomba finished is teaching by giving some advises to the future parent and chief of families some thing to teach their children: "Teach your children not to ask or take undeserved things. Never make asking a habit. The one who ask a lot will have a problem of giving. The one who ask and accept undeserved things will be a slave of materials and slave of others. Teach them never to complain in life but enjoy every little they have. Sometime poverty isn't only the insufficient materially but unhappiness."

The firth week, already the boys were glad that they were about to complete the boys to man initiation, the key to their future and respect in their community. The firth week teaching was called the witchcraft teachings.

The witchcraft man elder specialist Goma, a 68 old man stand with his gray eyes to teach what the people always hate to hear. They were all told by their families and communities to hate and burn the suspected witches.
Goma told the boys: "Witchcraft is a supernatural power possessed by persons in league with the devil or evil spirits to warm someone else."
Kalao, hated the witches this subject will only aggravate his hatred from the witchcraft: "The witchcraft has motivated by jealous. A jealous man or woman who is jealous is witchcraft. They jealousy is envy to regard with discomfort what other have. Jealousy, envy brings an internal anger, wrath, indignation, devotion, anxiety. This state of mind brings rivalry. Then this state of mind influences Satan, the devil, the slander to warm and do bad things. The witchcraft is the spiritual transformation of the envy to hurt the one who has advantage to you."
The boys were quiet listening to the definition of this phenomenon. They all agreed with the teacher Goma.

"Witchcraft" the old man said "is the desire to warm the one view successful. Witches send bad circumstances to other by making them ill, by bringing accident and take people's life before God's will."
Goma kept telling the boys, the in detail tin that week about this devil practices to the future family men: "Witchcraft, is the devil power, ability to do something bad. Witchcraft is the negative power, negative energy, the negative capacity to control and influence the nature. The force that brings unlucky, disease, accident, death�"

Goma explained how the world could have been without this phenomenon and urged the youngster to punish the suspected witches in the community: "The world could have been a paradise without the people who brings misfortune. The witches warm everybody. They use our pets and baboon to send the negative forces in our life. They use the ghosts."
Everybody knew about the ghost and was afraid of this creature difficult to touch. Goma felt obliged to define well the ghosts: "Ghost is the people who die before they time. If you were meant to die at 60 years old and die when you are 20 years old. The rest of 40 years you will spend on earth as a spirit."

Many didn't know their traditional ghost interpretation of the Ghost. It was something new for many boys. They were learning a lot in this mountain Kizito. Goma continued to add more: "The Tokoloshi phenomenon is the sort of ghost who transform in unusual short creature with legs, head and hand looking at the back of the body instead of looking forward as human been. They are collaborator of the witches."
Everybody was more scared of the small creators called Tokoloshi more than ghost. Many people said sometime in the dark or isolated places they meet those creature. Goma continued: "The witches take our DNA from things we touch or were to send in the evil world to send us back luck and unfortunate in life. They take our DNA and transform it. They deserve to be killed like we do in our villages. They are night cannibal, they transform us in the dark world in animal eat and eat us and we die prematurely."
Every accident, bad luck, misfortune, incurable disease, fail in projects, premature death were viewed as work of the jealous people called witchcraft. Goma thought them as to combat the witches now: "We can fight the witches but burning them. Killing all the human find in unusual places with unusual position like naked people walking when people dies. People throwing bad substances in our homes and way that brought curses. We can see the witchdoctors, they are people who can identify the bad people and help us with protection substances. The traditional doctors may help us to heal the incurable disease, the priests, the western religions, our traditional religion."

They boys went to many ceremonies: the body endurance, the interpretation of diseases and senses, the fears killer, the family teachings and the witchcraft.
The last week was also important ceremony week. It was a circumcision week, were all the boys were to be circumcise. It was a painful ceremony was their genital skins were cut without any pain killer.
The first day of circumcision, as usually, the boy was waked up at 4 in the morning.
Four o' clock in the morning had a big significance in their culture. It is this time even in the village that the mother checks their boys private part to check if they were impotent. It is at this hour that they believe the man private part erupt without any difficulties.
But this time it was a different story. They were expecting to go to bath in the near by river but they saw two beautiful women.
Everybody was called outside one by one. The two women in their early 20�s come to help the elder in this ceremony. They were testing the boy�s impotence. Before the boys got in the river, the were instructed to open their blanket covering them, then the two women could touch the boys private part and see if it may erect. The two women were naked too. After hours of testing all the boys, the two women side lined two boys who believed to be impotent and didn't qualify for the circumcision ceremony.

The two boys were taken to the traditional doctors at the nearest village at about 7 kilometers for the healing process.

The 8 elders were circumcising the boys one by one because they were avoiding big casualty. In the past the boys were quick circumcised by different elders and this practice was widely criticized because many were dying high number of death. Some were dying from lost of many blood, improper treatment and infections.
To avoid more death, they all started circumcising the boys one by one. All taking care of one patient at the time. Carefully cutting the skin, then rubbing the traditional medicine and covering with wild bush.

After this painful ceremony, they made a party were all the boys attended. They sang with drums and traditional instrument for two days before they leave the mountain Kizito.
Then outside the mountain they were all allowed to take their clothes back hiding in the bush by.

Wenge, the oldest elder who was in his seventies made the last meeting before to free the boys: "You are no more boys but you are men now. Man to look after your families and community. You have graduated from boys to men. You are the proud of your families and community. We taught you how to be strong and wise. We have opened your eyes and you are no more blinder. Go and encourage your youngest and family member to keep respecting our culture. Don't forget the Bantu and African philosophy: love and respect of everybody. In Africa there is no stranger but we are all members of the extended family."

In the traditional Africa they were no foreigners. Everybody was member of a big and extended family. To love everybody and everything was the foundation of that culture. It why the Elders Wenge remembered them not to forget after this ceremony.

They boys when they returned were welcomed too by their communities. They make some parties in the recognition of this graduation: Boys to men.

CHAPTER ONE: SELLO 'S VISIT

Kalao returned to his village welcomed by the community and his family. They made a big feast for the boy who has graduated to manhood. He gain the freedom of life and was respected as a man in Kisangu.

Kisangu village was situated in a deep Congolese Forest. Making very difficult to colonists and civilized people to access. It takes many days to reach this part of the World. You have to take train, car and walk for many miles if you do not have a bicycle. Many people there didn�t have even an opportunity to visit town. It was just another world apart.
Two months after Kalao graduation, come a lost man in the community. His uncle Sello who left the village for town Leonville to work in the mine.
Sello was very fit physically. As a young boy he learn to hunt the animal and to fish with they boat. He went in town long ago but was still fit with the physical job he was doing in the mining company in town. He was short of height wearing a shirt packed with his muscle ready to tear apart.
With a clean haircut he entered the village Kisangu while the playing children were watching him. He was different to all the people of the village. He was wearing differently in a land were people do not care about labels clothes. On top of that he was wearing shoes. The villagers were not wearing shoes.
They preferred to walk without shoes in the stones and their bushes. They feet were used to those challenges. Their feet were very hard that they were not feeling pain.
The only time they had pain on their feet it when the mouse (rat) in their Thatcher house bite them. The mouse was so clever and liked to eat the human bottom feet. The mouse had a very strange method when biting people. It used to bite sleeping people and blow when the people could feel the pain. It used to make people a nice feeling in their sleep. Feeling a small pain mixed by a blow.
It was difficult to realize that the mouse was biting them; they only find out in the mourning that a top skin of their feet was eaten by the mouse. It then they can feel some pain on their feet.

Sello left the village many years ago for town but on his return to his village Kisangu he didn't see any change. The only change was that the village was big. The houses were still the same. The two rooms Thatcher houses with the small kitchen house at the back of each house. The kitchen house was always dark of colour because the villagers used to cook with the dry trees collected in the bushes. When the women cook in the afternoon the all village his full of smoke.

No one recognized him; the children had no idea of this man walking with a red bag on his shoulder. He was a stranger, as he was walking he started seeing big people greeting him. They were in their twenties and could recognize him. He knew were his parents and sister Fonfon houses were situated because it was next to each other next to an old a modern boat.
That boat belonged to one of the colonist who ventured in the river, get lost in that community. It was a small boat the owner was lost and didn't know how to get back to the big river Congo because of the many fall and rocks. When coming with the small boat, he meets more than 10 falls.

The region had many rivers and the biggest one was Mukamba taking the water in the river Congo. Congo was a long river of about 2 500 kilometers taking the water in the Ocean Atlantic. The owner of the boat was called Raymond. He lived in this village for two months only and died from Malaria more than fifty year ago.
The adventure colonist was flowing with the virgin water were a boat never been before. He enjoyed jumping 30 meters to 80 meters falls. He broke many ribs when he ends up in Kisangu from the river Mukamba.

He was cured by the villagers and when he recover and was about to find his way back, he got Malaria and died in Kisangu.
They named even their biggest street in Kisangu in his remembrance (memory), Raymond street.

The boat was parked next to Sello's parent�s house where birds and chicken put their eggs there. They were also many snakes in that boat.
Kalao have lost the village touch. He was not able to walk in the stones and even on the soul without shoes. The fact of wearing the shoes with socks made his feet very soft comparing to babies in the far villages.

Most of the people loved to build their village next to the rivers. Along the river Mukamba was many villages.
Then in the dry land was many mountains include the popular initiative mountain Kizito many miles away.
Some of the mountain were volcano and warm the small running water around. It where many villagers used to bath. The water were mixed with few warm larvae(latent) soil.

Sello had left the village long time ago to work in town in the mine 20 years ago. He left two after graduating from the mount Kizito. He killed his fear accompanied by his friend, he went in to town without having any family in the colonies land, towns.

He received a letter from his nephew Kalao, who was one of the few people to have studied 4 grades in the neighbouring village Kumato. The nephew told him how his father was very sick and how they fail with the traditional medicine to heal him. And how they fail from the under equipped hospital in Kumato managed by priests to heal him.

Sello was forced to return and fetch is sick father Tata in the village and try to bring him to town to get the best treatment. He brought with him some clothes. Clothes were luxury, they were not using money in the area, and they were exchanging things.
Some urban businessmen and business woman were bringing articles from town especially old clothes, salt, sugar, rarely bicycles that was really a fortune. They haven�t even heard a radio neither television in that village�The nearest school was situated 20 km away in Kumato.

Kumato had catholic priests they were responsible for the hospital and school. It had also a under equipped and ineffective police station with about 3 policemen. People relied in this region to the traditional law and administration. It had about 30 000 people while Kisangu had about 10 000.
Many churches from town especially African Christian churches have few followers in all the villagers around, more than 20 village citizen meet that Tuesday in Kumato.
Most importantly Kumato had the market. The markets were people exchange things used to take place only Tuesday. All the villagers around used to meet In Kumato Tuesday for the exchange with businessmen from the civilized towns.
The villagers didn't care to be clean the entire week; they were trying to be clean Tuesday for the market and Sunday for church. They bath everyday and wore clean clothes but Tuesday and Sunday they were wearing they best clothes.
Only big people were studying and very few young. You will find in a first classroom some 20 years old people mix with 8 years old people. The school was run by Catholic priests.
In Kisangu they were only one man who could read and hardly write he was the genus of the community. Every body were coming with letters and rare magazine to give to Kalao and few people who went to school to Kumato.
Because of the respect they gave him. He didn�t wants to admit that he didn�t know everything. Kalao attended the priest school and completed the high level classroom 4 before going to the mount Kizito for the initiative Boys to Men. When he couldn�t understand some words and stories in the magazine he used to invent some stories.

No one could even disagree sometime contradicting himself, he was always right. They have been many rumors in the community about the cities and their technology that local people were calling white magic. White magic because brought by Colonists who were whites from Europe. Everything that they don�t understand the mechanism was called magic. The where very much linked to magic.

They called their traditional medicine black magic because made by themselves whom were Africans. And the new technology was called white magic because it was imported from Europe.

The priests living 20 km away and many African pastors who were from town were like gods, they were chief giving advisors and also resolving conflict in all the nearest villages, of course using the Bible preaching tolerance, love, forgiveness, no vengeance�The one who doesn�t follow the commandment will not go to heaven after his death. They also preached some kind of evangelism that the poor and good man will go to paradise and rich man and bad men will go in hell. The evangelism kept many people very happy because many people were not rich or either poor.
They were just happy; they didn't need the modern technology or modern life. They loved what they had and were happy with it. They were not exposed to the modern need. The only modern things they needed were clothes and sometime bicycles.
They were not sleeping angry because they were all farmers. They used to eat the products of their farmers and used to exchange to clothes too. The problem with the food in this region is that it was unbalanced. For example when it season to collect maize in that area, all the people eat maize. Then next season they don't eat maize they start eating cassava. Cassava and maize were the main food in that region.

They didn't have any special meal like breakfast, dinner or lunch. They eat the same food according to the season and anytime of the days. They used to share food too.
When an hunter kill an animals such us an antelope or when the neighbour kills his domestic animal such us a goat, ship he gives to his neighbours some meats and the chief of the village used to get his part too include the relatives.
In their culture they don't eat alone, they have to call even passing people on street to share food.
They used to respect the elder. Any elder was able to send any kid he sees on the street. They used to greet each other even the unknown people they see on street. They greet each other each time they see each other. And the famous greeting was, Moyo.
Moyo in all those villagers had much significance: hello, sorry when someone is heart or tired for example with carrying his farming product. It means also congratulation.
They had plenty of food but it was difficult to transport it to town because of the poor roads and transport facilities. The businessmen from town were not able to take all the foods in towns were people needed food.
In the past five years because of the demand of the Ivories internationally the businessmen introduced the modern hunting guns and bullets to kills elephants. Some people in towns were coming to this region to hunt too the elephants. They were many elephants in this region. The elephants used to walk in the farms and each time the pass or walk in a farm they destroy many plants. So the villagers too wanted to get ride of some of the elephants.
The hunters kills the animals, sell them to businessmen and the businessmen sells them to towns and from town it was sold to the capital of their land Kinshasa and from there sold to foreigners businessmen and them too they were selling into different part of the world. It was just a long chain of business. From the bush to overseas.

Each time the hunter kills the elephants they were going into the villages and beg for people to go and take the free meats. The villagers used to eat the elephants while the hunters were only interested in Ivories leaving the all animals in the bush.
Elephants meat become even unwanted, the villagers eat them every time they wanted. They preferred most their domestics� animals and the antipopes.

But the villagers were strict with the witchcraft problems, they used to solve it themselves in their traditional court were there is no appeal and charge the witches on the scene and punish them.
People suspected that the priests were having dozen of same clothes giving impression that they don�t have enough clothes. But it wasn't that true. The priests were all European and they were five in Kumato.

People used to criticize them that they were having also many pairs of same design and same color of sandals especially people from others churches. They had all bicycles that they were sharing with others villagers too. Especially villagers who were working for them in the church and their activities.

They were solving many conflicts in the area many of the conflict were related on land issue, family murder, witchcraft. They didn�t believe that diseases and death were normal but blamed and always suspect old peoples, women of being the cause by witch crafting. They used to beat up even kill and burn for example wife whom looses the husband or child.

The priest and many African pastors from the African Christian churches with their evangelism had changed some practices and customs. They were also helping people with modern medicine such us pain killers, antibiotics�Most of the people after the fail by traditional medicine, the last rescue was to contact the Priest. The rate of death any way in Kisangu was very low they experience death may be after 5years.

The priest also were teachers in the local schools�They were also running a charity organization not forgetting the church service. They were also very busy traveling in the surroundings villages to assist the people in need. Many pastors were not able to teach because many of them knew only how to read and write.

Let come back to the expenses of some goods, they businessmen were exchanging 300 grams salt to about 5kg of maize meal, used pants or old pant to about 50kg of maize or cassava. They didn�t care about labels no one knew labels. A bicycle was changed to half a full truck depending of the bicycle at about 12 000 kg of maize and a hunting gun to about 15 000 kg.
The other product the businessmen were interesting in was the peanut. The price of peanut in exchanging was much expensive. 6 kg of peanuts was about 1 kg of peanut in value. A farmer who had lot peanuts was able to exchange it to many things compare to the one who had maize.

The other products the businessmen were interested too was the smoked meat they used to sell to towns. Because they were no electricity or fridge in the rural area the villager used to smoke they meat and keep it. The smoke neat could last for many months. They only thing the villagers used to do is to warm it again with the fire after many weeks. It could last even for a year.

The used to cut their fish mix to salt and put on the sun. And it was lasting longer too like meat. It why salt was very important, an ingredient in food and also help them to conserve their fishes. Those fish were wanted also in big towns. Fish was the most eaten than meat in the towns. It was very cheap and people like it a lot.

The businessman were able to transports their product only from Kumato because it had a unpaved road to the train station. It was easy to transport the product in the short winter because the road was dry. But it was sometime impossible to drive in the middle of summer because of the big and strong rain making the road impracticable.

Coincidently most of those businessman had others wives in the village and other one in town. Those who were not polygamous were also preacher. They are the one who expanded the religion in Kumato and the surrounding villages such us Kisangu.

The biggest street in Kisangu called Raymond Street was very long about 8 kilometers and many villagers built they main house along side that street.
After about two kilometers, Sello met an ex friend of his. He looks at about 60 years old while he was in his forties. And Sello who was in his forties look at about thirties to his friend Lumbi. Lumbi was married and had many wives and children while Sello was newly married.

Lumbi was able to assign two boys to help transport and accompany Sello to his parent house.
Sello arrived at around five in the evening accompanied by two local boys who helped him to carry his two bags. Many people of the big family come to see him.

The women rushed to cook a special meal to welcome him after many years. The men went to sit with him under the local big trees in the middle of the village. This is one of the big days for villagers:

Fonfon his sister was full of joy when he saw his brothers coming. Fonfon was the mother of Kalao. She couldn't hide emotion and shown tears of joy in hugging his brother Sello.
She took his bag and put in one of the room. Slowly people started coming to see the man who left the village long time ago. "Sello how are you."

Sello could hide is joy of returning home after many years: "I am fine especially back in my original village after a long time. This really my big blessing for me. This moment is just to big for me�"

While the man from town was speaking everybody were watching him what he was gathering outside the house. Kalao shyly entered the house and was watching the only man who wore shoes often. Kalao recalled all the events in the passed when he saw an African wearing shoes. It was priests were he used to study many years ago. The businessmen from town were not bringing a lot of shoes in this area because people were not interested in shoes. But Sello's sister Fonfon told the man from town: "We are happy hearing you talking about these words�But we were very angry that you didn't come for your mother's funeral�"

Not attending your parent funeral was inexcusable but Sello tried to defend why he was absent at this memorable ceremony:
"I am very sorry for not coming."

First he got the news 2 months later when Kaloa who was watching him Kalao wrote. The later has to pass by priests and with very long journey to reach him. The priests who travel often to town were very busy when they come to town didn't easily got Sello address to search for me�

The area had no postal office, trusted traveler people were playing the post office. The businessmen were not helping much the villagers but the priests were a reliable post office. They help the community for free and try the best to deliver letter when they are in town and back home they used they bicycle to deliver letters from the village surrounding Kumato and in Kumato too.

He sat on the peace of tree in the small two rooms� house. In this area they were not doing the traditional chairs. They used to cut the big trees and used those peaces as chairs.

Sello's sister reminded the importance of sticking to their tradition: "We understand that to get our news in town is very difficult. I pray that you stick always to our culture is the most important thing to do in life."

"I always stick to my culture there is nothing bigger more than our culture."

Forgetting culture is like living as a dead walking man. There is a lot influences in towns. A lot of people with different cultures interact. Sello acknowledge the difficulties to raise his children in town with many influence.
Everybody was expecting him to have dozen of children and many wives as a curious villager asked: - How many children and wives, do you have?
"I have 2 children now and one wife."
This was a shock to many villagers to learn that the man who left the village some twenty years old had only two children and one wife: "You are poor. You have few children�"

Sello young sister Kapinga that he left was only 2 years old now she has 5 children and she was pregnant too. She makes children every year since she was fourteen years old and she also has twins. For the villager Kapinga is richer than Sello. Some of her children will be doctors, some engineers; some will be robbers or serials killers�
The man tried to explain in short the modern life: "You know life have changed a lot."

Especially in town they don't want to have many children life is expensive now. In future even in the rural area things will change stated Sello. They have to provide children with every thing include a well deserved education.
"You have to get married to a second or third wife to have more children." the villager advised the man from town "Even cheap vegetable children will eat and grow, even half peace of clothes their will wear, even on simple sponges they will sleep and grow taller�"
Sello had the experience even in town, people were always complaining how life has been expensive and very demanding but the children were growing. In fact people realized that they have grew when they children growing up.

Shock as they heard a man from town defending himself. Some of the villagers couldn't believe as many lighted their traditional cigarette to come down their shock: "More wives you have. The more problem you have."

Sello work every day, sometime in the weekend too. He has a 12 hours shift every day some time when the mine is very busy he work 16 hours.
For them Sello was finding an inappropriate excuse to escape the blame: - That is not a reason to avoid making a big family.

The villager work hard too. They go to their farms 4 o'clock in the morning and return late in the evening but they have big families and they are rich with the farm products and children.

"Life is not about competition or comparison but does what is best for you." the man from town said "You are happy with your big families and me I am happy with my small family�"

Fonfon warned his brother: "You will die poor my brother if you don't change your attitude."
"I respect your opinion and for once respect mine too. I am happy about your concern, my way of seeing thing are very different."

They gave him his favorite food in less than 10 minutes of his arrival in the village. He used to love when he was a growing up in Kisangu Cassava and springbok meat. Fonfon already whispered to the neighbour that menu. With others women they makes a big fire and made a food for him.
When he finished, the women warmed water and using an outside room Sello had a bath. Many villagers bath in the rivers but for sick people they had small bath place at the back of the room.
Those bathroom and toilet were made of hole for toilet and a small space to bath. They were covered by a lot of palms trees leaves.

Because many people were coming to see him, he decided after having bath to seat outside his sister house to talk to many visitors.
The man from town was not ready to learn something new as a curious in that group of twenty men asked him about a different subject:
"Tell us more about life in town." A villager said
"Life is town is quiet different."

Some time Sello regret for leaving the rural area. Life in town is very fast, every body is hunting money. Some works, some want money and dream of working to get money but they don't find jobs. Some goes with the short cut: stealing and others illegal activities�He told his the group of men that if the man who does not have money in town is nothing. The villagers were happy people because you don't know really money but in future you will know.
He heard another question: "We heard that people are hungry in town."
"Yes and No the same time."

Yes, because when someone don't have money to buy food it difficult to ask to his neighbor food in the villages they ask any body food and the will give them. The villagers had plenty of food here but to send them in town it quiet difficult because of the poor state of our roads. Many of things you throw here are eatable in town. There are many part of the cow you throw but we in town eat almost everything: the blood of cow, the soft ox to the skin the cow, intestines. In town they eat chickens legs and heads that villagers always throw in their villages. Poor people buy those things that they throw in the villages.

Many couldn't understand why many struggling people do not want to return to the villages: "Why you don't you return to villages when life is tuff�"
"No way."

Many people will not afford to live the rural life anymore; they prefer to struggle in town than living the rural area life. The have a new nature. Habit is a second nature.
"How long will you to stay with us?"
"Two weeks" the man from town said "I have to return to my work."

In town they say that work is parent. That is mean in town work is a father and a mother. Parent are giving children every things foods, cloths�The same with work it give them money to afford their need. Sello was one of the lucky one in town to have a descent job. Many people really envy him.
He comes also to fetch his father. He knows the traditional medicine cannot help him anymore. The hospital next door in Kumato cannot help effectively. Tata needed specialist for his disease. He was decided to send his father Tata to the hospital were he can have a much better medicine and treatment. Tata alone cannot each the town because it was difficult to get there. No one could take care of Tata effectively after the death of his mother Connie Vuka. The other villager seems to get fed up of him. Tata will return soon after the treatment at his own will.
One of the villager backed Sello: "That is excellent because we were sure that your father may join ancestors soon (die)."

For them Sello's father was still young at 60 years old but is very sick, they called and consulted all the famous traditional doctors but they fail. They went many times to see the priests in their small hospital but they also fail. "I am sure with the medicine in town we may come up with a life time solution."

Sello was happy to return and sleep in a Thatcher house. All the souvenirs returned. He remembered this village and all his activities going to hunting and fishing. He remembered how he used to accompanied (follow) his parent: Tata his father and Connie Vuka his mother to the farms.
He had an idea to fetch his nephew Kalao too. He loved her sister Fonfon and wanted to give him opportunity to prosper and wanted Kalao to help him in his project in opening a business in town.

The villagers didn't have anytime fixed time to eat. When he wakes up after taking bath people who didn't see him wanted to meet him. He was expecting to many hundred of villager who will come to great him. The villagers were greeting the newcomer.
Just when he wake up at around seven people were waiting for him outside. He decided to spend most of his time outside his room. He was not able to get ride of the shoes even for one second. His feet have become so soft that when he try to walk for a short space without shoes feel like his legs were nailed.

After the short discussion, they were called by the women who were cooking to eat. In the villages men were not allow to cook but women were cooking for their family and their visitors.

It was a good welcome back, this time they cooked the dog meat. Dog was the most prestigious food in Kisangu. Funny enough in their tradition dog were not allowed to be eaten by woman. The dog was cooked with many the local spice. Women were cooking it without even testing it. It was a Saturday when he arrived. The eating man continues their discussion. In they culture they don't eat alone. So he was served with his visitor sitting under a big tree enjoying the sound of the bird and wild animal passing near by watching in the river Mukamba, small crocodiles passing by and hippopotamus playing in the rocky villages: "Sello, tell us how many time do you eat dog in town?"
"I haven't eaten a dog for all the years I lived in town."

Sello has become a number one fan of chicken but many people in town do not afford to eat chicken every day, they eat a lot fish because is more affordable but they make sure to save money to eat chicken in the feast such us new year or Christmas.
Dog were not allowed to be eaten there. If they catch someone eating dog in town, he is appearing the next day morning in all the newspaper in town. It is a big scandal to eat dog.

Many people hearing the omission of eating dog in town as a crime against the tradition: "I will never personally live in town. That is good for young people."

Many people in a group of the about 10 visitors prefer to live in village were they can eat their traditional food and live a natural life. It is a big crime not to allow men to eat dog in Kisangu.
One villager said: "Dogs are delicious it why the male ancestors were clever enough not to allow women to taste that meat."

Sello find strange enough the women were the one who cooks meat but couldn't even taste even the dog's soup. He has been living in town Leonville were they promote the women right. Sello at least agreed to one thing: "Even me I will make sure in my late stage to come and live in village."

He was planning to save money to come and implant a modern farm with the newest equipment. Then to will implant a school and hospital in Kisangu. He was motivated by a man who lived in town called Kakoke who build a school, farm, hospital in his home villagers far away. Sello was very touched to see young men walking far to go to school and hospital. Even his nephew Kalao studied far to learn how to read and write. Some classrooms here still under the trees or old buses sponsored by the government. The classes were always disturbed when the rain comes.
The villagers were happy to hear that: "It will be a blessing if really you provide us with those facilities."

Many villagers didn't have the chance to go to school but they wanted the future generation to have access to the modern World. It was painful for villagers that they have to see few people who read like Kalao every time to read and write some of our correspondences, some of them were strictly confidential.
They loved to ask Kalao for assistance because he used to keep secret while many people were spreading their correspondences secret.

Then Sello decided to take even his nephew Kalao to help him in town for his business project: "I will take Kalao too."

Sello knew with Kalao courage he may help me in town and he will enjoy the life in town. Sello decided to take him too together with Tata his father because the trip is too challenging. Alone they will meet many difficulties on his way to town.
Villagers were not pleased: "But Kalao is the one who help us to read and write. So you are taking every body away from us!"
"I understand" the man from town said "Kalao did only four classes his young brother Jika who is here is now have to study and replace Kalao."

Many young in the village are now busy: some going to farms, some going to fishing, some goes to hunt and many are studying that is mean they won't have many problems for your correspondences�
"We still trust a lot Kalao than everyone else."
"It the same. You will have to trust others young"

Sello was sure that it will eventually take time for this group to find a trusted boy for their correspondences. Kalao works hard and he didn't have time to do other things. He needs someone to take care of other occupations. He want to open others activities beside his job. He has to open others activities. His job is very dangerous. He was lucky to be alive today many people are dying underground.

The villagers have no notion of the miners going underground: "Are you serious?"
"Really, I am serious" Sello said "We are going under the ground every day."

They meet a lot accident there. The last time they were lacked under the ground for many hours.
He told the villager what is was like to be underground: "Can you imagine with the hot temperature under the ground"
Another elder wanted to get Kalao a wife before he leaves the village because he graduated from boys to men ceremony: "But he had to get married before he joins you."
"It will be too soon for him to get married." Sello said "I know is twenty years old but I may get him a wife in town."
This statement has reopened the woman subject again:

The villager had a bad impression for the women. They heard that women in town love money too much. They were scared that Kalao may end up loving someone who really don't love him back but love his money more than him. They knew that the women in town lost the African culture too. So they wanted a woman who will keep their tradition value for the children.

"I understand" Sello said "It is true but there are also many women who may love you for what you are rather than money."

Sello was there to guide the young man and promised not allow him to fell in love with a non perfect woman. He promised that if he try and fall to find a good woman in town, he will advise the villager to send him a wife.

The conservative men insisted on the woman of the same tribe: "But she must be from our tribe."
"Not necessary."

Sello was married from a woman from another tribe and was very happy.
People from Kisangu, Kumato and hundred of villages around were all from one tribe called Kambelembele and the name of their dialect too was Kambelembele too. They share the same dialects, the ancestors, same culture, same main tribe chief and same land covering about 10 000 kilometers square. They all have the same gods and all does the ritual at the mount Kizito and in the passing river Mukamba despites having Small River too.
The man from town insisted: "There are also a lot women from our tribe too in town."
A villager confronted him: "I know that it difficult to understand us but if Kalao may end up marrying a woman from our tribe it will be easy to rise the children according to our custom, how do you raise your children with two different cultures and languages?"

Sello explained: "It is not that much difficult, all the African cultures are the same, really the same."

They are all based on Ubuntu: sharing (love of each other) and respect of everybody and everything. They all have a common big difference is that in town the children are talking the local language in town: Swahili, Inswa and French the language that the colonist left.
The villager asked "Tell us your wife is from which tribes?"
"She is a Potolama."

Scandal Potolama were feared of being cannibals. They remember they traditional fight with this tribe from the North. The fight happens centuries ago but it was related to the generation through out songs and stories.
The African who had no scripture to keep their stories kept them in the songs and the stories. They were able to relate their children what major stories happened years ago. The government sent many historians in the villagers to try to write those stories in the books. But those stories collected were just too few.
Everybody was in shock. Sello has married their ancestors� enemies and they were accused of eating the human been: "But man Potolama used to eat human?"
"No, that custom is over. They are no more cannibals do not eat human any more."

Kalao visited his wife's village more than 5 times because it was near the town and they have it was easy to get access there because they was a good road left by the colonist. The reason the colonist build a road that side it was because it was rich in coal. And coal was an energetic mineral needed in most of the industry in the past century.
He told the villager: "I went to their village many times. I didn't see any human's pot. Those cultures are finished."
"This is a shock of our life, how all started?"

Sello confessed: "I met her and fell in love, the culture are not important now. We are happily married. Everybody is Christians now" Sello then asked "but a way do you still go to church?"

Some in the group were church goers too but they were not that dedicated.
They were many congregations most of them taking place under big trees with about 30 to 50 followers each. They were more than 10 different churches in Kisangu taking place under big trees. Most of them were African congregation, expended by the businessmen. But many people were believing in their ancestors. About 90% of people in this region.
There was also a catholic church but the priests rarely come but they send some of their usher to come and do the service in many villages. The priests were very busy with only 5 priest covering hundred of villagers. It is why Sunday and Tuesday was important days for many villagers to wear they best clothes. Sunday for the church and Tuesday for the exchange market.

But Sello was a church goer and very dedicated Christian. He was not drinking heavily like most of his mines colleagues. They drink because of the stress and fear of their challenging job and the second reason is that their salary was good enough to allow them to afford to buy drink.

He was not visiting the night club and never smokes while working with many smokers.
The Christians miners pray every time before going underground. While others were doing their ancestors ceremony for protection. Sello prays because every time he goes underground into the mine and at his house. He always thank God too when he finish the days after coming out from the underground and thank God to protect him and allow him to see again his family.
The only thing he wasn't sure with his colleagues when they start their day is to be able to return alive home and to see they loved one. Even with they protection they were not sure how the day will end. Some of the people who die were believers too.

The money was good but the price and the risk was so high. Sometime they feel like if they were paid to die. The mining company used to compensate the miner's family who dies or even disabled by the mine accidents. They felt most of the time that they were waiting for they days to succumb by major accidents. Even the most experienced engineer dies in the mine.
But the government had a priority in mining than farming. They used to make sure that the get the latest technology to diminish the accident. The mines give the government a lot of money and all the eyes of the politicians were on the natural resources.
Every year the numbers of the accident were diminishing with the new technology and new upgraded system.

CHAPTER TWO : CHURCH

The next day it was Sunday, Sello a catholic follower by blood get ready for church. But he was attending too the African independent churches where he got his wife. Many of old people went to accompany him to the church. They have been neglecting the churches living the church to women and children only. But this Sunday it was a different story many old people poured in the church under a big tree.

The usual gathering number that day was almost doubled because of many visitors who accompanied Sello.
They walked about two kilometer to reach a place where they pray every Sunday. Thanks that the rain was not that day. They were no church service when there is rain.
The first think Sello saw was the usher bicycle parked against a tree near by. The loan was well cut while people were seating. The usher has traveled 20 kilometers from Kumato to do the service to Kisangu.
He was in his fifties, wearing a white dress like a priest.

They chose a quiet place and a big tree to start praying. They were many cut big trees used as chairs unused and this group had a chance to seat too.
The usher preached that days on Genesis chapter one, two and tree. Talking about the beginning of the World and the sin that Adam and Eve committed.
Many men who accompanied Sello were already sleeping while the usher was preaching. This shown the level of their uninterested in the gospel.
They were waiting for the church service to end as soon as possible. Because they had no watches they were watching the sun position. In the villages they used the sun as watch.
The sun was so hot likely the tree was big enough to protect them.

When the church service finished, the usher noticed that Sello wasn't from this area because he wearing shoes and was wearing a clean shirt and black well iron trouser. People in this area were not interested to Iron well they clothes. They used a brick put on top of a fire with clothes they handle it well and Iron their clothes when they want too.

Despite this method of ironing clothes the businessmen brought the iron using the coal or peace of wood. They open it and put the hot traditional coal from hot trees to iron they clothes. But very few people were interested in these practices.

The usher real name Omani who never been in town too was curious to ask him many questions. He pleased to learn that Sello come to visit his family after 20 years.

Sello had a chance to talk to some of the people he met long time ago while returning from the church. He also had a chance to chart to the usher sent by the priests to conduct the church service in their village. Every body was very happy, on the way home Sello accompanied by more than 15 adults started a new topic of discussion:

They complained that every time they go to church every time they return confused and worried. They claimed that church was good their children and wife for them it clash with their tradition.
They heard about names they don't know. One of the men asked his friend while returning from the church. "The same with me, I don't understand and I don't know were is situated Israel?"
Sello let them exchanging view on what they don't understand:
For some:
- Israel is up there in the sky or in heaven.

For others
- Israel is part of paradise where Moses and other angels live.

For this some they understood that Israel was:
- This all lie, Israel is an old earth where God created people then people left Israel to come in our World.

Then they asked a man who could be able to explain well: "Sello, what do you thing about our discussion, you may be one of the person who can clarify the matter."
Everybody thought that because Sello was from town knew everything: "You know, It also very difficult for me to explain"

They have just raised an important subject. Sello too never think a lot about Israel, he know Israel is in the Bible, there is another Israel that the also talk about in the news were there is always fighting Palestinian and Jewish without end. He doubt that is the same Israel, there is a country existing by the name of Israel on our planet earth.
He decided to tell them: "Israel is a country on this planet earth."
Many villagers doubt of the answer. They were convinced that Israel do not exist on this earth. They were sure that it exists in another planet. They doubt that God could interact with human they way they had him interacting with human like: Moses, King David, King Salomon...

Some believed according to their understanding God had created Adam and Eve and put them in Israel and from there people entered different part of the world!
"That is meant the entire story they teach from the Bible happen on this planet earth?" Asked one man.
Sello confidently answered: "That is correct according my understanding�"
Many where not sure that Israel is situated on this planet earth:

For some people were wrong and completely wrong. Israel do not exist in our World it was an ancient World, were God put their ancestors. For him Israel is called in their tradition Minofa. According to their tradition Minofa was the first village that existed in this planet earth where everybody come from.
In their song their praised Minofa, the first village where everybody lived. It was the first village on earth. It believed to be situated in the far north of earth.
This time the man from town asked the villager: "What about the Garden of Eden?"

For some The Eden garden do exist even to day but we do not see eat because we are sinner, the no sinner may see it like small children. When they cry they talk to the angel of Garden of Eden.

For some the Garden of Eden is the paradise. If they die today, they may have a chance to go to the Garden of Eden.
Another villager intervenes: "That is false my friends. It is why I don't want to go to church. Every time I hear what the teaching in church I become always sad and more confused."

The villager where sure that garden's of Eden is very different to paradise it why they have different names. Many didn't believe that Israel exist on this planet. He wondered Sello said they are fighting in Israel how come a land that God may have used to create people end up in fighting today? But for some Israel and Garden of Eden where the same thing according to their understanding.
One comes up with his understanding: "May be there are two Israel: the one in the Bible and the one in Asia next to Europe. And the holy one mentioned in the holy book the Bible."

A villager cited: "Those theories are good for our children and wife."
"No" said Sello "My friend it very important for everybody, the eternal life belong to everybody."
The thing that was noticeable to all the villager is that the accent of Sello has changed. Even thought he was still speaking perfectly they dialect but the accent was very different. Everybody understood why. With all the mixture in town of many African dialects and French, it affected is pronunciation.
Another elder called Timothy Puto in the community who was quiet confessed. Timothy was a name given to all the drunker. He was in his fifties but look at seventy even thought he was still strong physically: "I am sorry, I know that I will go to hell because I cannot leave alcohol."

Timothy Puto tried many time to give up without any success. If God can forgive him for beer he will definitely be in heaven. He heard that in paradise there is no beers so He prefers to go in hell and get drank everyday.

Just when he finished to give his point of view he open a small bag that he was carrying and started drinking while walking. He loved their traditional alcohol (enriched) fermented from maize and cassava. People didn't care because they knew that he is a drunker, they continued charting like if he doesn't exist: "You are a lair." said another villager.

Timothy Puto was called a good liar. He was well known in the community of lying each times he open his month. Even when he wasn't drank. He look at drank every time. Even when he hasn't touched the traditional alcohol. The only man in our group who lies every minute he talks. In facts in all his talking more than 50 % are always lie.
He defended himself: "Man, don't take it personally. Only God may judge me not a sinner like you. I will go to heaven because I go to church every Sunday but you go to church once two years."

It was true that Timothy Puto goes to church every Sunday. His reason of going to the catholic church was to test the holy wine used for the service. He loved that test of that red wine. He didn't know how to get hold of that imported wine.

People were laughing at him while they were approaching Sello's sister house where Sello lived. Sello the civilized man said:
"Church is heart not an house"
Timothy Puto the drunker find a suitable excuse: "Anyway I don't have really to give up beer because Jesus made wine that people drunk and were all drank."
Timothy Puto knew only tree Biblical verses in his heard. He was repeating those verses each time he wants to defend himself. This time he didn't want to talk about those verses because people knew already. They were Psalms 104:15 where was mention that wine for him beer makes the heart rejoice. The second one was John 2:9 where Jesus transformed the water in wine (beer). And the last one that he loved the most. And was the motivation to be called Timothy was first 1Timothy 5:23, where apostle Paul was advising someone not to drink any more water any longer, but use a little wine for the sake of your stomach and your frequent cases of sickness.

Many usher and the rare priest who comes knew him. They always give him the left out wine. Some time the priest used to surprise him with bottle of wine. He was a very dedicated Christian to the eyes of the clergy even thought the community called him a good liar. He was one of the few men who attend the church service every Sunday even when he was drunk.

Sello explained: "Beer is not bad but become a sin when is too much even any food when you eat too much it become a big sin."

For many every time we go to church they always come back with discussion even fights. This day they won't fight today because they have a visitor by the name of Sello.
The used to have a different view and interpretation of the Bible. They didn't know how to read so they may read the book properly. But they were interpreting according to what they hear. The few verses they hear.
Sello advised them: "You don't have to fight even if I am not around."

It was not a good example to fight, they were adult. They supposed to be a good example to their wives and children. Not only to their families but to their nephews, nieces, uncles, aunts, neighbours�

Sello was right because he read in their behaviour that they always fought after the church service because of their differences.
They arrived at Fonfon's house. Sello sister, they sit on the peace of big trees outside the small house. The women already cooked food. Before they even sit women where bringing food for everybody. The villagers never complain that the quantity of food is small or they are many people. They never refuse to give food to anybody even a stranger. They share what they have. They call refusing to give a neighbour food as refusing with shit. For them food was only shit, no matter how good it smell. No matter how good it looks or decorated. The bottom line is that the food will enter the body by the mouth and end up in toilet.
While Sello was eating with the villagers. They always eat with hands, eating with end bring them closer to their ancestors spirit. They wash their hands before they touch any food.
Eating with they hands draw them closer to ancestors and they divinity. Even Africans in big town were still aware of those practices and eat with their hands.
A villager asked him a question: "Sello God created the humans, animals, plants�everything that exist in the World but who created God?"

After swallowing what he had in month. Sello pour some water and drink then told him: "God is always God."

It was the usual question for all the villager. They called God Leza. Leza was the same God of the Bible and ancestors Gods. In the traditional religion, they contacts God by the dead or ancestors spirit. And in the Bible by Jesus Christ.
But they keep wondering who created the one who created Leza and then the one who created the Leza creature and the one who created the last one�and the one who created the creator of creator of God( Leza)�the list it just endless.

The man who asked insisted: "It is the only question I have to ask if I have the answer I will never wonder�"
Sello advised him: "My brother you have to stop thinking that way, you will get mad and crazy my friend. We have to accept the words in Bible like children without asking many questions."
Another man attacked the one who asked that question: "Don't you know, he already mad."

This villager has asked many times this question. All the villager were not interested to get anymore an answer to that question. This man asked to all the ushers and the priest who come Sunday.
Another man surnamed too Timothy Bianda has arrived and joined the eating men. Timothy was a surnamed given by the villager to all the people who drink a lot. The name has become very popular in the region, even in Kumato the biggest village around all the drunker where surnamed Timothy after the popular excuse of Puto. He asked too this question: "What a difference between the God of the Bible and our God of ancestors, Sello?"
"There is no difference." Sello said "The God of the Bible is the same God with our God of ancestors. The difference is that we reach him passing through ancestors and in Bible the used the angels, Maria�to reach him."

Timothy Bianda continued with another question: "Where is God living. I mean where is house?"
"God is every where."
"No, Sello God lives behind skies."
According to they tradition Leza or God lived in the sought of ancestors. Only ancestors or dead men could see him or even talk to him not a human's been. That African culture Leza the big God was only in contacts with ancestors was different with Christianity where they say that even the alive human can get in contact with him. They can pray ditectly to God while in the tradition they have to pass through the ancestors.
The villager believed that Leza (God) is too far it why human were suffering because God is far and may not see them. They suspected that he is too old now because he has been living for thousand and thousand of year is little bit blind now. They couldn't imagine that a man get older and hardly lives for hundreds years. But Leza has been alive for all this years. They believed too in the end of times. For the villager in their tribe God will die one day. And when he will die the earth will be dark for ever.
In their tradition it is dark when God rest or sleep at night. During the days when he sleeps it becomes little bit dark and the rain fall. When he totally sleep it when their experience darkness.
They noticed that in the past they were very little suffering because God was young and could see humans and the earth properly.
Sello knew this tradition and answered: "This is crazy my friend. God is not a human to get old and tired. Only human old and get tired�"
Another man in group had is impression: "I don't support your idea."

The villager believed that God had emotion like human, he get also tired. They were convinced that God had a human's feels too because when their cry in their prays with tears most of the time he answers to their prays. The popular memory in Kisangu is when the rain was not falling for about 4 months in a region where the hot winter was shorter than a month.
The villagers under their village chief Kifwebe cried and prays to God. Then the rain comes like never before. It was raining for weeks without non stop. And they farms were flooded and they lost most of their product. They believed that God heard their prays and decided to send more rain.
For many also believed that when God sleep it when they have accidents and ugly children are born. When God wake up in the morning he creates beautiful people.
Timothy Bianda noticed that when his wives give birth in the morning those children are beautiful but once they gave birth in the mid night, those one are ugly. He accepts that when Leza is tired his wives give birth to an ugly child.
Everybody in that group laughed while Bianda insisted: "Men, I had to deny that he was my child because he was so ugly but deep inside me I knew that God was tired, he is a human too. He works very hard and get tired."
The man from town tried to comfort him: "That is coincidence. For God every body are unique there is no ugly or beautiful human to God's eyes."
Another man intervenes angrily: "But if I could meet Adam�I will blame him for eating that fruit. Just because of a simple fruit we are suffering today!"

Bianda had another idea to whom to blame for the human suffering and misery: "Yes, I could blame first the woman Eve. Why did she accept to talk to a stranger, snake? See now the stranger lied to her and today we are suffering because of her sin."

They villagers learn to angrily kill the snake because they learn that if the snake didn't lie to Eve we couldn't suffer. Now people are dying, fighting, and experience pain because of snake. The snake was popular in the rural area. They meet snake every where. They had the traditional vaccine against the snake. Most of the villagers had one. They had snake under their traditional bed made from the branch of tree. They had mattress with cotton inside because they had few cotton that they collect in the bushes. In the village where there is no cotton they saw they mattress with herb or plant leaves inside.
Timothy Bianda wasn't done yet. He believed that the visitor from town knows every thing. Sello was viewed as a genus in his community: "Which fruit do Adam and Eve ate?"
Before Sello answer Timothy Puto answered: "It is probably apple because it taste nice."

Bianda felt bad. The apple tree was introduced in this area only 10 years ago. It becomes popular because it tasted differently. It was also growing with difficulties in their region. They had few of them and the apple was exchanged to many clothes and good in the marker place in Kumato. It was a special fruit.
The first drunker to call himself Timothy Puto insisted: "Look now because of an apple we are suffering."
Another man had his own understanding: "Sex."
Sello refused to accept that theory but have heard some people saying that it was because of sex that Adam and Eve where punished by God. As a man who used to go to the Catholic Church before switching to another church noticed that the priest avoided the book of Genesis and Revelation. One priest told him that the authenticity of those two book were very questionable. Not suitable to the reality. But with all those villagers who had a different understand to go further in explaining those realities, will bring more confusion and an unfinished discussion.
He heard in another church the preacher saying that the first sin wasn't eating a simple fruit it was sexual relation that make them suffering. The preacher in that congregation has said that the writer of the Bible had the truth. Because eating a simple fruit wasn't a big deal for human to suffer. That fruit was sex, when God found Adam and Eve in act of sex he punished them.
The Sello the civilized man intervene: "Who said?"
"People"
"It not true because it is not written in the Bible." Sello said "We have to stick to the Bible only. The Bible said they eat a fruit."
"But simple the Fruit is too vague and imprecisely."
For many it was just impossible to be punished and die just for eating a simple fruit. For some they were convinced that it was a sexual relation of Adam and Eve that brought pain and misery on earth.
"We have to translate the Bible too." Said another villager.
Most of them didn�t know how to read or how to write but heard the Biblical; stories from people who attends the churches services.
Sello warn them: "The Bible said you don't have to add or retrench anything� Let leave this discussion we will never have a common solution or a common point of you. We will end up committing more sins that we have already committed. Let respect each others opinions."

They villagers that thought with Sello we may come up with a solution to their worries.
"I am also a human like you." Sello reminded them "I learn everyday, I tried to contribute with my input that you seems not ready to accept."
It was not because he was the only man wearing shoes in the group or wears differently that means he has changed. He can't walk without shoes anymore. Not wearing shoes for the villager brought them close to the ancestors or eating with they hands bring them close to they ancestor. Sello never forget his tradition even in town many Africans were still eating all kind of food with they hands it brings them close to they ancestors.
They understood and accepted to change subjects:

They had questions before they close the subject. This wasn't concerning religion. It about Sello's work, they heard Sello insisting that he works in the mining sector.
Timothy Bianda and Timothy Puto were used by the communities as drunker. They villagers called them drunker for life. The beer wasn't doing any wrong in their body. They become vaccine by the alcohol. Even when they drink a lot or do not drink anything they look the same.
Some called the Timothy the drunker for life too; sometime they appear drunk even without taking any alcohol.
Timothy Bianda asked Sello: "Tell us what your work is, what are you doing in the mine?"
"We deal with the extraction of minerals such us Cobalt, Zinc, Iron, Copper, few Diamond, Gold..."

The only minerals they knew were diamond and gold. They had no idea of the other stones. In their tradition they used to dig too the gold and some few diamond for the decoration. But the quantity of those precious minerals was very few in that land. Not good enough for the government to start extracting it.
Timothy Puto asked him: "So where you are sending those minerals?"
"We send it in developed countries where they make cars, bicycles�" Sello taught them "Diamond and Gold are used to make jewelries for wearing and others use."
"Tell us how do look like the others minerals beside the one that we know diamonds and gold?"
"They are some kind of stones. They look like stones that we find under ground or some time in the mountains"
"That is mean we have minerals too here." a villager concluded

The miners explained to the ignorant villagers: "We have minerals all over the World but they only look at the place were they can get a big quantity to exploit"
"Sello how do the transform those minerals to make cars?"

This was the most interesting question for many. They always kept wondering how they make cars. Strange enough some of them heard about car but haven't seen the car yet: "They burn it at the highest temperature to come up with new products except diamond that they only cut to make a good form for jewelries."
Then the man who was drinking comes with back with his album photos. It then started showing them is families, friends, another things in the Album photo. For many villagers it was the first time to see an albums photo. Very few people own a photo. They used to be photograph by the businessmen from town who used to return after about two month with the developed picture. It was a luxury to own a photograph. It cost about 25 kilogram of maize for one picture.
But Sello come with a camera to take few picture not for sell but for his Album to show to her wife and children how his village look like.
"If we take our stones in the mountains burn it we may come up with some kind of metals?" He was showing them a picture in the mine. Sello wearing the yellow overall with a lamp or light on his mining hat. The villager could understand with ease with the photograph supporting his explanation.

Just when they were about to end the discussion another man intervenes: "I accept that God is old now and partially blind now it is why we have many crimes today"
Before he finished talking everybody got angry and started leaving the place. Complaining of the return of the religious subject.

CHAPTER TREE : WITCHCRAFT AGAINST THE TRADITIONAL COURT

The Africans witchcraft works more or less like the Deoxyribo Nucleic Acid known as DNA. The witches have the ability to take the DNA from blood, semen and other body�s tissues. They get it often from part of body such us nails, hairs, clothes...of the person to be witched. Each person got is unique pattern of chemical within the DNA molecule and are unique. The DNA has the all information of a living person. It has all the information of is past, present and future.
For those people witched to be eaten in the dark word like DNA, they make a duplicate, a double, or look like copy of the person in the
dark world. They are able to duplicate all the human's tissues, membrane, atoms, nucleus, components, cellules, chromosomes, genes, molecule...brief all the essential human's properties and substance chemical in a different world. And once the person his killed in the dark world he dies physically too. Often by a short illnesses, unexplainable illness, accidents...and sometime without any warning the person can just die in the physical world.
The nails, hairs, peace of clothes...of a person to be witched has all the genetic information and all the human's life information. They provides all the humans' message, information, destiny...For example human's life development sequence ABCDEF...
A may means the birth of the person.
B may means that a person at the age of 5 will start hunting in the bush.
C may show them that at the age of 12, he will also start fishing.
D a parson at the age of 15 may get married.
E a person at the age of 24 will have tree children.
F at the age of thirty he will be a village dignitary.
If they get old of the human's DNA at the age of is life sequence B, when he is 5.
They will be able may be to remove E from that sequence. May be the ability of the person to have children at the age of 24.
They may be able to remove F and that person will not have the opportunity to be elected a dignitary at the age of 30.
If they want they can even cause any kind of accident that will make for example the witched man handicapped or paralyzed for example in the sequence age of D and E. Between the age of 15 to 24.
Or may be they would love to kill him at the sequence C. when the person has to start fishing at the age of 12. So the rest of the sequence DEF won't take place.

The same days evening there was a judgment of people suspected to be witch. They took the opportunity to judge them Sunday because no one is going to the farm. The people find guilty could be beaten up or burn alive at the end of the judgments. Most of the people find guilty were old women and old men. Other was even young women and children. Every bad luck or disease in the family had a cause. The do not accept the death of young people without a natural cause.
The judgments take place in the local traditional court. The biggest room in the village. It is here all the village dignitaries and even chief Kifwebe and curious people meet. Strange in the traditional court there is no appeal but they have witness. They accept verbal proof. It is the most challenging court that exists in the village.
They burn the bad people just outside the big wall.
The young people especially the one who has just graduated from the ceremony boys to men where in charge of punishing the witches. They have learnt the consequences of witchcraft.
They were still motivated and passionate to punish the bad people in the community. Kalao was anxious too, he has graduated from the mountain hated the witches with all his heart.
The biggest room in the village was well designed and builds to accommodate up to 200 hundred people. It was they important wall. They didn't want to be disturbed under the trees when it was raining.

The first case was the case of a woman who accused her mother in law who lived with them in the house of being a witch. The mother was chased by her son and then after two months the son got sick. Scared of loosing the husband the wife went to accuse the mother in law to the village court. Saying that she want to kill her husband. The tribunal was composed of 20 old men, dignitaries called the wise men seating in front of the wall while the others were seating on the peaces of trees.
The dignitaries seat on the well decorated by the best traditional artists. Many were drawn with animal�s faces on them. The popular animals were: elephant, lions, giraffe, springbok and cheetah. And the bird such as the eagle.
The rarely design on the dignitaries or their chairs animal like chicken, mouse, goats, ship or cows on their chairs. Those animals weren't that respected in the community.
In fact all the domestics� animals weren't designed on the chairs. The only animal living in the community and designed on their chairs were cobra. They were not domestic�s animals but time to time they enter the villager�s rooms and were all over their far and nearest bush.
The animals that weren�t loved also in the same case with cobra were mousse (rat). They were not domestics animals but lived in their houses. Hiding under the bed, on their thatches...The mouse was one of the hated animals. It used to eat them feet while sleeping. With his techniques it was difficult to realize that something was bitten them. He bites with slight moves of the sleeping men or after a certain period it gently blows the wound. The mouse in this region rarely eats the clothes but liked the human's feet. Sometime eat a small quantity of left out food.

In that they refused to any meeting to take place. The Catholic Church and others churches approached them to use it before the traditional judgment in the evening but the village dignitaries refused they offer. It was strictly a traditional court room or dignitary meeting.
The popular definition of witches was bad people or criminal. The physic witches were robbers, killers... They used to cut the hand of robbers so they may not steal again. The robbers were not hungry people who take food. Because eating food wasn't a crime. But people taking what is important from his neghbour. The people who rape were in the robber�s category. People who kill were also in that category of robbers too, they take life away.
The second categories of witches were the dark one. The one who causes the misfortunes, accident, kills people in causing diseases...Those find guilty in the first degree were burned outside the court.
The dark witches were the most fears in the community. They didn't know them well.
Kifwebe the village chief was always busy and was not attending all the court session. He had a group of trusted judges called wise men. They were all older, more than 50 years and heard a good reputation in the community.
Different judges were handling the cases with the help of others. Then the witness and other people were in the wall able to help them to make decision.
Kisangu had about 10 000 peoples but only few were allowed to regularly attend the judgments.
The judge who was ending this case started by asking the woman who accused is Mother in law: "You accuse your Mother in law for being a witch why not accuse your own mother too of being a witch. What prove you that your mother is better than your husband's mother?"

The woman complained that because since her mother in law arrived in their house her children and started getting sick and when her husband chased her away from our house, he fell also very sick.
"May be is your own mother who doing those tricks?" The judge said.
"I know better my own mother she is not a witch."
"What prove you that your mother is better than your mother in law?" The judge asked
"She is a good mother since I was a kid."
"What the husband said regarding his own mother?"

He admits too that his mother must be a witch because he also had bad dreams.

Dreams were also very important in those cases. The judges sometime ask for what people dreams before or after an accidents or disease or a death. They were experienced too to be able to interpret the dreams.
They knew that people spend one third of they life sleeping.
They knew the danger of preventing peoples from dreaming can makes people disturb or ill. They knew that dreams have to do with the emotion, fears, longings, wishes needs and memories where the ancestors talk to people. Dreams had to make all the human�s wishes possible.
The people who had no cars, no radio,�were not dreaming of those fancies things like people living in big towns. They don�t dream of the modern building unless if they were told of those things but it was rare. What they dreamed about were things they sees and touches like the jungle, the huts, the animals, the rivers�
The dreams were a way of making all our wishes that they express in prays to be true. The dreams were expressions of unfulfilled wishes.
The villagers have no problem with sleeps; in fact they sleep early as seven or eight in the evening. Just when it dark except if there is moon so they takes advantage of light to hunt or do few of they remaining task of the day.
In the land where there is no electricity, no entertainment they used to sleep early except if there is a special traditional ritual or ceremony.

Most of the cases where solved in minutes except witchcraft cases. They had many cases to come. The judge gave the sentence just after those words:
"No, you persuaded your husband to chase her mother so you may have control of the house."

This was a small case, they all knew the women, for choosing their husband weakness probably in bed when he wants to make love to her and disturb him with a stupid problem. In that period of making love many men accept what the women told them. It why in their traditional culture they don't allow women and their men to chat in the bed. They blamed specially the husband for chasing her own mother from his house. He has to pay 2 cows to her mother and ask for forgiveness. The women who accused her mother in law was sentenced to 10 slashes every morning for a period of one week. The judge told the husband: "Your woman is a bad wife. You supposed to accuse also her mother for being a witch too. You all have bad dreams because you mind is suspecting your mother in law of being witch."
The dreams were very important to villagers because they believed they were message and the ancestor�s talks through dreams.
Then the judge turn to the mother accused of being a witch: "Mama, why you didn't inform the community that your own son is chasing you from his house?"

She didn't want to make more troubles. They have been fighting a lot with her daughter in law, the woman she chosen to be her son's wife.
For Sello who was happy to return to the traditional court room wasn't strange to the fight between the mother in laws and the daughter in law. It used to happen even in town. In they tradition they always says, "Where they are women there is always fights"
The judge asked the mother who is being accused of being a witch: "Tell me mother why the children have been sick while you were in the house?"

The women accused of being a witch responded to the man of traditional law: "You know better that the children always get sick when there are small; I even went to my son's house to help of the children."
"Why now that you have left the house your son is very sick?"
"Judge" the accused said "if I was a witch why not to kill my son when he was young instead of raise up?"

Another judge confronted her: "May be that time you were not witch yet."
"If I am witch now that mean I may kill him even now."

She was upset the way her own son chased her like a dog in front of her grand children and the woman she chose to be her daughter in law. This must be the punishment of ancestors to her son who forget the pain she had of caring him in my body for 9 months. She insisted: "Leza (God) will punish my son of that sin."
"We understand mother" the judge begged her "please forgive your son is always your blood."

They young women and their mother in law fight a lot. It was common in their villages and the newly married people listen more to the bad advises given by their wives instead of taking family's good advises based on their culture.

In their tradition when an elder is unhappy and worry something bad will happen. They knew that if the matter keeps worrying his son will not get better, the ancestors will take him. Dying was called ancestors call. In their culture children has to bury their parent not parents bury the children. If it happens that child dies before the parent, they must be something wrong and witches have done their job of prematurely killing people.
Then the judge looks the husband and said: "You are stupid to be called a man; you make all the men in the World shame. Next time you have to go and wear the women clothes instead of wearing man clothes."

Another judge insulted the husband: "Adam."

The churches and the gospel were entering the rural area and the villagers started knowing the story of the Bible mixing to their traditional. Adam was a big insult in this village.
He insulted him as a typical Adam who let his wife Eve lie to him. They have many cases and they didn't want to hear his voice. They told him that he will die for suspecting the one who carried him in her stomach for 9 months as a witch. They told him go and apologize to her and if possible chase punishes her stranger wife in.
The verdict wasn't finished. Another judge gave him a punishment. "You have two week to marry a second wife."
They were punishing the woman in telling the man to get two wives because once he has two wives the attention of the men will split among two women.
They were not allowing divorces in their culture. They were not also polygamous like most of the African culture. It only dignitaries and the chief who were allowed to be polygamous. Only few villager were voluntary polygamous. It wasn't a must for them to have many wives.

After the verdict another judge chased the man: "Get out of our eyes we don't want to see you."
The villager was leaving the wall while the crowd was booing (howl, yell) a him: "U U U."
It was a shame to be booed in public for anyone. While the man accompanied by the disgraced wife and her mother were living the room, enter in the traditional hall the civilized men. Sello, the court shook as the man tried to sit at the back. The only thing different he had to villager was the black shoes he was wearing. he made sure before he goes to the court to wipe it nicely. He wasn't able to walk without shoes on his feet. They gave him a special sit next to the dignitary. He was the only man wearing shoes and a watches in the hall. While the villager relied on the position of the sun according season.
The sun was changing the position in different season. In middle of summer mid day the sun was straight on top of the trees. But at the end of the summer it was little bit a head. And in the short winter it has a different position.

Sisse was appointed as the judge of the next case. A family accusing the neighbor of giving witchcraft to their son. The have been two death in that family. Those dead were all children, this case was the most awaited case by the public. The child was only eight years old when they find out. The judge called first the eight years old named Kadogo: "Kadogo, they said that you are witch it is true?"
"No, I am not a witch."
"Tell us the true, we won't burn you. You still too young and we know that is someone else who gave you that magic stuff."

Young people were pardoned once they were convicted once but severely punished once they were convict for the second time. Once he accused as a witch for the third time they had no choice but to burn him. But it was rare to be accused as a witch for the third time. But there was no mercy for grow up people. An accused as a witch mean to have caused an incident that have killed someone.
"It is the mother of Pomlazi real name Kisthiwa who always come and fetch me every at night." Kadogo said
Pomlazi is the neighbor friend to this old year kid. She was a girl while Kadogo was a boy. Pomlazi is also 8 years old. Kitswiwa is accused of being the witch.
It is a fight of two families: Kadogo's family and Pomlazi family. They often describe those two families in fight by those names of the children involved sometime. Kagodo family: Mom Kadogo the mother of Kadogo, the father of Kadogo real name Walabo and Pomlazi family: Mom Pomlazi the mother and father Pomlazi.
In this village they describe sometime parents by the name of their popular children or the children who brought trouble.

This was the main awaited trail of the day. Kalao and his group of other youngster were waiting to punish the guilty one. The judge asked the young boy: "Tell us the mother of Pomlazi comes every night to fetch you while you sleep?"
"Yes every time she comes and tell me to go and play the beautiful game."
"Tell us how all things started?"

It started one day the mother of Pomlazi, Kitshiwa called Kadogo and gave him some food. It was Pap made of cassava with vegetable when he ate, the vegetable changed into meat. Kadogo asked Pomlazi mom why the vegetable changed into meat she said she changed the plate. She insisted that Kadogo didn't see but she kept telling the young man that she changed the plate.
Eating meat was a sign that the young boy got the witchcraft. It was popularly known in the villages that eating a food that changed in meat was sign of witchcraft.
The villagers used to tell their children not to eat to neighbours or other family members without their parent�s presence in this area where it was prohibited to throw food. Any waste was condemned in the village. They make sure to give even the left out food to human. If is not good or get rotten they give to their domestics animals.
Sisse asked the boy immediately: "Tell us where your parents were and were you alone?"
"Yes" the boy confessed "I was alone when I was eating. My parents went to farm."
"Where was your friend Pomlazi?"
"She was playing outside."
"Pomlazi's mother gave you the food alone?"
"Yes sir."
"Continue what happened next?" the judge asked

Then when Kadogo went to sleep he saw Pomlazi mother calling him and said to him "let go". He asked her, "where?" She told him come and you will see some good wonders and miracles. Then we took the broom and fly in a very nice city. They received them with joy, people were dancing and singing.
The young man insisted: "We played�then she started coming every days to fetch me. We are eating human meat every day."
The public get upset; in fact it is how witches operate. This was a sign to many villagers that the young kid was witch.
The judge wanted to get at the bottom of the story and asked: "So how happen you sister and young brother passed away?"
"The witches wanted me to repay the meat I eat."

The young boy claimed that the mother of Pomlazi, Kitshiwa and other people who are their chiefs in the dark World sitting on human body�s ox chairs said that he had to pay back the meat she gave him. They asked him first his father.
He tried to offer his my father; he failed because he has a huge fire on him that they don't penetrate. Then Kadogo beg her not to give his mother because she is taking care of the family. Then they said he had to give first his brother and his sister then parent after.

It was the usual story they hear about witchcraft. They gave meat to the newcomer. That meat they eat in the physical world is a human's meat. Then once you eaten that meant, you get access to the dark world. That human's meat is the key to the dark world.
Then once you start attending the dark world in a form of real dreams. They will ask you to repay the meat you have eaten for the first time. And you will only offer the person that you are bloodily related: brothers, sister or parents.
They enjoy the ceremony in the dark world.
Sisse the judge wanted to know more. While Sello was interested to hear again of the witchcraft stories. It been a while he participates in the traditional court: "Tell us how did you kill your brother and sister?"
"I took their belonging."

The witches offer human in giving their belonging in the dark world such us some peace of clothes and the hairs and the nails what today the scientist call DNA. The take anything belonging to the man to be given in the dark world. Something he has touched and offers to their chiefs at night.
Kadogo said that then they transforms it in his brother and his sister. Then they put them in the custody. Then they fell sick in the really life. When they time come to kill them they die may one by sickness or the other by accident then in the night we dance and sing we made good parties there.

The public asked for the immediate burn of Pomlazi's mother. It look like they were happy burning those so called witch. But the judges of the day ignore the public call: "What happen when people die?"
Kadogo answered: "I get promotion in that World of the witch."
"Is your friend Pomlazi in that World too?"
"No" Kadogo said "he is in our meat next list; we may eat him for Christmas."

Shock as he reveal their plan. This was not good news for the woman called simply Pomlazi's mother. The only people who were not eatable by the witches were the witch only.
"Why you denied first of being witch?" The judge said.
"It is a secret they gave us something in that World to keep secret, it is a secret."
"Why you are telling us your secret?"
"Because my father has a big fire."

Fire means spiritual power. The humans who have a big fire burn the witches and they don't approach them. Those fire mainly from prays and meditation. It believed they more you pray, the more you are covered by the fire. The more you spend time with praying either Jesus or the ancestors and lives by the traditional rules create a fire that protects people.

The young boy keep saying about big fire, then the judge got curious of that so called fire: "Tell us about the fire, we don't know."

The young man explained: "When you pray a lot like my father have protection, you have a big fire that we don't penetrate, it burn us every time. I suffer in our house because of the fire of my father, when he prays it burn me a lot."
Fire means protection, fire may be protection by the ancestors or by the angels for Christians.

Sisse the judge of this trial was angered because Kadogo offered them his sister. When his sister died he also gave his brother. They understood that Kadogo owned them when he paid back the mother of Pomlazi her meat she gave him.
The young man responded: "It tastes very nice the human meat."
People in the crowd were very angry to hear that statement. It is true that all the witches often declare that the human meat taste nice. It why the call also the witches, the night cannibals because they enjoy the human's meat.
Sisse, the judge asked him another question: "Tell us in your special World do you all eat one man per night?"
"Yes it magical, one human can feed all of us."

The witches declare that a human�s meat can feed many people because it multiplied.
"How many are you in that World?"
"Plenty."

Another judge wanted to help his colleague. He had a question to ask the young boy called Kadogo:
"Tell us do you know some of the people who are in that World who are here."
"Yes, many also are from others villages."
"Can you name some of your friends in the witch World who are here with us."
The young man started naming: "Your friends Pamo who is also a judge is one of them"

Pamo was one of the judge and dignitary present in the court.
Every body in the tribunal went in front caught Pamo and started beating up but some people intervene to stop the beating. Some people in the group were angry:

How a witch can be one of their judge? They wanted to kill him and burn him alive. It how strange the traditional court was. They take action immediately without waiting explanations. They had no appeals or long investigation. The community mob by their own judgment.
One of the judges said: "Please come down Pamo is not part of our twenty man tribunal no more, he will be judged next week."

Pamo who was already bleeding after angry people assaulted him. He was replaced immediately by the decisions of other 10 judges or wise people. They decided to appoint on the scene a man from town with his experience to help and solve their problem. Sello who come as a visitor was appointed on the scene as a judge despite the fact he was not fifty years old. The main condition was to have fifty years old and have a good reputation in the community. Sello was in his forties and have lived for half of years in town were they had not heard of his moral record in town.

Sello become an exception to their rule and the people in that wall agreed with the judges decision. We are replacing him immediately by Sello who lives in town. What they know is that Sello had a very good reputation before he leaves them for town where is working.

Bad news for Pamo who was respected for many years in the community. Unlucky he had to face too a judgment the following week. The court was there is no scientific proofs only verbal proofs. They understand Pamo was to be judged the following week because time was running out and there was no electricity to light in that big traditional hall.
The angry public disagreed with the judge of the day:

They wanted him to be judged too the same day. Most of the judgments of ordinaries judgments took only minutes but the witchcraft judgments were long and ending up sometime at midnight. And they were the most interesting judgments to villagers. When it was dark in the wall they used the paraffin�s or oil lamps. With the popularization of lamps and paraffin brought by the businessmen in the market place Kumato, the dignitaries made sure to buy a large quantity of paraffin for about twenty lamps used in the court.
The crowd thought that the judges of the days wanted to protect their colleagues Pamo.
The judge insisted: "We don't have enough time now."

They have to judge the mother of Pomlazi to day and some witness before they make the final decision. In the traditional court they don't give criminals enough time to make up lies and escape the punishment. It why they act immediately and make that they correct decision. The judges of the days were wise with plenty of experiences in life and take always a collective decision in agreement with the crowd.

Sisse, the judge knows that witchcraft is very challenging cases because they are often a lot lies include many hidden things that they don't tell. They job was to make a good decision not to punish innocents.
After this perturbation, the judges managed to reinforce order in their court.
They was no pity for witches because they believed that witches are night cannibal or dark cannibal who eat people in the dark words and in real life the man eaten die. They believed too the witches� doctors take the negative words that people talk and made them reality. For example if a parent insult his child that he will die poor, or will die or will never succeed or will get sick.
Then they continued: "Well done who else is part of your World that you know."
"My Uncle Sozo" Kadogo said "The mother of Pomlazi, Mama Sipho, Kitenge the wine makers, the wife of pastors: Mama pastor Pasi"
The kid cited some 14 peoples the most interesting are Uncle Sozo. Kadogo had a courage to reveal his own uncle as a witch too. That was amazing to all the community member.
The wife of the pastor Pasi who was a dedicated Christian in one of the African church. They believed that many beautiful and light in skin women and men were part of the dark world. The wife of the African church pastor was all of that. Very beautiful with natural long hairs and light in skin. She had some red eyes because she was very similar to an albinos.
Of course Mama Pomlazi because it believed that she is the one who gave him the magic stuff.

Then the wine and beer maker Kitenge. He was very popular with the taste of his one. The Timothy or the drunker as they are called in they region loved his traditional beer. Sometime his product used to finish in less than 10 minutes. Now everybody believed that he was may be using the blood of people from the dark world to sell to ordinary people.

Bad news for the local wine maker and the wife of the only independent church beside Catholic Church into the village called Mama pastor. But the judge concentrate on the case of the day asking Kadogo's father:

The judges were determined to finish first with Kadogo case and see the other named the following week.
The Judge decide to call the father of Kadogo first: "Father, you have a very co operative child�Since we have been judging the witches we haven't met a sincere witch like your child�Tell us how did you find out that your child is witch?"
"I started having bad dreams"

"Bad dreams are not enough because dreams most of the time are your daily thinking or suspicious feelings"
"I didn't finish my theories." Kadogo's father said.
"Sorry for interrupting you." the judge said.
"Not only my dreams"

In his pray especially when he lost two of my seven children.
Every prays believe to boost the fire in bodies. It doesn't matter if you are Christian, Muslim or Traditional prayers. All the prays brings fire in body to protect against the witches.
Kadogo father noticed one day when he went to wake up Kadogo around 4 h00 in the morning to go to the toilet to urinate, It took them some 30 minutes to wake him up. Then the following days the same scene keeps repeating. Kadogo child take long to wake up. When he wakes up it like he has been in another World. Then they notice strange behaviour in Kadogo: stealing meat in the pots, lying, unusual courage in him, hypocrisy. He called him one day, after questioning him and punishments the child told them the truth.

Those are the sign of witches. There are hypocrite, they eat you at night and cry endlessly during your funeral. They were known of having a special courage. They were known of being people of double faces: hot and cold.

"You know that the children lied to avoid the pain of punishment?" The judge said.

It one of the reasons the witchcraft judgment was very challenging. The wise men had to find out if the teller was lying or if his telling the truth. It one of the reason all the wise men were quiet old to handle this challenging case.
It happens too people call all their enemies witches, so it needed sufficient proof to distinguish the lies and the truth.
Kadogo's father, real name Walabo confessed: "I know it, we took a very slow and soft punishment. I went with him to our night prayers to our pastor; with the help of the pastor he told us the truth?"
"Did you hit him?"
"I slapped him" the father said "after he told us the truth that he behind the death of his brother and sister."

Most of the witches have difficulties to admit they doings. It believed that in the dark world they gave them special substances to be able to hide their secret. Some even torture they deny being witches. Sometime people who easily admit to be witches are not witches. It only wise people who knew to distinguish those cases.
But Kadogo have related what is known being done in the dark world. They had no doubt that the young boy was lying.

Sisse, the judge continued: "After, after his admit?"
"Yes, after."

The judge wanted to know about the soft judgment Kadogo father was talking about. He wanted a detailed explanation of giving Kadogo soft kind of punishments before he admits.
"Tell us in general how was the punishment?" the judge said.
"I let him sleep with the Bible on his pillow for many days. I make sure that he does not play with his friends and I forced him to pray"
"You didn't force him to fast?"
"Not at all."

Sisse the judge knew not giving food for a while to children is one of the physical punishment that lead the child to lie just to satisfy their so you may give him food. And severely beating makes innocent admit what they haven't done just to escape the pain.
"I am aware of that." the father said.
"But you look suspicious in your punishment stories"

The early conclusion of the judges is that the child has told them exactly what is happening in the witch World. By reading his mind they felt that the child is saying the truth. They were always careful because they know all the witch cases there are many lies and hidden facts, they had to use their experience to find out the truth. They sure that your Pomlazi's mother had destroyed his neighbour's child.
One of the reason they had no merci for witches is that once a man is a witch will never give up those practices no matter how many confession and apologies he may ask. Soon or later they return to these practices. They knew that once you are a witch you will always be a witch.
They decided to call the concerned women, Mom Pomlazi, Kitshiwa to ask some of the questions before taking a final solution.

They decided to change the main judge for this part of the case. The previous judge has shown fatigue. They called Sello to take the second part of the judgment but for unknown reason to the public the man from town refused to take up the responsibility, so another elder took the stand to preside this part.
Mom Pomlazi was in her early forties. She wasn't that good looking women to be suspected immediately as a witch. The villager hated beautiful women because they were viewed as trouble in the community. They were saying in their proverbs that if you want to be happy for the rest of your life make a ugly women your wife:

Mom Pomlazi, Kitshiwa had one kid who is mentally retarded that is a stronger case for them to ask why that child is mentally retarded? They believed that witches use the mind of people who are mentally handicap in their world too.
They wanted to know why a 8 years old child may tell them that she is the one who make him witch? Why the 8 years old child do not pointed out to other hundred people he knows?
Having a mentally retarded child is a very sign in the community. They believed that witches eat the brain or misuse the brain.
The new judge called Xaca started with: "Why, Why, Why only you? A mental retarded child, witchcraft?"
She said: "I am not a witch."
Denying couldn't help much because the community knew that the real witches denies being members of those practice.
Xaca told her: "Mama tells us why a 8 years old who according to his stories have admitted of being witch. But why did the child insisted that you the one who gave him the magic stuff by food? Why the kid didn't mention other hundred of people he knows? Tell us why one of your children is mentally retarded?"

Before the judge finish the people were saying to the judge, the wanted Kitshiwa the mother of Pomlazi to be mob on the scene. The community had no time to pardon a witch suspect:
"Let burn her."
"Let burn her."
"Let burn her right now."
"We have to finish all the witches in the village�"

For many years the villagers wanted to make the village free from witches but it look like the witchcraft scenario never ends. They were fed up and vowed to kill all the witches.

The judge continue in answering to the angry crowd: "Please let us do our job. I have been judging witches for 35 years now�Give us a chance for a fair trial�Witches may not be eradicated 100 %. They are very clever people�"

Today many hide in churches, they were very good hypocrites, they only catch few of them after the damage is already done. They were are always shocked when they hear their names, some are very respected in the community.
Today case they were all surprised to hear some of the names here when Kadogo cited them but Xaca knew that that many witches are in their societies. He knew that even some people in the audience today who are screaming: "let burn them witches�Some of those people too are witches". Xaca demanded to the public: "Please give us a chance to do this very demanding case."
Xaca the new judge of the day turned to the mother of Pomlazi: "Tell us what a 8 years kid may gain or loose in denouncing you as that one who gave him the witch power to hurt people?"
"The child is lying."
"Woman listen, I am not asking you to defend your self."

They all know that witches do not admit of being witch. So they had no time to ask her to defend your self. They wanted an explanation from the day he gave Kadogo the vegetable that changed into meat. They believed that witchcraft in the community that are hurting people. No one will admit of being the cause of those suffering and hurt. They have already caught Kadogo who according to analyses is in fact a witch but wanted Mom Pomlazi to explain too why the kid pointed out her not Xaca, not Suza or Sello of giving this bad power?
Xaca insisted: " Why you?"
"I don't know."

The woman wasn't helping him and he decided to end the trail that supposed to take more hours immediately: "Because you still not co operative. My decision is final I am not asking anymore questions you will be burn alive now we will see latter if we have to burn the young Kadogo too or not."

The public applauded and sang a song after hearing that the woman will be burned. This time Sello was watching the proceeding and having fun at the same time as the woman tried to be co operative: "Please let tell you the truth."

The judge left the main chair just like that he has made the final decision. Mom Pomlazi has to face the burning ritual, the community mobbing. Xaca wasn't ready for more excuses. The others judges and the public agreed with him. "No, I don't have the time to listen to you now."
"I am sorry let tell you the truth."
Amazing the judge was not read to listen to her anymore.
Then Sello intervene: "I think we have to stop burning people."

In the modern court in town they don't believe in witchcraft they may find others sorts or kind of punishment beside killing people, they are many kind of punishments. There are many punishments in the World.
Xaca took back the main seat. It was in the middle of others judges seat with a big lions drawn. They used the sign of lion because it believed he was the king of animals. Xaca answered: "That will depend of the community to tell us which punishment to give."
Just the few words that Sello pronounced made him change the decision. He told the jubilating crowd: "Let first continue our judgment. Kitshiwa, Pomlazi's mother did you heard us?"

She may be the first one to avoid the capital punishment from now if the community agreed with Sello to give her other kinds of punishment. There was a lot of work in the community that they may give her.
He asked her again: "So tell us the truth, we may pardon you."
"I want to start by telling you why one of my child is mentally retarded."
"Tell us what you know."
"It is my husband fault."

Her husband went to see a famous witch doctor to have luck to succeed then they asked him a child. It why he gave the mind of our child in exchange of the luck.
Another shock as the Xaca recalled:

Xaca remembered it is why Pomlazi Dad was the first man in the village to own a bicycle 15 years ago beside the Europeans priests and missionaries living 20 kilometers away. It what they wanted to hear. Xaca was personally delighted that Pomlazi mom was more co operating and he was decided to also ease her sentence if she keep doing so.
She confessed: "I am not the kind of witch you think I am. I have some traditional stuff that my mother gave me to protect my family not to hurt any one else."

All the villager had the traditional protection that we inherited from our family but if those stuff are hurting other people it become bad magic or witchcraft. Most of them were a rob on under their belly, the bracelets, the some jewelry...
This wasn't the answer to the judge question. His question still lies on Kadogo family's claim that she was the one who gave Kadogo witchcraft that hurt already their family, why the young Kadogo do not point out to other people or others neighbors but only her? The judge insisted: "Let be serious what a young Kadogo has to gain or loose in telling us that you are the one who gave him the bad magic?"
"My judge" Kitshiwa said "I don't know how I can explain myself."

The way the judge was asking her questions it was like he wanted to be pleased with the woman admitting to some of the thing that she may have never did. She insisted: "You want me to say yes just to please you�"
"I am not asking you to say yes just to please us or to please Me." the judge responded.

Mom Pomlazi was the premier suspect here. But her yes or no must be accompanied by arguments. Xaca told her that they won't force her to please anybody. They will review their plan of the burning system of witches and other crime in this traditional court under Sello advice. Kitshiwa called Mom Pomlazi may be the first one to benefit of the grace that they may accord her.
Xaca explained how he wanted the answer to be: "Our main point is telling us yes or no accompanied by arguments."
"May be Kadogo's mother is the one who is influencing his child to revenge on me some kind of anger she have on me." Kitshiwa said.
"Do you think a mother can seat with an 8 years old and plan to lie without the court finding out the lies."

This was no sense the judges refused to accept or buy those excuses. They didn't have time to talk about women conflicts in the community because it exist and will always exist. Where there are two women it already a problems. In every levels or part of the community the women lives in conflicts. They call conflicts of women as their best song their want to dance to it. Play a drum women may be shy to dance but when there is a gossip women are not shy to talk.
Kitshiwa insisted: "My lord there is more I can talk but I am scared to make matter worst that it is."
The judge was now interested to what the woman said: "I have many thing to say but I am scared:"
"Tell us the problems; we are here to solve the problems."

They had solved thousand and thousand of problems in this court and they we don't see the special problem the women was scared of to be solved. They solve all the problems. Their work is to solve the problems.
She insisted: "I have a secret that we share with the father of Kadogo, Walabo."
Secret become the latest interesting word to the judge: "Tell us we are here to solve the matter. Tell us that secret."

She had a long secret affairs with Kadogo's father, Walabo before and after he become a Christian and she was sure that her third Gumandu was Wallabo 's son. But the love affairs ended a while ago when he becomes a dedicated Christian.
She told the court: "Gumandu is Kagogo's father son. I may call him and you will see the physical resemblance."
Cheating was one of the punishable sins. They don't burn them but they beat them for severely days.
The court was silence for about two minutes. No one was talking.
What a drama from witchcraft to cheating. Double dramas, in the village were there is no DNA test.
Everybody waited for the judges to make a decision: "You are already convicted of being a witch"
She had seven children and they didn't know if only one child was the biological child of her neighbour or all the children or some of them.

Xaca blamed the women of being witch and even went far seducing her neighbor�s husband! Keeping secret was one of the quality of witches. She kept secret for many years from people now she is blowing everything a part.
She accuses her husband of giving to the famous witch doctor her second child mind in exchange of luck, then she accuses her neighbor's husband of having a long time affair with her �Then may be I will be the next accused!
The crowd was now silence curious to hear the new development of the verdict. The woman continued:
"You have authorized me of telling the truth and I what I did" Kitshiwa said.
"We are not still convinced that you are telling us the truth" the judge said "we will need witness and proof to support your defense."

They decided to Kadogo's mother and father and some of the others neighbors not forgetting her husband to come in front and testify.

The judges decided to have a short break before returning and finish the long case. In their tradition they have to finish the case the same day to give no chance for the criminal to make up their story. They have only one day a week to finish the case.
When they returned they light on the lamps in the court. It was almost quarter to seven and it was already dark in the wall.
Sello who was not expecting to be in the judging panel was surprise finding himself rubbing shoulder with the wise men in the land.

When they were in a break the judges decided to have a short meeting before proceeding:

They knew that Sello will help and a lot of input in this case. This latest case has become a complicated case they have seen in many years.
Sello was telling the wise men: "We don't have to trust all the accused are saying."

His main concern and his to help the community in those short day he has here before he returns to town, he wanted the community to stop burning or killing people who are accused of being witches. In the modern court they do not accept anything like magic or witchcraft. He was not in the village to tell villagers to deny the witch fact. He was not a judge in town he works in the mine but he assisted in many cases there in the modern court. He insisted: "This is my big input I may come up with to stop killing people accused of being witches."
One of the judge told him: "Sello, this is a traditional court. We will run it like tradition run the court."
"There are many punishments that we may give to those find guilty besides killing."

He told them that if they keep saying that it is traditional court so let keep everything traditional: let stop wearing clothes because clothes are modern things�He thinks they have to mix the good of tradition and good of civilization.
Xaca told Sello: "We have to talk to the community if they may accept."
"The community will not accept if you do not persuade them." Sello told him "You are highly respected people to persuade the community."
"You have made a good point."
Some of the dignitaries start accepting Sello input, there was no need to kill those who have been finding guilty of witchcraft while many are still hiding in the community. It is really unjustified and really unfair.
Sello was happy to hear the some wise men support: "This is very impressing."

They have to try to convince the people of stopping killing. Together they may be able to persuade the public to stop those practices and find alternative punishment.
Xaca call the court to restart after about 30 minutes break: "Let go to finish our work, we have one more case before closing the session today."
The wise men took they seat while the people in the ward were coming back.
The main judge called everybody for the hearing and make this point "Kitshiwa, Pomlazi mother, you have really to thank Sello for convincing us to stop killing"
The public disagreed they have been burn the witches for many years, they wanted to burn Mom Pomlazi before they think about stopping this practices.
Kalao, Sello's with his group have set already the fire outside the court. He was disappointed that it is his uncle who really comes up with this idea.
Kalao had the courage to come in front and told to his uncle: "We are here in rural area not in town�We disagreed with Sello's suggestion. It is our culture to kill the witches"
Xaca intervene again to calm the public: "Please, listen" the judge said "I heard you give us also a chance to be heard. We kept burning witches for a long time but still the witches are not finishing in our community."

They have to punish those find guilty to work for elders in the community. Many elders need domestic worker. They may only adjust they law. They have done before when they used to burn even the children witches. They have changed to give them two chances before burning them. The same could have been applied to adult witches when they are found may be guilty twice.
This is a traditional court but they were living in a very advanced World now. They have started to mix Western civilization to their civilization.

Xaca told the angry public: "If someone disagreed, it better for him to stop wearing clothes now because clothes are part of the new civilization."
They have seen the importance of sending children to school and going to hospital when their traditional medicine fails to heal. Schools and hospital and the new way of transports such us bicycles and clothes are new civilization. So they kept mixing the two cultures together. And it always unfair killing other witches and still having many witches hidden in the community. Everybody knew that many witches still in their community.

The jury felt that they have to change these practices because they burned for hundreds of years witches still they have many more coming.

One of the member in the community come up with a suggestion: "Judge, I know if we were not burning witches we could have more witches than now�We understand that they don't finish. Those who are guilty will work for the community and if there are find again guilty for the second time we will then burned them. But let burn or kill the witches in action."

The court was quiet for a while. They were ready to accept the proposition. Many witches were still hiding even thought they burnt many. They have adjusted the law once. They all agreed that they have to mix the two traditions: modern one and the traditional one.
But they were vowed to kill the witches in action. For example a human find in late night time, in an unfamiliar position for example naked with unknown substances.
Xaca told the court with the agreement: "We agreed with your suggestion."

They decided to debate again to this subject in the near future. They have to rush and finish the case of the day, they have the impression that the case will take many days before they conclude but they court finish the case the same day.
Xaca called thee father of Pomlazi, real name Mulungu. "Did you suspect that your wife had an affair?"
At least they accepted to give those so called big person witch a second chance. When you are finding guilty twice of witchcraft you will be burned. The judge continued his duty. Mulungu answered: "I never suspected"

He didn't know if it is true or not that his wife cheated with his neighbour for many years. He confused since hearing the sad news. In a place where DNA test do not exist. The only DNA test was the resemblance. He didn't know if he has to believe to what his wife has said. He hoped that is not true, there is no method to test that his wife has cheated or not. He trusts their culture but this is more confusing.

The judge Xaca wanted to know about the handicapped child he has: "Tell us more about the lucky magic you got from the witch doctor?"
"It is true that I went to see a witch doctor for luck but I never sold the mind of my son as said my wife." Mulungu said
Sello sister Fonfon had too a mental retarded child, brother of Kalao. They judges find out that they were punished by the ancestors for failing to respect the ancestor due. They annual sacrificed called Tumbakile. Where they have to kills animals on the remembrance (memory) of their tribe�s ancestor.

Everybody were wondering that how come he saw the witch doctor to get success and then he become the first man to own a bicycle in Kisangu and at the same time one of his child become mentally retarded?

Pomlazi father, Mulungu explained: "I had a very fruitful farm business. When I sold the product of my farm I had enough products to exchange to a bicycle."

They main concern is this coincidence. Success and the same time a retarded child?
"I don't know where this coincidence is from." Mulungu said "What I know I saw the witch doctor who do not live in our village Kisangu."

Xaca was running against time. They had to finish the case the same day. They were approaching already ten hours in the evening. They were already feeling tired. They had to wake up early in the morning for their daily preoccupations: farming, hunting, fishing...
"Okay we will be back to this subject." the judge said "Did you ever suspect your wife of being a witch?"

Mulungu, Pomlazi father was trying to recall all the events: "I do suspect some time. If really she had an affair with my neighbor who is my friend, I will definitely say she is the biggest witch in this community."

He didn't want to think about this subject because the news was fresh in my mind. He didn't know what to do now. To be angry with her and his neighbors Kadogo's father but he keeps praying that is not true.
Everybody had compassion of the calm confused man. Xaca insisted: "I am sorry of the news."

They were all angry with the news that they just heard. They felt personally very bad if is true she have insulted their ancestors, their culture and must be severely punished.
It was one of a proof of witchcraft. They define witchcraft too as a secret especially woman secret because it always shocking once found.
Xaca said: "Please be strong, we are here to solve the problem. Did you ever suspect that your third child look like your neighbor?"

The third child wasn't in the court. The couple had eight children in total. The man said: "I hope that I am dreaming. I pray that is not a reality."

He look at my third child in his mind when the judge finished that statement and he realized that the back of his third child look like his neighbor's back and even his cheeks�
His neighbour Kadogo father had a remarkable bent back.

The man cried as many people and the judges in the public come to comfort him:
"Brother be strong�"
"Brother stop crying."
"C'est la vie, c'est la vie" (It is life, It is life )
"Don't cry my brother�"
Every body was very shocked and every body was silent and very angry with Kitshiwa, Pomlazi's mother. Then Xaca the judge continued: "The witch has witched everybody: she has witched the neighbors, the all family, the judges and the all community. Sello with respect how can we pardon this behaviour?"
The judge wanted to change the decision proposed by Sello to stop burn immediately the woman. Even after agreeing he blamed the Sello who come with new idea of a different punishment. The man from town calmly told them: "Still, it is too early to jump into conclusion."

Foe Sello insisted that they were far from the final verdict. Cheating was prohibited and severely punishable. For Sello he believed that sometime the look alike may be just a coincidence. But I am wondering too how the child may look like the neighbor?

This is the most controversy case that we are experiencing in many years from witchcraft to cheating.
The judge continued: "Mulungu, Pomlazi's father we are sharing with you your pain tell us more about your children mind you sold to the witch doctor?"
It looks like they were ready to pardon the man but not his wife: "I remember that I went to see the witch doctor to have luck in life." Mulungu said.

The witchdoctor asked him to give in sacrifice someone that he loved the most so the magic substance may work. It was more than twenty years ago. The village was exposed to clothes but not for bicycle. He was motivated to get a bicycle when he saw a priest riding it.
He felt in love with that technology.
Mulungu, Pomlazi father told the witchdoctor that he was not able to give a member of his family and he was ready to give up. Then the witchdoctor called Sangoma in their dialect proposed him to sacrifice his first born child and the witchdoctor told him he cannot do that. He told him that he will make the decision on his behalf because he talked with his ancestors.
Then the witchdoctor gave him the magic stuff. It was about 5 kilos mixture to mix in the soul so his plant will grow and gave the double of product. Plus about 1 kilos of substance to mix with water and drink every morning.
It worked in his life he had success in his life: fruitful in his farm and he end up having many children and many wives in my life. 8 with Pomlazi mother and about other 40 kids with 6 others wives. It was a record in the tribe were polygamous wasn't that popular. Only chief and few people had many wives.
They discouraged this practices because they noticed that women who were not allow to have many partners were struggling sometime because they husband were rare in their house when the women need them.
The people who had many wives on top of that were old unable to satisfy sexually many of their partner. The women find themselves in prison of love. Some women even went far killing the polygamous husband to get other men.

The consequence was that many women started cheating even with their relatives. It was easy to cheat with relatives with neighbours because no one could suspect while with another lover or a neighbour it was easily suspected.
So Vumani the king of this tribe that time decided 50 years ago to discourage this practices. Since he took that decision cheating when down. It look like Pomlazi father was suffering from this consequence with seven wives. He wasn't always there for Pomlazi mother.

But Pomlazi's father didn't understand after 2 years he got a children retarded mentally. He returned to the witch doctor to ask him why he did this to him and he responded him that he is not aware of that. May be it has something to do with Pomlazi father own ancestors.

Pomlazi father went to many traditional doctors around Kisangu to heal his son without success each doctor gave his is own opinion: some said it anomaly are punishment from his wife side, some said that it was from a sin that what his parent have done...
He never personally sells his child's child mind. He thinks that the luck stuff the witch doctor gave him was not free. He gave to the doctor many cows and product from his farm almost the quarter of his product.

People in the wall were shocked to hear how some people do to get luck and success. Xaca told Pomlazi's father: "I heard the story but there is more."
Mulungu defended himself: "Tell me how can I give materials and a mind of the human been?"
"It is clear but we would like to see more supportive proof to your case."
"The witch doctor who gave me the stuff passed away but his son took over. I may use him as my witness."

Mulungu Rontika trouble wasn't over. The judge refused to accept all the man said. The witchdoctor do not makes a sacrifice on behalf of the client. The sacrifices are proposed by witchdoctors and the clients accept that proposition. The client does what the witchdoctors ask. Most of the time it was the man's belonging of the one who they have to sacrifice. They often took his hairs, nails, peace of clothes. With those belonging the witchdoctor will take the DNA kind of that person and send it in a dark world.
Once that man his sacrificed by dying or loosing his part of the body or even getting mad. The success comes in the client's life. Everything he touches succeeds automatically.

One of the man who saw the evolution is the newest enemy who used to be his best friend and good neighbor the father of Kadogo, Walabo. He will not defend him but would like to see Pomlazi dying so he may enjoy with his first wife like he did. He used to meet his wife through the window and in the bushes now he will enjoy entering by the main door.

The man wasn't really under immense pressure; his case wasn't the main day case. It is his wife case that supposed to be finish in few hours.
Xaca took a short break of five minutes. He refused to let another judge to help him. He loved the story and wanted to end the case.

Solving a complicated case was boosting their reputation and respect in the community. He said: "Let call again the father of Kadogo, Walabo and ask him about this matter of cheating story."
They called the neighbour who was the accuser to be the accused on the cheating story: "I am here my judge."
"Okay tell us about this cheating story" The judge said "What do you know and why one of your neighbor son look like you?"
"I don't know this story." Walabo defended himself "I am a very dedicated Christian and enjoy my family life. I will never hurt anyone."
This could have been a big blow for the growing church in the community. People could even resist to go to the church if a Christian is find guilty of cheating. The Bible and the traditional law are against these practices. The judge wanted to know more: "Tell us even before you become a Christian you never cheat?"
"I have another wife, why can I cheat again?"

Walabo, Kadogo�s father before becoming a dedicated Christian had a 17 years old fianc�. But when he become dedicated to the church, he let go that young and energetic lover. It was one of the main sacrifices he did.

For the judge the answer wasn't convincing. "Please come up with some proof that may clarify the matter. In our culture we say that the beautiful wife is the neighbour's wife."

One of the people in the audience asks for his intervention. The judge agreed to hear what the man wanted to talk. He was in his late fourties and was a fish man by profession. His name was Digolongo: "I am sorry if I have to intervene in this manner but I would like to clarify the matter with what I saw many years ago."

Digolongo saw Kadogo 's father and Pomlazi 's mother together from the bush near the river Mukamba twice in the late hours. That is one of the proofs that may help them to get a conclusion.

The witchcraft story was now mixed to cheating story. A member in public has just confirmed. He was a witness too. This court allowed the witnesses and a volunteer has clarify the matter.
Xaca shook his head and said: "You heard what this man have said"
"This is revenge" Walabo defended himself �the man who stood up and lie is my enemy. We clashed many times."

Dogolongo according to Walabo, Kadogo's father wanted to get married to niece wife but he opposed to the marriage and gave his niece in marriage to another man. Dogolongo who disappeared long time ago has returned in the court to revenge. Kadogo father wanted even to call his niece for the testimony.
In this village when they needed a witness they used to send young people to go and call them even in the late night of the evening.
Xaca decided to concentrate on the case of the day: "But tell us how a neighbor son may look like you?"
"You know that we have the same ancestors and we are all from the same tribe."
"This is ridiculous man we all have neighbors but our children do not look like our neighbors."

For the judge they must be some thing very strange. Walabo, Kadogo's father may be has been witched by that Kitshiwa, the woman suspected of African witch craft? They were all human and it easy for them to understand that way how the woman could have seduced his neighbour and at the same time give witchcraft to his son.

Xaca was avoiding now to call unnecessary witnesses. They have these witchcraft problems in the community that need urgent solution. They job was to reconcile in the community too. This case only may need more than 100 peoples to testify. Xaca knew that the niece will obviously defend his uncle in this case this could be true or a false statement.
They question is how come your neighbor child look like him? Not all his children just one. His neighbor's wife has just said that you slept with her many times before and shortly after he become Christian.
They decided to call the mother of Kadogo who was present in the wall.
The Wiseman asked her: "Did you suspected some think strange in the relationship between your husband and the neighbour's wife?"
The woman was quiet for sometime and that silence gave a sign that they could have been something wrong: "I know that my husband had a mistress that he was about to take in marriage too."

That time Kadogo's mother supported him even thought it was hard but the culture come first. She accepted her house to do his choice in getting in marriage the second wife. Thanks God for her when think were about to be done, the man changed his decision and vowed to stand by the Bible's preaching.
She never suspects an affair of her husband and the witch neighbor may be she witched him according to her. She knew that there are good friend laughing and joking as good neighbors. But she was suspicious little bit the way her husband defended her when they found out that Kadogo was a witch.
They both knew that it was the strange neighbor who destroyed their family. Her husband didn't want her to report to the community the findings. She thought may be he wanted to protect the image of the family now she had the impression he wanted to protect the neighbor witch who witched him and he fell in love with her. You know a witched man never admit of being witched.

Tajalo, Kadogo's mother started by defending his husband then at the end seems to have suspected the cheating story. The judge seems to have the clue: "You are right Mama a witched man or woman will never admit that his or she being witched unless the damage is done."

Her husband does not have enough proofs to defend this mater. Xaca refused to ask further questions. So far he had had 3 findings: first Kadogo is a witch and the neighbor have given him this bad magic and then the neighbor witch had a long time affair with Kadogo's father.

He would like to have more findings on this case but time wasn't on their side. In promised next week to call Pomlazi father to continue on the case of the bicycle's luck. And the former judge Pamo who was also suspected of being a witch had to defend himself too.
Then in two weeks time to tackle the wine maker Kitenge and Pasi the wife of one of the pastors in the community who were cited as witches too. They had to see all the family record all the premature death and unfortunate circumstances in their family and see how they can form a strong case against them.

Then he concluded in punishing the witch woman Pomlazi mother to serve the elder in the community for many months.

They had many elder who needed to be taken care in the community. Then Kagiso father have to pay his neighbor, Pomlazi father 20 cows they don't care how long it will take to pay him then apologize to the community. They decided to monitor and look for the cure of Kadogo against that witchcraft. They were vowed to find the traditional doctors to heal him. Even thought many converted from witchcraft always return to their previous practices. They know the witches even after the healing return to their strange practices if they want to. The one who drank before always drink it what they says in their tradition.
Xaca warned that if something happen in Kadogo family such us premature death they will blame and burn this time Pomlazi's mother and Kadogo. Pomlanzi's mother is the one who brought this problem and must fix it. Pomlazi mother have to work also for punishment in Kadogo's mother farm doing each year of her life to one hectare of maize.
Xaca asked the community: "I will ask the community what they think of this new punishment?"

No one disagreed to the judge ruling even people who wanted to burn witches where satisfy because the judge insisted that if something bad happen the witches will be burn. It what the crowd wanted to hear. But not all of them were satisfied enough but a satisfied man in public gave his view to the new system of sentencing: "Judge we think this kind of punishment is good helping the elder and working in the farm. But if the witch repeats twice she will have to be burn without any excuses."
The judge of the day closed the judgment. Every week they were a new judge in that panel of 10 judges sometime 20 judges and dignitaries depending to the day.
The traditional law didn't need an amendment from the parliament to approve the change it was only the community who makes the decision according to their own experience in the community.
Xaca concluded: "I hope the community is happy with our new ruling. We have to rest to recharge our mind and we will see you next Sunday."
It was around Monday morning at around two hours in the mourning that they got the solution to this matter.

The people got out of the traditional court discussing about the new ruling. The where two camps in the public even though in the court everybody looks at satisfied:

They were expecting to burn people today but this man from town Sello has destroyed our plan. But at the end they didn't insist when the judge asked you about what you thought of the ruling. The traditional judges are always ready to listen to the public.

The shock of many people is that Pamo is suspended and matter worst his suspected of being witch too. A respected man in the community.
On top of that the wine maker and the wife of one of the pastor in the community was a witch. They suspected that the beautiful woman had witchcraft that she added on her beauty while the wine maker had a witchcraft formula to make beer and attract customers.

Many suspected that the secret motive to ban the burning of witches. It to save some high personality who are witches too such us Pamo.

This scandal was a confirmation that is no exception of witches, any one in the World may be a witch: poor or rich, dignitary or simple citizen.
Everybody was happy that once a pardoned witch find again guilty will be burn alive.

Some have lost their loved one who were accused of witchcraft and felt unjust that the new law give a second chance to other while their relatives and friend who were burned didn't have a second chance.

No one opposed the judge decision to call for Sello advises. However, whenever Sello may be gone is still their brother, they have the same ancestors. Sello come to visit them because he knows where he belongs.

Sello didn't choose to go to other villages but to come in Kisangu where he belong this is his ancestor's land. Sello come with the contribution to make our tribunal the best in this area. The judges knew that they needed some new input in their court.

CHAPTER FOUR: WHITE MAGIC

Monday morning while many men of the villagers were leaving the village early in the morning. Sello was in holiday, he decided to sleep until 9 hours in the morning. It was against they tradition where women and men always wakes up early in the morning even if they sleep at around four in the mourning. By five they wake up and by turn they go to the dead near by volcano mountain Sukuma and bath with warm water.
Sello, loved the rural areas even thought he lived in big town for many years. He remembered how the cock used to wake them up in the morning. In town the cock were very rare. He loved the natural way of life in the village. The animals were natural. They were strings and tasted very good. When Sello arrived in town he had the impression that everything tasted like a mixture of water. The chicken even fruit that grown up with many unnatural chemistry had no taste.
In town the industrial farms used to sells the chicken after weeks but in the village, the chicken were strong and natural and ate after many months. The chicken from rural areas were strong and tasted good with the natural taste.
Sello once visited a chicken farm in town. The chickens were big in size in few weeks. They had no instinct. He had the impression that they could not see. Even when they were thrwon they had no feeling. They were unable to sing the Cocorico songs. The fruit were big in size after few months of they were planted, too much chemical.
Sello even realized that children in big town were growing very fast but were not that wise. They were not able to stand the hard life or enjoy what the children in the rural areas do. They were unable to walk for many kilometers. They didn't know to farm, to hunt or even fish. On top of that they knew nothing about the African culture. He had the impression that they had no soul at all. He tried to re capture what he missed for many years, the true African's life.

The women start sweeping their house and the streets of the village at around five to six hours in the morning, while many men leave the village at around four to five in the morning.

There was turn of bathing. Turn for young male and turn for adult to bath. Turn for young women and elder women. The children under 7 years old were bath in the village by their mother in big traditional pond. The elder and sick people also bath in the self build toilet most build and covered with palms leaves.
Sello wanted to rest, he wanted to recharge the energy before returning to the stressful work in the mines in town.

He had with him a small radio. He didn't have time to open that newly technology in Africa's town because he was busy chatting to many visitors. It was in his rooms when he open the radio. He wanted to get the news from his home town Leonville and world news. He tried to capture the only station on AM from Leonville and international radio station such us: radio France international and BBC he fails. It wasn't that clear then he decided to wait until in the afternoon to capture those radio stations.
Even in Leonville, they used to have a problem to capture the international radio. They used to wait in the afternoon to get one. It was only radio Leonville that they could capture during the days time. All the stations were using frequency AM frequency, there were no FM frequency that time.

He decided to have a walk by the river Mukamba watching birds, small animal and watching in the water some crocodiles, hippopotamus eating the fishes. Talking to fish men.
The river Mukamba had plenty of animals but those wild animals in the water were rarely attacking the villagers. The villager too were not killing them because they were not eating in their tribe crocodiles and hippopotamus. Once an animal attack someone in the water, the villager will blame the victims as having problems with his neighbours or family relatives.
Their crocodile weren't that big like the caiman and other species of crocodile that kills humans. The hippopotamus were big but were used to live next to human.
They believed that an animal become a danger to humans once the human become a danger to them. They could easily get out of the water and stand on the sun for many hours not fearing the humans.
In their culture, their refuse waste, for example throwing food while some people may need food. Killing an animals that they don't eat.
But in the other part of the land big crocodiles and hippopotamus were very dangerous time to time killing fish men. It believed that it was also a natural animal instinct to defend against the humans who used to kill them. Those animals have developed another culture viewing humans as meat two while in Kisangu those animal in the water view humans as friends.

Sello when return home at around six in the afternoon accompanied by a group of about 6 hours in the evening. When they women see the men automatically they warm they cooked food and come to serve the men without asking them if they wanted to eat.
For the men of town Sello he was treated like a baby. They knew that he has lost the village culture. They always warm some water for him and put in the toilet and call him to bath.
They women talk to the men with they right knees down. They are not allowed to chat or be in a group of men.
When Sello finished to bath he went in his room and come with a small box. The villagers were waiting for him to join them and continue they discussion and hear the story of the civilization in town Leonville.

The villager were watching him for a while with that they viewed as a decorated box. He open, they heard some music playing. They were watching that box thinking that it was a musical instrument because the man from town was turning a round button. They realized that even when he stopped touching it, it was playing.

It was a small radio that Sello bought two days before he travel to the village. He earn good mines from the money and was able to afford luxury.
The radio phenomenon and television was still new in town in the sixties in Africa and many people even in town were not even able to afford one. The radio they used to buy were big radio that looks like cupboard. But this man working in the mine was able to buy the big one and a personal radio.

Even in Leonville less than 50 people had the personal small radio. But soon after buying it, he decided to take it with him to the rural area. Even in town few people have seen the new technology.

He open for the first time a radio in the village. Many kept following Sello and curiously listen to the radio for the first time in their lives. This was a big phenomenon in the village. They heard the music and a man talking in French. They didn't know what they were talking in the radio. In this region everybody talk their Kambelembele dialect and name of their tribe and language.

A group of about ten people who were with him started analyzing the radio, they wanted the answer of everything immediately. While Sello hold his new accusation by his ear to hear the news. Even in Sello's home in town no one had to touch it. It was an expensive and rare technology. His wife Jeanne and his two children Shona and Bwalya were not allow to touch it. It took this new technology as a new pet for him: "This is a white magic different to our magic."
"Sello have brought a new phenomenon here." A villager commented "In this small peace of wood box we listen people talking and singing loudly."
"They must be small people in this peace of wood." said another villager.
"I know the priests living in the neighbouring village must also have this magic" another villager added "there are small people in this peace. It is a World like our World were there are people like us but there are small and very small but can talk loudly."

The small radio working with batteries become their newly attention, while Sello tried to listen to the world news. Sello ignored his friends for a while to concentrate on the news. He had few spare batteries and wanted to use them wisely. To listen for about an hours a day the radio. Even the batteries were not also cheap. The villager kept discussing and analyzing while the owner of the radio ignored them for a while:

The villagers believed that if they open this peace of wood we will see those small peoples.
They were convinced that once they burn this peace of wood they will burn a big small nation and this will be a big sin like killing thousand of peoples.

They believed that those people have an organized World like them. They have they king. Their families are like their family composed of children, wife, husband, and farmers like them. "This is really white magic, which you cannot explains."
Everything that were behind they understanding were called Magic. The black magic include witchcraft were ordinaries things happening in they community that they couldn�t understand it and the White magic were all the imported technology and things that they didn�t know how it is made or operated.

Sello a man from town had another thought in mind different of others. Sello was even tired sleeping on his chair. He was just shy to tell people to leave him sleeping. He looks at tired, every Sunday with the morning church, afternoon court session. It was already dark next to the traditional lamp group of formers friend and relatives keep analyzing the white magic: "I think you are all wrong there is no people in this wood." noticed a villager "Why they don't eat or go to the toilet?"
"Sello will never tell us" another villager confirmed "I am sure he gave them food and water when all the people are not aware."
"Those people are like ants." another villager commented "Very small and they go out at night to search for food and go to the toilet too. I know the priest have also this peace of wood."
"Do you think where Sello got it?" another villager wondered.
"From the white witches." said this villager "They only get it from white witches in town. I wonder how Sello got it?"
Then the discussion become intense and some people were about to fight for their differences. Sello decide to wake up and intervene. He took the radio and tried to explain: "My brothers there is no magic here it modern technology."

While the villager believed that black witches are hiding their magic, whites do not hide but put their technology to the accession of everybody.
Sello promised that if open inside the radio they won't even see small people like aunt inside. He told them that they will see only some sorts of wires. Trough this peace of wood Sello was able to listen to what the people are doing in big towns. He didn't have any tool to open and prove the villagers wrong and he was scared that one he open he was not a technician to put back the radio together and may destroy his cherish portable radio.
He told the villagers that those people who are talking are human like him and villagers but they are far.
He told them that this technology is called radio. It only form of communication. The black magic has also this method but there are using it in secret. You have to have they nature to communicate. The witches are communicating with every witch in the World. But the white magic radio communicate with everybody.
"How did you get hold of this radio the white magic while you are black?" a villager asked.

Sello bought it, it is even more expensive than a bicycle. He was sure that in the coming day this technology will reach the villagers by the businessmen. He insisted: "You will see in the next months business men coming with this technology here."
"Why it is more expensive than bicycle but we have bicycles around here not radio?" the villager asked.

It was because this technology has arrived now in the towns from Europe. In Europe they have this technology long time ago but in Africa they had the first radio station two years ago in Nigeria. Then after one year many African country and Congo had the radio station.
They were listening song after song and Sello uncle Ngandu who was in his early sixties asked the man from town: "ell me the men who are singing they don't get tired, keep singing over and over again?"
"Hey are not present in the broadcasting house."

He explained that there are many different musical groups who sang and through the new technology they keep those voices and instruments in some kind of recorded material that they play every time they want to.

Sello explanations didn't help but brought more confusion: "I don't understand at all what you are talking about. You just make us more confused than ever before."

Really was difficult to explain to them without materials but surely in the next coming months you will be able to hold and own this radio and you will understand.
Then intervene Sello's uncle Ngandu: "Sello, I am old than you."
The respect of old people was recommended in their culture. Ngandu disagreed with a young man explanation.
For Ngandu cannot lie to them, He was the he one who can lie to him. He saw Sello as a baby, his wife is the one who helped Sello's mother to give birth to him. They helped him to eat and talk. He remember when Sello was born more than forty years ago. Ngandu was newly married when her sister, Sello mother Connie Vuka was about to give birth.

He run away to witness her sister giving birth. Ngandu wife who was just seventeen with tree kids at the time courage sly help her to give birth. When Ngandu returned with four old women to help his sister Connie Vuka to give birth they find that she has already given birth. But something when wrong the new born baby was not breathing.
Ngandu watched the old women hitting the new baby and help him to breath. It was after about an hour that they heard the breathing beat of Sello.

For Ngandu this grow up baby had no right to lie to them. They saw the sun before him. Ngandu was convinced that this is a white magic that Sello got from white magicians in town.
He insisted: "You cannot tell us about listening to people from town�This is really lies. It is magic there are small people inside this wood."
"Uncle" Sello said "I don't want to lie to you. I respect you and I will always respect you."

Sello was trying to explain to them what is happening. He was very sorry if he has disturbed them. For a while he regretted why he open and brought in the first place the radio. He regretted and said to himself that he supposed to lock it in his personnel cupboard in Leonville instead of bringing it in a land where they haven't hear about the radio.
If he knew how to open this radio and if he had tool, he could have shown them what is inside.
There is nobody inside. He didn't want to destroy this material he had about 12 days left for him in the village of his ancestors. He refused to not loose this think this early. I wanted to get much information from this radio.
For Ngandu and other they were convinced that Sello was scared to destroy this magic because he will be destroyed by the white magician who gave him and in process he may loose his life or one of his family members by the revenge of white ancestors.
Ngandu reminded him of a popular proverb in the village: "Let me tell you Sello in our culture they always say: they hears will never grow tall than the head? Did you ever see someone with long hears tall than the head?"
"No uncle."
"That means Sello you may have seen a lot in town that we never see but that do not mean that you are wiser than us."

Sello never thought that his explanation will bring so much confusion in the head of villagers and others people:
The old man was not done yet. Sello's friends were quiet, listening the uncle discussing with his nephew. "We also say in our tradition: the mouth of an old man stinks but the words from the old man's mouth do not stink."

An old men may appears dirty and without a meaning to young one but he may help the young one to build his life with advises because he saw more days than the young one and have experienced more too than the young one.
"Uncle I respect all you are saying."
"No, you do not respect us because you are trying to lie people here." Ngandu warned him "We are more than ten peoples and you are trying to lie to us like small kids Sello."
"Uncle really I tried to show you the reality because I saw that some people wanted to fight here."
"So to calm the situation you have to lie?"
"No, uncle�"
"Sello listen my advice."

Ngandu said that it was easy and better to lie to people when they just wake up from their bed. It easy that times because the mind still very slow to react! Not this time people were in the morning at the church, in the afternoon to the court and now they are ready to go to sleep.

The uncle insisted: "Be careful my son, if you want to see many years like us you have to respect us."
This subject becomes more personal. Sello regretted why he even open the radio in this isolated world. He didn't open it for a week already because he had many visitors. But he felt that he was forced to get the news from town. Some of them may be very crucial to help me when to return to the town. There was a Mulele guerilla group that was menacing to attack some villagers if the government does not meat they demand to be included in the government.
He didn't want to be caught by the guerilla faction who used to amputate all the people civilized. All the people from town. The guerilla fighter felt that people from town were supporting the government. All the people they may catch from the truck or any car wearing well with a clean cut were from town and deserved to be amputated. The guerilla fighter called Mulele were fearest because of they.
The Mulele used to hide in the bushes and stop the car on their way to town. It only the radio that was able to warn the citizen of the dangerous area and was these mobile guerillas was.
He tried to calm his uncle: "I will respect you and I will always respect you and the value of our culture but I wanted to show you only how it works. I don't know much but I wanted to contribute with what I know."
"You are the one who supposed to ask us."

Ngandu was furious that Sello didn't suppose to explain them anything. For him Ngandu supposed to come with his small packed wood-box materials that he calls radio and ask them: "my elder I got this radio in town, I don't understand the mechanism of this material�Please can you help me to understand the mechanism?"
It how a polite child asks for help. Not to sit with his radio and explaining that "�Listen here there is no people here it only wire �Man you crazy how do wire can talk, sing and dance too."

"I don't know what to say" Sello said "I think it better to leave this discussion because I never thought this could be so controversy. You will give me a reason later when the technology will be available here too."

Ngandu by nature had a problem to easily give up the discussion. He wanted to be known as someone who knows everything. He always asks questions and when you answer, he proves you wrong with your answers.
Sello decided Keep his energy for the long discussion, he haven't forget his uncle. He was quiet old and wanted to hang around with youngster. He even got in marriage a twenty tree year�s old woman as his second wife. He never accepted that he was growing.

He asked Sello who was trying to avoid him: "Tell me the difference between the black and white witch or magic."
Sello stood for few seconds and sat trying to come up with understandable words:

"The black witch craft is there to hurt. It based on jealousy." Sello said "If someone is successful the black witch come to destroy the successful man. But white magic is about competition if someone is successful, in white witch you compete to surpass him but not to destroy him. If you friend buys a bicycle, you work hard to buy a motorcycle."
Short and clear answer to villagers as another man supporter. "Sello is right."

They knew that in the black witchcraft they destroy all is success based only on jealousy. When they feel that the other has more things or he is more successful than the other in killing him or doing a bad things so they may all loose. But the white witches they tried to see how the others are successful and see how to be better than the other.

It is very simple equation for the villager. They know black witches kill even his own brother or sister just by jealousy. Not only family members but everybody. Witchcraft was defined as an intense and uncontrollable jealousy that unable people do anything to hurt his neighbour.
The only jealousy that was tolerated is the one of protecting the love one. For example a women who protect his husband for being seduced by other women or a man who protect his children from being corrupt by his children's friend with immorality.
They felt that if they can apply the white witchcraft method they could be all successful. If your neighbour got 20 tons of maize and your turn try to get more maize than the other had collected in working hard.

They went far in explaining witchcraft not only killing at night or with the traditional substances it includes also hurting in different ways. They saw many cases where people have been poisoning each other just by jealousy that it also witchcraft.

They had a strange case last month where a woman poisons her own sister because she had many boys than her. The sister was jealous simply because her sister had many boys. She had 7 boys, she said that the sister was more successful because those boys will help her. They could work and be more successful. The sister killer. She had seven girls and only one boy. In they culture boys are sign of success. The girls will get married to other people and join other families but the boys remain always in the family instead they bring into the family other members that are their wives.
Sello was couldn't understand why a sister could be jealous if his own sister. He tried to compare the killer sister had many children because seven girls and one boy equal to eight. But her poor sister who was killed had only 7 children even though all her children were boys�

This discussion ended the long day of Sello. Sello who come in holiday wasn't resting the way he wanted to because he confronted many problem in the village that he left twenty years ago and was there to try to explain everything.

Tuesday, The next day the village chief Kifwebe invited Sello and complain that Sello didn't come to great on his arrival. The chief invited his honorable guest in the house of his second wife. The chief's second wife has been so popular in the last two years. It seems that the chief have lost interest in his first wife.
Kifewbe in their dialect means a man with a mask. A man to fear. Kifwebe was chief of Kisangu for about 25 years.
Sello still recalled the event when he was a young boy in Kisangu. Kifewbe father died very old in his sleep and Kifwebe was chosen as a new chief because he was born from as the first male child of the first wife.
They were two kinds of children in the polygamous families. The A children, the most respected children were those born from the first wife and the B children from other wives. The A children were the most respected one. And the B was less respected.
It was a joy for Sello that Kifwebe become a chief because his children were his friend. He remembers how the villagers has to contribute with their domestic animals for the big party. He remembers that some had to contribute with their farm products.

He still recalls the bad memory of seeing Kifwebe father being bury with two people who were alive. He remember how he felt the pain how the two people will be struggling to live in the soil. It was a painful experience. Those two people who were buried with Kifwebe father were his closest bodyguards. In their culture they supposed to look after the chief even when he is buried.
What a bad job to be a trusted bodyguard of the chiefs. All the trusted bodyguard knew that if the chief dies before them, they will accompany him even in their tomb.
He still remember what happen twenty five years ago when in the chief ceremony, he witness the only authorized incest in their land. A chief sleeping with his mother in a public place while the drummer celebrated with their drums when the chief ejaculated.
This ceremony almost cost Kifwebe the job, they were about to replace him by his following brother because he failed for many minutes to ejaculate. He was also very scared of this ceremony to commit the incest.
The Wiseman were there watching the proceeding.
Kifwebe at first refused to commit the authorized ritual incest, he fake the act and the wise men who were the referee warned him for the first time. Then the following time, he didn't enjoy doing that incest and wasn't able to ejaculate to end the ritual. The wise men warn him twice, until he decided to force and forget the painful ceremony.
In their traditional stories many people lost their chance to be the supreme village chief by this ceremony. Even Kifwebe father inherited the throne when his elder brother refused to commit the incest.
It was the traditional ceremony and supreme authority given to the new chief to look and have a say to everybody include his own mother.
This incest used to be a secret affair taking place in the room but because many people were faking the sexual acts, they decided to make it public.

If the chief mother was dead, they take the women who raised the want to be chief. May be the step mother or aunt. In general the women that the chief viewed as her mother. He doesn't chose by the community of old wise men will see and chose that women for the chief.

In their tribe story many first chiefs� wives made sure to die before they husband to avoid this ceremony. Some where committing suicide and throwing themselves in the deep water especially in the river Mukamba.
Unfortunately for Kifwebe and her mother, Kifewbe's father died inexpertly from his sleep.
Women had no right in the committee of wise or even be the chief of the village. If they look in the A children, no men qualified to be chief, then they go in the B children starting from the second wife. If in the chief family no one is qualify then they start looking for the chief in the disease chief nephews.

Kifwebe The chief had all time to ask question and plan his future from the information he will collect from the man from town. As usually the chief wear his traditional clothes made of skin of lion sign of supreme authority. The big Thatcher had all the chairs and all the things had a lions design. Include the cup. They were not using glasses in this village even for the beer they used the cup. Traditional cup made of burned clay or the modern cup. The wall was decorated by the lion's skin and teeth. The carpet was made of lion's skin.
The chief and all the news of the man from town and even the radio story. The radio story circulated so fast that all the village in few hours knew that Sello come with a while magic in the land. A peace of wood or box that sings and talk: "It is so painful that you arrived last week and don't even try to come to greet us."

Kifwebe was not only the chief of the village but he was like a father to Sello. Sello was friend to his children. They grow up together before even Kifwebe become a chief. It why Sello was shocked to witness in public Kifwebe succession to the throne, the incest ceremony. The father of his friends Bumba and Numgo.

Sello has to visit the chief early and he didn't do so: "I sincerely apologize chief that I didn't manage to come and greet you in time."
It was in his mind to come and visit Kifwebe. He comes a week ago but he has been very busy meeting many peoples and families members. He was always surrendered by many people whatever he goes. Every place he goes was full of people following him. He was hoping to come on Sunday to visit Kifwebe but after church they went to the traditional court where he spend many hours because he was given a role in that court.
The chief had the reports of all Sello did in his village: "I had a report that you come up with a very good suggestion from town?"
"It is not a suggestion from town chief, but also a very good suggestion for the village."

Those find guilty of various crimes especially witch craft must be punished in the different ways, like to help old people and community work. They have been loosing people to these practices for hundreds of years since their ancestors era but witchcraft never end up. They still have more witches than before. In towns they do not accept the witchcraft in modern courts. They judge do not take in consideration about your strange kind of dream dreams and illusions. They accept fact such us a proved poison, proved killing.
It was really by a pure coincidence he find himself in a court with one of the judge being punished and was given the role of replacing Pamo.

While chatting the servant brought the best beer in the land made from the maize.
The servant pours the beer in their two cups on her knee and after serving them without a words she disappear. Women had no say especially in the group of men.

"My son" the chief said "you have to know that this is village and we are sticking to tradition."

The court have made changed but the chief had to approve it so it may be a law. The chief word was already a law. Before they were waiting from the word of the tribal king to make it a law. But since the tribal king has fought with his brother, the leadership was divided.
They tribal kingdom of the Kambelembele was weak and the big villages start relying on their village chief and dignitaries.
Plus they have been numerous fight in the past villages against their neighbour. It helps also to cement the leadership of the local villager�s chief. They were view more than tribal king than simple a village.
The only things in common they had with the other villages were they same ancestors, same tradition and specially same prays, they kept calling they same ancestors and the same dialects.
Kifwebe was the last man who could have apposed to the suggestion. The villagers in the court law accepted that suggestion to be review to show respect to Sello who come to visit them after 20 years. If it was another man or dignitary trying to change the law it couldn�t have succeeded.
They accepted immediately to show that they were still considering the miners as their own.
At some stage, Sello couldn't believe how easily the villager accepted the law only one man Kalao is nephew had the courage to show his disagreement. He knew not that well his nephew but the nephew wasn't shy to confront his uncle.

For Kifwebe never the less he accepted Sello's suggestion of using those witches for the community work. Like Sello's father was very sick and need someone to take care of him. So those peoples find guilty will help the elders, sick people. But he wanted to review the decision with all the wise men in the village to review that decision but when the visitor will leave they land.
Kifwebe had a plan to build a school and hospital those guilty people they will build them. But he was vowed that even before they review that law or proposition the second time the will be burn them.
They knew that it is in town where lie the head of Satan and demons and his tail is the village. They were not committed to turn their ancestor's land in Satan play ground. The only way to do that is to stick to their ancestor's culture and avoid the town influences in they villages.

"I am very happy that you have accepted that suggestion." Sello said.

Sello was specially glad hearing that the chief plan to build the hospital and school in Kisangu. He knew that once the villagers built those facilities the priests and other organization will quickly support and find them. They didn�t have to wait for missionaries and priests to do all for them. They didn't have to wait for government to do that work for them. They have may be a very limited resources and villages are not their priority.

The chief never trust the government for them the government does not exist and they didn't even know the head of the all country. They lived on their own with their own traditional law: "Don't tell me that the government does not have money."

Kifwebe had applied since 15 years ago for the help regarding school and hospital when some rare government official visited they land. He kept remaining them every year for the next five years by the intermediary of correspondence given to priest but he didn't get any response.
But when a hunter pick up a diamond stones by accident next to the mountain Kizito, in few days they saw hundred of government official visiting that part of their land.
They saw all kings of people: blacks and white engineer, helicopters, they saw every tool landing in the middle of the forest. Fortunately for the villages around the sacred mountain Kizito, the archeologists didn't find a much larger quantity of the natural resources to be exploited.

When in Kumato, the popular village. In one of the lakes the fishes mystery died. They were hundred of government and expect on the scene to see what they suspected a natural gas in the water killing the fishes.
Fortunately, the gas that killed the fishes wasn't an industrial wanted gas.

When they have been a genocide in the village next to Kisangu in Jumba where the villagers were killing themselves and thousand died. The government didn't intervene to help to stop the fighting. It was by the courage of Kifwebe, the priests and the other neighboring dignitary that they reconcile the two fighting party.
For Kifwebe the government did not exist. The traditional law was the only law in their land.
For Kifwebe the government is more interested in mining. Every time they suspect of a natural resources in the land they pour in they land. Kifwebe regretted that if the colonists were still in power in Congo their village could be very developed.
Kifwebe felt that they rushed to gain independence for not knowing the consequences. For Kifwebe yes the colonists were rude in torturing the people and forcing them to work but it was for the sake of their land.

Kifwebe refused to encourage people to be lazy. He wanted everybody especially men to find a preoccupation every morning. Only sick people, children, old people and cooking women and were allowed to be in the village during the day. And men were allowed to rest Saturday and Sunday.

In others villagers many men spend time talking under the sun and waiting for women to do the work for them. They were making children and waiting for the women to raise them.
Since those laws, Kisangu become one of the prosperous village. They didn't experience shortage of food. They were able to help even their neighboring village.
The Kumato market was full of Kisangu product.

Kifwebe was shocked when he heard that in their country they still unable to make even a razor or even a needle, they have to export almost everything! In the colonist time they could see really that the World was moving and the future was so bright. If I was powerful enough I couldn't allow the colonist to return.
"Chief is a pity that we have been independent for 10 years now." Sello said "But we haven't done any thing significant."

Sello imagine all the years after the independence he has been in town he only saw two building being completed. They were not even able to maintain or fix the few infrastructures that colonist left to them. All the projects that colonists left unfinished still not completed. Once the government with the help of the foreign country built a simple bridge, it will be a talking of the media and radio for the entire year. "It painful that colonists loved more our country than we do."
"We spend a lot of time talking than doing actions."

Sello didn't see anything improving under their government, it why he was determined to try his best before he joins the ancestors (die) to build something for the community. Sello could bear the pain of seeing people walking for 20 kilometers for study and get a one pill of pain killer in Kumato.
He called the 10 years of independence they celebrated 2 months ago as 10 years of failure.
He vowed to support Kifwebe effort. His plan was really to make money and save enough money and come to retire in lovely land.

"It is really a pleasure to listen good idea from a young man like you." Kifwebe said "My hope is that you keep really your idea alive."

It was better to die in the land of ancestors. To live far from the land of ancestors was always a torture of the soul. It is why many villagers refused to live their villages and pursuit a life in town. They were happy with what they had and they were not unhappy to feel that they were poor.

They loved the sun and the sound of the animals and bird in they bushes. They didn't need label clothes but needed something to protect their body from the weather and protect they private part. They enjoyed walking in the land without food and enjoy they feel of the soil.

Kifwebe was a man of vision. He used to worry time to time how the future village will look like in the future. He told Sello to prepare his future from his present. It easy to talk but realizing is something very different to talking. In talking people may claim how they will transform their ancestor's land in modern city. Everything is possible with mouth but impossible in action. Action need resource, will, strength...He knew that Sello may not realize all by himself but the few things was to be an example and motivate future generation to complete his work.

Kifwebe wanted to talk to Sello for many reason. He begged Sello not to forget their village. Kifwebe was already in his seventy. A real old age in Africa. Many people die in their fifties to sixties in the environment where the body gets tired quickly.
All the physical works had impact on their bodies. All the hot local beer, all the animals and insects bites their endure day to day had a serious repercussion in their life.
The women lived much longer than men but with a high price. Most of the women already in their late thirties were already grand mother. They give birth from the age of 12 or 13 years and sometime in their early years they give birth one child each year. Not forgetting that sometime they may get twins or triplet a year. Already by the age of late twenty, they have numerous children. Many people by their late twenties were grand mothers. Many women in their late thirties and early fourties they were great grand mothers.
Kifwebe has seen already about the fifth generation of his children.
When Sello left the village it had about 3 500 people but after twenty years the population almost triple.

Kifwebe was old and felt the end of his reign approaching day to day. He stopped having long term project because he felt the ancestors calling him. The only way they felt their ancestors calling them was when they feel the weakness of their body. They start experiencing fatigue in their body.
He had more than thirty six children and about 108 grand children and great grand children. with different 7 different wives. He did really his life, he was not afraid of dying. In en environment where the life expectancy is low to reach seventy was a blessing.

Sello the man of town laughed a little bit a man talking of his many children and wives. He wondered how a normal man can make children as chicken. Really it seems that there was no respect to human life: "I understand my chief to what you are saying."

For Sello, there was not mission impossible but there was only mission difficult. He wished that God give him many years like Kifwebe so he will realize his dreams. For Sello Africa was still live in the village and Africa was dying in the big town where people were loosing the African culture. The colonist left without being given a chance to complete their job in reaching all the rural area. They had a plan for each and every corner of the land.
Kifwebe refused to ask him about the radio. He didn't want to give the impression that it was one of his priorities. He let the man of town leave without mentioning it. Kifwebe had another thing in mind, he didn't ask Sello when he was leaving the village but heard already the information.

He didn't have a special intelligence service but the dignitaries were reporting the information from various people and later give the chief all the information.

Wednesdays at around six in the evening, Sello saw a messenger who comes to deliver a message to Sello. The chief of the village wanted him for the supper.
The first thing come into his mind was that he saw the chief no so longer ago. Why the chief wanted him immediately.
He decided to take Kalao to accompany him at the chief lately permanent home, his second wife home.
Kalao felt blessed to accompany his uncle at the chief's house. He never enters before the chief's house. He knew that he will see lion's skins because many hunter's when they kills the lions, they keep the lion's skin and the lion's teeth for the chief.
He wasn't disappointed to see the lion's carpet, the lion's skin on the wall and every thing were designed with the lion body. He admired endlessly the well designed room and hoped that he couldn't have been born in the family of the chief to own this kind of house.

Kalao was blessed to see the chief face to face. He rarely sees him the chief. He used to come Sunday to the court carried by four people on a big chair. But the he has been hit by fatigue of age and was becoming very rare in the public places.
The chief daughter served the two guess with the local maize beer. Kalao was too shy of the uncle or scared of the uncle. He refused to drink alcohol and asked for a fruit juice and he was served.
Kalao admired the chief's daughter Suki who was single and was just thirteen years old. He hoped to catch her by the river but his uncle was about to leave with him to town.
He wanted to see how life in town was but he was mourning already Kisangu the land of his ancestors. He was missing already the traditional choir where he was a member for about 6 years. It was a big choir with about 300 peoples and beautiful young women now Suki was on his mind.
The chief entered the room after 20 minutes and greeted the guest by their name: "I am gald to meet you Sello and Kalao."
Kalao felted blessed and honour when the number one man in the land called his name. He wondered how the chief know his name out of thousands of people in the village.
The thought was that the messenger when come to report back to the chief has whispered that Sello was coming with his nephew Kalao.
For Kalao, the chief talked with ancestors and he knew every body.
There were many myths about the chief's life in the village. The young were told that Kifwebe talks with ancestors. The ancestors tell him who is going to die. The ancestors talk to him every time. He was able to read the past and the future of everybody.
He wasn't only a human who eat and goes to the toilet but was also a living ancestors in the land of human.
They called the chief and dignitaries as man of fours eyes meaning the have 2 physical eyes and two spiritual eyes. In the spiritual eyes they see what many people do not see.
Sello presented Kalao to the chief: "This is my nephew son of my sister Fonfon, I am taking him to town to help me to make money and be able to save more money for Kisangu."

"That is good my son. I also heard that you come to fetch also your father Tata."
"I initially wanted to see my village and my peoples not forgetting my family."

He didn't want to sound like he comes first to fetch the sick father. It will show a less interest of the village. He wanted to prove that the village stills his priority and he never forgot the village even thought he left the village many years ago.
Of course he planned to return every year but they were many unpredictable circumstances. First the five years he left the village he didn't have a good job in town. Even thought the fourth years he started working for a mine contractor but didn't have a good position to make more money.
He started working for a contractor to the mining. They job was to deliver tool for the mines. He used to travel a lot in a old tractor with tool needed in the mines. He took him about 7 years before hearing that there were recruiting miners.
Then it took him a full year for training even thought they were paid for their training. He already wasted 4 years as jobless doing all sort of jobs in the market carrying people vegetable and good every morning and every afternoon. They were sleeping in the market too. Then plus 7 years of working for a contractor then one year of training. In total 12 years were gone without getting opportunity. Then when he started working full time although he was already married.
It took him 2 years to buy everything he wanted and start thinking about going back home for a visit. But it coincided with the Mulele eruption. The mobile guerrilla that amputated hands and legs of the civilized people.
It was difficult to travel to the rural area without a military escort. The feared guerilla group didn't have the powerful weapon they use the guns with machete...
The governmental troops tried to finish them off but they fail. The guerilla fighter disappear and erupt in different places. It only in the last two years that the government tried to contain them but still they were returning always with force.
Once they look like defeated, they come with huge vengeance attacking the militaries and civilian. The blamed the civilize people for not supporting them because they were mainly villagers. When they were defeated they return with a huge anger and amputate the civilized people without no merci.
It was always a torture of soul to live far from your land. Sello had sometime no news from his village. Every time he was wondering how are his loved one?
Sello believed that his father once he get access to the advanced medicine in town, he may be able to live for more than 10 years but if he leave him in Kisangu he won't live for another year.
His decision really to take also my nephew come little bit late. In fact he definitely made up his mind in Kisangu seeing a courage man who has just graduated from the boys to men ceremony hanging around in the village while he knew how to read and write. This was a man according to Sello to live in town and help him in his business he wanted to open before he says good bye to the dangerous work in the mines.
Sello was vowed to train (teach) Kalao. He want to open a small activity in town but wasn't sure which one yet but he had a tendency of open a shop.
His work was very dangerous with good money. Every time he goes into the mine, he wasn't 100% sure that he may return alive at home. It was like going into the war everyday. Every miner was waiting for his death day.
Sello has even developed bad dreams. Even when he was off he kept dreaming about the atrocity of the mines. The falling rocks and the soil burying his colleagues. All the sad accident happening in the mines were always on his mind. People crying and screaming of the pain. Paramedic taking his dead colleagues and friends.
He told the short story of how dangerous was his job.
The chief lighted is small traditional cigar. Then he coughed. He was touched to hear those stories. He looks at many lion's skin in his house and felt bad. He loved the lions the king of the forest. The lions have killed many hunters and villager even thought he was sitting on top of his skin. The lion's skin was sign of success. Many people even with their modern weapon have succumbed to the best predator lion. He was gently shaking the head skin of the lion in which he was sitting on. He realized that Sello's job was also very dangerous but tried to ignore the pain he felt in his heart:

"Really your father is my friend is 12 to 15 years younger to me."

They didn't know the exact birth date but they used to estimate.
Tata Sello's father has a long life a head of him. But it painful to see him sick not unable to walk properly. He has stop doing what all the villager do everyday: farming, hunting, fishing or wasn�t able to do any physical work for some years now. The rural ordinary task and preoccupation needed physical strength. They had no offices work were people sit in they chairs and work with months and papers.
Even the respected elders who were part of the village�s ruling, part of the traditional court, part of the decision making used to work like everybody else and take opportunity in the evening or weekend to makes decision.
Tata used to stay in village along with small children and few women who were cooking.

They tried they traditional medicine but they fail even to identify his disease may be the modern medicine in town will succeed according to Kifwebe. He thinks also the spontaneous death of Sello's mother Connie Vuka is affecting him.
He was furious that Sello didn't come to his mother's funeral, everybody were there except Sello. They don't miss funerals of family's members it was inexcusable.
"Really, it was painful."

Sello had the news after two months of his mother's death. Even if he wanted to come to the funerals he couldn't have make it. It takes not hours to travel from Leonville to Kisangu but it takes many day. And they were not keeping long the dead body in the village where they had no conservation or fridges. But he did the mourning in town, many people come to see me: my colleagues, friends come to comfort me.

Jeane Sello's wife and many relatives cried endlessly without even seen the dead women.
The African where very emotional able to cry and mourn even someone they never meet before. They mourned Sello's mother like if they knew her and loved her while they haven't even seen her picture.
Sello was given a week leave to remember and mourn her mother.
"I am happy to hear that you did something to remember your mother." Kifwebe said.

Kifwebe missed Connie Vuka and the community misses her too. Kifwebe remember how she was involved in the community. She is the one who used to organize the different parties here. She used to mobilize young women and show them how to cook. She is really irreplaceable my son.

Sello insisted: "I miss her everyday. I hope to make another daughter to name after her mother may be able to inherit her character."

They believed that the name given to children will unable them to inherit they characters. In the African tradition the first boy and the first girl are name after the husband's parents or people who raised him.
Sello wasn't sure that he will have many children like the villagers but he was convinced that he will name the coming children after his parent. He was planning to have only five or six children.

He named the first woman Shona because it was the name of the first female ancestors of the Kambelembele they tribe and also his uncle's wife Bwalya who is Sello's only role model was named also Shona. They used to call her in their ancestors' pray. He hoped to get blessing from that woman who was so courageous and very carrying.
Bwalya was the name of his maternal uncle. There is an event that happens when Sello was about 10 years ago. They were in a boat and Bwalya was teaching him how to capture the fishes.
But there was a huge water wave that lasted about 30 minutes. Bwalya who was about 40 years old and had no boy took Sello like is own child. He had 6 girls but no boy.
In that wave something happen Shona lost control of the boat. Shona decided to die instead of letting Sello die. He thrown with all his power
Sello out of the sinking boat.
He hoped that Sello once at the near land will manage to swim and be saved.
He was left with the boat trying to direct it but couldn't. Sello managed to swim but it wasn't that near the dry land. He drank plenty of water and even lost conscience. He wakes up surrender by many fish men who have fought for many minutes hitting his stomach and helping him to vomit the water.
Sello managed to swim about 300 meters but was tired he was not reaching the dry land and didn't even meet any fisher around. The fish men who were in a boat running away from that unusual wave next to him, saw a man's clothes sinking. Sello has been already sinking and lost conscience at that time. All the fish men were very good and excellent swimmers.
Jambo the big fish men managed to grab him with one hand and one hand he was fast controlling the boat. He arrived at the border with the help of other fish men who have escaped the wave and together they managed to bring Sello to life.

The fish men knew which time to get in the water and which time to get out. They knew all the dangerous storm...But this was unusual, it was a small earth quake that happen inexpertly. Sello and Bwalya where at the wrong time and at the wrong place. Bwalya body has never been recovered.
This event changed Sello's wife. He took him two years to get back in the water and he swore to name his two first born after his uncle Bwalya and his wife Shona who was still alive.

Sello's mother and father all agreed to remember Bwalya before he ventured to town. They sat many time and all were grateful for Bwalya gesture and the will of saving his nephew. What was important was the will of Bwalya. If Bwalya had no intention of wanting Sello is nephew to live, Jambo the fish men could have never seen him alive. It is that wish that created a coincidence that Jambo find himself next to the sinking body.
They believed that a wish and a strong will can make miracle. No one could have accepted that Jambo find himself next to Sello in the big part of the river where you sometime see the sky meeting the river at all the side of the river when your are in the middle of it.
It was Bwalya wish and will that saved Sello.
In those instances it was important to break sometime their traditional and family's rule.
Sello was planning too to name one of his future son as Jambo who passed away about 10 years ago from a natural disease. He in his fifties when he died.
He bought some clothes for this fish man, when he arrived in Kisangu he had the sad news. He gave two trousers, 2 shirts and a short to his son. He was always thankful to many people who help me grow and saved his life.
In their culture they believe that a child belong to the community like a tree growing and everybody watering it. Every villager contributes to the growth of the children in the village.

Kifwebe had the sad story. It was before he becomes the chief. He was just an ordinary villager that time who was respected as the son of the chief and possibly the future chief.
He attended to Shona funeral. He was glad to hear that Sello still remember his uncle and uncle's wife. It was the right thing to do.
The chief had another think in mind: "My son before I let you go. I really wanted to ask you something. Chief, tell me I will see how I may be able to help or assist."
I had by rumors that you have brought some white magic.
I know only white magic in technology. I don't know what you really mean.
Sello thought that the chief who used to consult many traditional witches wanted some kind of magic to maintain his life and high dignitary in the village but was surprise to hear:
I heard that you brought a small peace of wood talking like one of the priest in the market village Kumato.

The villager who heard the radio had the impression that one of the priest who used to visit them and lives in Kumato was talking. The priest knew to talk the Kambelembele dialect but they had a strong French accent because they were white. And the visiting white talks French and in the radio they talked only French.
"Yes they called it radio."
"Yes radio."
The man hesitated to the chief demand: "Chief it is a new technology even in town."

Radio was precious to Sello it was a new technology still in the Africans town. It was costly and many people in towns too didn't have any. He was sure that very new technology will reach the village in a year or so.
My son, I cannot wait for a long time to hold that technology.

Kifwebe was the chief Kisangu and he must be able to get the new technology before everyone else. He was sure that Sello may get another radio in town easily. Sello had shown no guaranty to return to Kisangu soon. He come in Kisangu after twenty years and he may return after twenty years again if he is still alive.

Sello wanted to leave the radio to Kaloa mother is sister who took care of Tata is father and all the family. It was a surprise gift he hide too. He knew that a day before he leave he may get the new of the political development in the country and possible know the location of the Mulele guerilla.
"Listen, I will send twenty cows to sisters." the king said "I need that small thing more than your uncle."
Sello realized that the chief so desperate for the new technology how can he give twenty cows for a something costing less five cows in town. He agreed:

The offer was good but he didn't want to disappoint Kifwebe. The small radio may get broken anytime chief! It need to buy batteries every time. But the battery where popular in Kumato market because it was sold for the torches that was popular in the land too.
"Your are my son." the king said "Twenty cows for me is nothing to me, I have some thousand cows."
"You may take it on your own risk. It may get broken anytime so once is broken please send it to town so it get fixed.
I will do that my son."

Kifwebe wish was really to be the first person to owe the new technology here even for one hour. The chief must be the first person to have everything. Kifwebe was very unlucky to be the twelfth person to own a bicycle here but he don't regret because he has more than twenty bicycles now.
He already talked with the priests, he was willing in six months a walking house (car)�The priests has asked him to give them about 100 lion's skin and 200 skins of crocodile for a car and he collected already 93 lion's skin for a car and had 187 crocodile skins.
It was easy to get the crocodile skin in Kisangu but the villagers were not killing the crocodiles and Hippopotamus in Kisangu. They believed that once they hurt those animals in they land the animals will start revenging in killing the human.
They make sure that the crocodiles and hippopotamus do not even see their skin. They hide those animals� parts from those animals.
They didn't care only for the unfriendly animals such us the wild animals and the domestic animals.
So they fish men and hunter kills those animals far from KIsangu sometime at 30 to 50 kilometers away from Kisangu.
The priests and no car yet but Vatican has blessed them with tree cars that was on their way to Africa. One has to be for Kifwebe the chief. One for the chief of Kumato and one their. They were hoping to buy more cars with the deal from the chiefs.
Lion's skins and crocodile�s skin were a fortune in Europe. Even in town, the shoes made from the crocodile skin were expensive.
Sello wanted also to show to the chief what he has in town:
That is good chief. I bought a television in town; I am the first one to have a T.V in my neighborhood in town.
"What is T.V?" Kifwebe said.
"It is like a radio with image."
"What?"
"A radio where you can see images of people?"
"I want that one too you must send me, I will give you more cows to your family."
"Chief, that one need a special aerial to catch the images."
"I want it, even if he doesn't work. It will work later when the technology will reach my area"
"I will send you a T.V once I return to town chief."
"I will wait for your response." Kifwebe said "Not response but I will wait for that T.V.I am the chief here, I have to have everything here."

When Sello and Kalao returned home they find already that the chief has delivered already twenty healthy cows. The wondered how the animal reached their sister house before their arrival?
They remembered that when they were eating the chief disappeared for a bout two minutes that is meant that he gave order to his servant or anyone for the immediate delivery of the animals.

CHAPTER FIVE :BAKUA-ALLER: PEOPLE ON THE MOVE

After tree weeks in Kinsagu, Sello took is nephew and is sick father for town. They did a good bye party inviting all members of the big family, neighbors and many friends. The big loss for the village was the young Kalao who was 17 years old. Many girls who were wishing to be married by the young and popular Kalao saw they dream vanished.
He has just graduated from the traditional initiation school boys to men. The passport to manhood and the passport to marriage. Many Kalao's friends were also present to say good bye to Kalao.

Kalao was little bit confused but happy to go to town and experience a very different and new life. Kalao was also a very good singer; he was member of the church and traditional choir singing in many weddings and other festivities in the village. About 300 the traditional choir�s members were also there to say also good bye to their loved friends. The elders come also to bless the people who were leaving. For Sello's father it was just a medical trip. I was not so exited but he was anxious to meet Sello's wife and their two children. He didn't have any reason to live in town after his recovering.
The ceremony took place at Sello's father outside house.
It started at around 6 in the afternoon and to end at about midnight.

With a fresh air from the river Mukamba blowing about 1500 villagers gathered to that place. Next to the short cut bushes, they brought with them the chairs to seat or peace of big trees. They brought with them the various traditional beers and food to eat together and celebrate this moment.

It coincided with the moon lighting the ceremony.
The elder of Sello clan Sulisa who people estimated that he was almost hundred years old took the speech first and blessed the people on the moves. He was already blind and couldn't talk properly, trembling he said: "�I am very old now and I feel that my ancestors are calling for me �I take this opportunity that may be the last one to bless you all my children�May Leza, the God of the ancestors protect you and bless you in all things that you do. May everything that you touch turn gold. In my power as the elder in the family I break all the devil plans of our enemies�"

He took a glass of water drink then gave to the tree travelers: Tata, Sello and Kaloa after they had drink he pours the water on the soul. Sello needed a blessing the road was dangerous not only the state of road but the guerilla group Mulele who sometime ambushes the cars. But he didn't want to tell the two travelers because they could fear to travel. Sulisa continued: "My children I bless you. All your future is clear. Please don't forget your culture and ancestors �I am just very tired now I live to other members of the community to continue the ceremony."

People in the community were watching the family ceremony and were pleased with what they were hearing and see. Young curious one was on top of the trees watching.
They were no microphones but people who were closer to the traveller were the near (proach) relatives. The relative has the right to hear and even talk.

One of Sello member of clan killed a chicken in presence of everybody and took the fresh blood and gave to the tree travelers to drink. He turned around in praying to the ancestors in a singing tune and dancing moving a kind of broom: "God (Leza) father of father. God the creator of heaven and health, the beginning and end. God of our ancestors, God of this village Kisangu and his people. We ask you through this traditional ceremony to keep and protect your children. May everything they touch really turn in gold and full of success."

They wanted the 3 traveler to return, die and be buried in the land of their ancestor's. They were breaking all plans of bad peoples: witches, jealous. They were crushing all devil plans. They believed that God is the same and they call him God of time: God of the past, God of present and God of future. They wanted God plans to be upon the tree traveler. They all know that God plans are to see the traveler to die in the land of their ancestors.
They call the God of future time and circumstance and time lead his children for a better future. They success will definitely be their success too. They always says in Kisangu a success of one member is the proud of their village, their ancestors, they clans even their neighbours, the childhood friend. In general it is the success of all the community. It is why they were proud of their names. They rarely take nicknames. Names were their culture, village and ancestors identities.
The villagers of Kisangu have been left behind by many communities now is time of success. They were relying a lot on the neighbouring village Kumato. They had no school, no hospital, and no reliable road too. The few roads they had are the main road and the other foot step road relied the village to their farms and neighboring villages�
Then the family took turn in singing and dancing. They shared food with many villagers. Sign of a collective celebration.
Fonfon mother spend most of the time weeping. She was loosing her boy Kaloa. She didn't know how he will be living in town. But she wanted too her son to get more opportunity that she had.
She knew that Kalao will be respected too as Sello one day.

After the clan ceremony Sello made a short speech:
It is a privilege to be here. Every moment here was very special. I thank the community for welcoming me in this land of ancestors. You have been with me and you always be with me. I don't know how to describe my gratitude.

Home was always the best place. There is no better place that home. In their tradition they say that a bird can fly around but it always return on the ground. Living far from your home is always a torture of soul. In town they don't have those special moments like here.
Sello at some stage was living next to a European. He had plenty of trouble. He was not even allowed to slaughter a goat for his birthday party. He remembered how he was taken to court for killing animal. After many battle they allowed him to kill the animal without giving many pain. And that was really against his belief.
The animal�s right gave him a tuff time.
It why even in Leonville he decided to leave the suburb were they were many whites people and choose to live in suburb were they were black because they were tolerating the African customer.
He remember that in that suburb well respected with big houses sometime he didn't even know the name of his neighbors. But in the African suburb he knew everybody. In the white suburb the neighbours used to come to complain: noise... but in the Africans suburb they join you and celebrate.
Kisangu was very special everybody is part of the big extended family. They always share what they have with everybody: pain and joy.

Sello loved Kisangu, the African culture while in town the African culture was dying.
Sello didn't want to make promises. He said that he was going to town with his father to help him to get access to the modern medicine. Kumato hospital was very poor. For Sello his 60 years father was still too young to join ancestors (die) now.
He told the villagers that he was taking Kalao the boy that they loved for giving him new opportunities in town. He was very sorry for the pain he cause caused. He knew that Tata his father will return soon after the medication. He knew that he won't like the life in town but he promised to make sure that the villagers see Kalao and him often than possible at least once a year.
Deep inside him he knew Kalao had some commitments Kisangu. He didn't know much, he knew that Kalao has targeted some women or even one girl has broke his heart and wanted to get married too. He wanted to respect that Kalao commitment; he didn't want to be an obstacle in his nephew's life. He begged the community to be patient and to please pray for them that his plan for Kisangu be materialized and those dreams to be a reality.
Life in town is more challenging rural area. He prayed day and night that God helps me to come, retire and die in his lovely land and people that he loved.
He thanked the group of men who were following him and all their sacrifice they made for his family and himself in general. He thanked all the wise and people in the traditional court who respected him and accepted his suggestions. He thanked all the women who assisted his sister Fonfon to cook and help him. He felt that he was a king and welcome to his homeland. It was not easy to leave again the land where he was born.
Sello if he had a choice he could stay forever in Kisangu. He thanked too the elder of his clan for coming here despite their body's weakness, he thank everybody for this unforgettable moment that they made possible�
The choir sang a song. Those traditional songs were quiet long while the public sang along. They last more than 20 minutes a song. They had the passion in singing them while Kalao was missing already those songs.

Tata has been struggling lately because of the disease. It affected his feet, his eyes, and his speech. For many days he thought that the ancestors are calling him (die). But he had an uncompleted dream to see Sello's children named after Shona and Bwalya.
He was glad when Sello returned without any notice and hoped that he has brought his children with him but Sello didn't.

He has seen all his 17 grand children. He prayed for many days that the ancestor postponed little bit the death so his dream be possible. And it was on his way to be accomplished. He was leaving the village for town where the grand children are based.
"�I thank you for coming here and make this moment so special." Tata said "Without you this moment couldn't have been possible�You all know my state of health�I never dreams to go to town far away from my family and my wives. I don't like to live in town�My home is this village Kisangu"

Tata pray is to live and die in this Kisangu. I told many times Sello to make sure that he sends his body in Kisangu here if he dies in town. His dream is to be back as soon as possible. I will respect the instructions of the doctors. He took this opportunity to see the children of Sello who are his grand children because they have his blood. He was happy too to meet also his daughter in law Jeanne who joined also their family.
In their tradition the woman do not marry a man but she marry her husband culture and his tradition.

Marriage is links, Jeanne may be unknown to villager but she was also part of their family even though she is from another tribe. Tata wanted to make sure that next time Jeanne comes to visit Kisangu too.
Tata with desperately sad: "�I have to go to town try some new medicine. I am feeling so weak, here we tried to go to all traditional doctors and even the priest�s hospital fails to heal me."
Tata felt that he had a role to play and contribute in his community. He relied on prayers. He concluded: "To all my friends and family here be strong I personally feel that I will return healed and be able to go to farm again. I will see you very soon, I won't accept to die in others people land�"
Everybody wanted to hear what Kalao had in mind too. He was not expecting to leave this land it just a big surprise for him. He remembers that his mother Fonfon was telling him story about his courageous uncle Sello. When Sello arrives in the village he had no idea that he will be leaving with him. He studied 4 years in Kumato and had a change to hear a lot about town. He was going there to try to make a living.

It was painful for him to leave his choirs, his friends and family. He hoped he will use those people that he love to motivate him to return often home. He hoped that he won't take 20 years long to return. He insisted: "Keep writing to me via the priests." Kalao said "I will be very happy to read you far from home and those correspondences will make my days there. I will try all the best to write to you once I get the opportunity. I miss you already �Please be strong but put us in your prayers."

He needed the community support. For him home will be always the best place. He look at the trees around and couldn�t believe that he was leaving those trees that he used to climb when he was a kids searching for bird and playing with friend. The only think that makes him happy his traveling with his grand father. He was decided to take care personally care of his grand father as his uncle will be often at work.

He concluded: "My love for you and your love for me is just too strong for me to be away for long time�"
Fonfon the mother of Kalao who is the sister to Sello took also the opportunity to talk: "I thank you all �I thank also the elder here for giving me the opportunity to talk."

She wanted to be very short because their culture do not allow the women to talk in a group were there are man.
She wept for a while before she continues: "I really wish that Tata, our father get well soon. I will also tell my brother Sello to take care of his nephew who is going to help him."

She was a woman and she didn't want to say that Sello's wife is not good women. In their culture they says that all the women are the same: tall, short, big or slim, white or black, educated to none educated, rich or poor because they have the same women instinct.
Fonfon knew those women are all the same regardless their origin. They have all the same character. Fonfon was convinced that they will be time when the woman may try to put Sello conflict with Kalao. She addressed his brother in public: "Please use in those circumstances your man authority to solve the matter balancing both sides not to hurt your wife or your nephew. Sello you are the chief of the house. I am expecting a lot from you."
She turned to Kalao and told him: "Kalao, me your mother who bear you for 9 months in me, I please beg you to listen to your uncle and his wife instructions. I feel so sad that your leaving your community. I am happy that your friends are showing love to you. Please don't forget them and don't forget your family too."

Kalao have been appreciated and loved by many people, they were expecting a lot from him. A young man who haven't been in conflict with anyone and was stick to their culture.
Her mother insisted: "Please don't disappoint us. I am getting old, I don't have much to live for, I wanted to advise you to come to visit us often. When time will come to get married please take one of the women in your choir here or one a woman in this village."

Fonfon was scared that Kalao may loose their ancestor's values if he interact with other culture. Living without a culture is to be a dead man walking. Tradition is the identity of each and anyone. It is a big identity more than an ID book. Id book was a peace of paper that can get burn or lost but culture is part of the soul.
Fonfon wanted her grand children to grow up like they grew Kalao�

After those words the choir sang a popular song to say good bye to those tree people, especially Kalao:

What I did to you.
What I did so wrong to you.
Here you are going leaving me. There is no another you, because you are unique as every body is unique. Who is the one who will replace you?
Good bye.
Good bye. You are living me worrying.
Good bye. Traveling is like a death.
Good bye. I don't know if we will meet again.
My hand waves you.
Tears are the witness of my heart's pain.
Good bye, the shortest word that mean a lot.
I watch you going as you get in your transport.

Chorus: Motorcar accomplices of my pain
Airplane accomplices of my misery
Motorcar accomplices of my pain
Airplane accomplice of my misery

Some people are going in trip business.
Some people are going in studies trip.
Some people are going for tourism trips.
Some people are going for various reasons of trips.
But you all have one thing in common: good bye.

Many people lost their lovers because of trips.
Many people lost their souvenirs because of trips.
Many people lost belongings because of trips.
Many people lost their interest because of trips.
But you all have some thing in common: good bye.

Voyage you take my love one away.
Travel you take my love one like your cousin death.
Voyage you take my friend away.
Travel you broke up our love without any wrong.

Oh car you are the big accomplice of my misery.
Oh let me cry airplane accomplice of my loneliness.
Oh let me worry distance accomplice of missing you.
Oh let me cry circumstances accomplice of this pain I am feeling.

Many people couldn't hold their tears at the words of this song. Even big peoples were really weeping. The community members hugged the 3 people who were living.
The traveler went to sleep with the blessing of the community. At around 5 in the morning about 5 peoples come to accompany the travelers.
They took they bags and took a small boat to cross the river Mukamba. The river at some side was very big but they use the short side of the river to cross it.
Mukamba takes all the waters for the surrounding rivers and throw it to the river Congo. Then Congo throws the water in the Pacific Ocean.

Then the five villagers after crossing carried their bag for Kumato where they can get transport. This 20 kilometers road was used by many villagers. It is in Kumato that they children study, goers for modern medical attention and everybody goes to shop there in the exchanger market.
They were related because they were from the same tribe and all speaks the Kambelembele. All the villagers have relative there.

Kalao walked hearing the sound of the animals, endless insects and bird hoping to hear those sound soon.
Kalao knew very well this road and was even able to describe it. He knew all the small bridges made of big trees and all the corner of this road, all the hills. Because many people used this foot road, it even becomes bigger at about 2 meters big. The grasses and the trees were not growing to it because many people walk on it. It becomes a natural road without digging.
Even wild animal were not walking close of this road because people were walking there each time. It become even little safe.
Sometime the hunted small animal by predators runs to this road for cover. It was a human territory not animal territory. It becomes a village at his own.

PART ONE :THE TRUCK

It was Kumato the market place where they had to catch transport.
It was Monday just one day before the market that takes place only Tuesday.
The market was taking place at a big ground, size of about 5 football stadiums.
Sometime more than 20 thousand villagers from different villages around will gather at this place for the exchanges.
Some people and traditional group come to display their talent on this market taking place from six in the morning to six in the afternoon.

Some churches trying to get more followers send they preacher too to preach at this place.
Some political parties from town too send people to campaign at this place. But those speakers must speak the Kambelembele only the only language spoken in this area.

Some time more than 200 hundreds businessmen from town come to exchange too.
Sometime the villagers exchange thing among themselves. For example if you have maize you can exchange to the one who has meat.

Kisangu villagers were the one who always come with plenty of stuff.
During the week about only thousand people exchange they stuff at this place.
They arrived there around 10 hours in the morning. They were walking quiet slowly because of Tata. Normally the villagers walk for only 2 to 3 hours the 20 kilometers.

The people who accompanied them returned back to the village Kisangu.
This village was more big and more civilized than Kisangu it is here the priest are living and they have a big market were people from more than 30 villages surrender are going to make most of their exchange.

Many business men from the town are coming to change products farms products. The most products in exchange are soaps, salt, sugar, clothes in exchange to farming products: maize, rice, potatoes�Some luxury technology: bicycles, the radios were not in used in this area yet, hunting guns and bullets for modern hunters, This village have a school, an hospital and big soccer ground. But the market place was the well known place.

Many people from other villagers come to Kumato to see the nurses and doctors for the modern medicine once the traditional medicine fail to heal. Some even sleep in the hostel if they arrived in the late evening so they may see in the doctors and nurses the following days.
Some nurses from Kumato where also send in other big villages around to help some sick people. The big villages around had one day when the have to meet the nurses who takes care of small cases of disease and applying medicine on small wounds include some vaccination of children.

This hospital was very busy receiving more than one tree hundred people a day. It was also financed and supported by international organizations and red cross. The government contributed with small and irregular money. The priest and missionary were also contributing but were in charge of the administration.

The school was also very busy too. Some classrooms were in the old buses. Few classrooms were built with bricks and many were under the trees. The rain was also a big challenge for the classes� rooms. The school was administrated and mainly sponsored by priests. The community with the help of the traditional authorities were motivating volunteer to build.
They were no specific ages in the classrooms. Some of the people were eight years old in grade one along side with people who were in their teen and few in their twenty's. The teachers were recruited in the nearest town and all the priests were also teachers; include some missionaries and their wife. Most of the missionaries and priests were from Europe and few were Africans.
The students were mostly from the surrender villagers and others were from Kumato. Some students who were in Kumato were also from others villagers but living with families relatives and families friends in Kumato. The school had some 1500 students in more than 50 classrooms.
Many ordinary people in Kumato had some relatives in town compare to very few and rare people from Kisangu. Many businessmen had some wives in town and other wives in Kumato.

Kumato had a governmental representative who represented the government ineffective in the all area. The traditional administrative was more effective than the governmental administration. The governmental administration had less than 3 policemen and about 10 volunteers� police officers for the all area of more than 30 villagers. The volunteers enjoyed the work and were expecting to be hired but some has been volunteers for about 5 years. They enjoyed the respect they had in the community.
The truth is that those volunteer were registered in the Leonville and Kinshasa as policemen but the generals were taking their money. They were not alone. Thousand of volunteer were known as employee while the generals were eating their money.

It was not only in the army that this was happening but in many governmental departments includes education, hospital...

Those police were not even equipped compare to the police officers in town. The hardly had the uniforms. Some lucky polices officers were wearing only the police shirt and civilians clothes. But they were very respected by the villager.

If the have to be a war for example with the local people or local hunter the police could be crushed unless if they ask for more police officers from town. But I wonder how long the officers from town may have the news may be after weeks because they were not communications materials or regular transport to town.

It always takes days to get the report from the administration in town never the less the government was very neglecting the villagers. I have the impression the never looked at the report from villages unless if it is big fight such us families revenges, tribes fights or different villages fights were the government may intervene after a big casualties and after the damage is done.

The tree men who are going to town: Sello, Kalao and the father of Sello called Tata sometime Papa that mean father. They went in the small hostel in the village. They had to wait for next morning to try to find some trucks that are going to town. Sometimes the can find a truck that is full or not in a very good condition so they could probably wait in this village for more days. Sello was always in rush he had to return one week time to work to avoid a possible punishment at work.

The cost of the hostel and transport was very cheap in the area. The where no buses transport as the state of the road was terrible. The buses used as classes were trailed from town and send by the government years ago.

More than 300 hundreds hut were used as guest houses or hotel. What was good in this village is that all the guest house hotel were owned by villagers. And they were all in one are.
The villagers from other villages were using it as also hotel. Those who had many merchandize and refused to return to their village after the Tuesday market.
They will stay with these merchandise in this town up to month and finish them exchanging. Most living in those guest houses were those trading the African art or craft. It was a big fortune and they were affording to live in these hotels for many days or months. Some of them make them their second home and hiring even their second wives.

The majority of occupiers were businessmen. When it used to be full to capacity especially in November when many businessmen from town pour in the city to buy agriculture products preparing for December feast in town: Christmas and New Year. The majority of the hut are even booked in advance.

The bad news for Kumato and their tradition is that many businessmen who come some turn to prostitution. The prostitute of towns has found a place where to make money. Their clients were the other businessmen and some curious villagers too also tasted the civilized woman.
The duty business takes place only at night. The prostitute were not walking semi naked in the area where the hut hotel where situated but were hiring their hut and share with other prostitute.

They were selling local beer and modern beer from town but most of the beer was traditional. It was cheap and more effective with a lot of alcohol.
The businessmen brought many independent churches from town and those who were not Christian had wives and houses in town and some turn to prostitution.
The evangelist businessmen were using a suitable gospel brought by missionaries suitable for this underprivileged region. That gospel was that the poor will inherit the kingdom of God not the rich men. The only think they ignored is that the villagers were not poor or rich but they were happy people.
They were not paying rent because they build their 2 rooms to even four rooms Thatcher without spending money. They were not renting. They didn't need label clothes but only wanting any thing to protect their body.
They didn't need to go to school or university their culture was a big school already.
They didn't need radio or television. They didn't need to catch airplanes they relatives and friend lived around. They loved to walk. They were not lazy, they were able to make living with they activities: farming, fishing, agriculture, making craft...
They didn�t have the pressure and town need. They were more than happy; they were not rich or poor.

The sad part of the African culture is that slowly some few local women too were joining the women from town in prostitution too.

The slept there for a night in the early in the morning Sello wake up around 4 hours in the morning and went to the truck station to search for a transport but didn't find. He returned to their hostel but decided return at around nine hours in the morning to check.

Sello took a hut for his father to rest while he took Kalao and have a look of the preparation for the Tuesday market.
What was good here is that people could leave their products in a space without no one coming to steal.
They find already some product left by their owner on many self made table. It was build with branches. It was able to lift up the stock so all the people passing will have a look. Some of those tables were hired by people from town to expose their products.
Many villagers were arriving with their products. They could hear the noise of few isolated people here and there exposing their product.

Sello felt bad that the villager has to exchange a soap that was almost free in town to many kilos of maize and other agriculture product.
Those businessmen were making more than thousand percent profit from the ignorant villagers.
Soap, salt, sugar and few clothes were exposed each and every day. They were the daily need for all the villagers.

Then they went to the truck station. It was just at the beginning of the market. It was also a big place with about 20 permanent broken trucks. Those just beyond repair. They had no part remaining, all the body and part were taken to repair others trucks. And the body or car and metallic roof were mostly used to make the traditional fry stand and pots.
Some businessmen bring the metallic part of vehicle and metallic roof to be used by the traditional artist. They make pot from the argil and they have improved in using the metal to make also metallic materials.

Those pot made by the villager were in demand. They were strong and very heavy.

They find many trucks being repaired. And many trucks entering the garage under the sun. For Sello who lived in town for many years had the impression that many of the truck look at like the post World War One truck. Many look at like post Hitler era, renovated truck.
Sello knew that the road to town was too long and needed to return to work before being in trouble.
One truck was available and was about to leave but Sello refused to take that truck because the condition of the truck by appearance was scary. The truck looked really one sided, it look like it could over turn by even the blow of the wind. The state was horrible. Sello wondered how the truck could reach Kumato in this condition.
Then around half past nine that truck left.
They waited for almost 2 hours to see a good condition truck. Sello approached the driver: "Moyo"
"Moyo"
"My brother how are you."
"I am fine brother."
"I would like to catch this truck" Sello said "I am with my father and nephew."
"If you can wait for almost one week." the driver said "We have to load the car with agriculture goods. We have also to rest to recharge our energy."

He likes the truck but he was unable to wait for more days. They have to catch the train and a bus too before they reach Leonville. He have to return to work in one week time and they may allow him very few late days.

Butu the driver could see that Sello wasn't a villager by the way he looks, very clean and with his hair cut. He understood him but there was nothing he can do for him. It was impossible to get a truck Tuesday because the businessmen are busy trading. Then it only after Tuesday that they start loading the truck for many hours. So most of them leave Wednesday or even Thursday. The truck driver told him to wait a little bit may be one of the truck they are repairing might be ready by late afternoon. But He wasn't so sure that you might get a truck now. Even if the truck is ready now. It must be loaded first and by the look of thing come tomorrow may be your be lucky.
"I am afraid that I am running out of time." Sello was anxious.

Sello couldn�t take the truck that left a while ago but the state of that truck is scary with the poor state of health of his father Tata. He was very scared for the worst and may be loose money and his life. He doubts that that truck may not reach the train station.
The driver disagree to his fear: "Amazingly we met that truck and I know the driver in person."

He is our big brother in this business. He is a very good driver but the one who was driving it before killed many people and he is in Jail for rapping a woman passenger in town.
All the truck driver were known by the villager and they were popular. The children dreamed of being truck driver. But it was also a big responsibility taking many lives. With the poor state of the road and many truck too. The accidents were inevitable.
Most of the truck driver survive the accident because they are the one seeing the accident coming and always escape in time. After that they run for they lives and never return in that rural area for the rest of their life. They make sure that they go in the region far away to get another job. Or hide in Leonville a town of almost one million people.
By the look of that truck I couldn't even approach the driver for his service.

That truck over turned more than 10 times. But the engine is very good. They almost put in news spares. And now the have a very good driver.
Each truck had a surname and was well known by the villager in Kumato.
The truck that Sello has just avoided was called Kilimanjaro. The top mountain pick in Africa based in Kenya. Even thought they were far from Kenya that pick was very popular.
The drivers too were popular that they had also many wives in many villages. It was a very respectable job.

Sello suggested: "They have to find another truck body to put that good engine inside."
The owner of this truck is a Portuguese businessmen surnamed Tulani, his real name Roberto was even forgotten.

The driver doesn't care about quality but care about quantity. He is a mechanic himself. He fixes the truck and takes all the bodies trucks that he finds and put engines. Most his trucks are Mercedes but you will find inside Toyota, Isuzu�engine and spare inside. He is really an African that men. He has many wives and children in many villages. He eats local food and speaks our local language. He is always dirty all his clothes are oily with the car's engine. He is work, life and hobby is to fixing truck. Some other trucks owners call him to come and fix the trucks.
He must be a very interesting man.

Very interesting man, the Portuguese is very popular in this area. They call him by his African nick name: Tulani. Ask anybody here about Tulani they will tell you. Tulani started with one truck now he has more than twenty trucks in this area. Tulani if is not working is drinking. He smell cigarette every days and every time. I once worked for Tulani, his company his car a driving schools. Most of the driver here worked for him before. Tulani's trucks are strange and very difficult to drive. You must know some special tricks to drive it. If you drive Tulani's truck you will be much respected and you will get a job every where even in town.

Driver tried to convince the man of town not to undermine Tulani's truck: "My brother, You will not be a good driver without driving Tulani's car."

Drivers in this area and even in Leonville will not qualify as a good driver without experiencing Tulani self made and upgraded trucks. The driver call him Tulani coach, some of the trick are like before you start the engine you have to pomp the engine with the clash then you start to change the gears you must know how it works. The accelerator are always very complicated. There are some parts that are missing in the car and other extract parts there. Most of his trucks are very fast despite the poor body's truck.

Sello was even scared even to approach that truck that left. He was scared that it may over turn by the blow of the wind. He couldn't believe that truck is in running condition.

Butu the driver confessed that everybody knows that. In reality Tulani should have two trucks only instead of more than 20 trucks. Instead of fixing one truck he always rushed in assembling another truck. For him is about quantity than quality.
Butu remember a friend of his told him that in the next coming years if Tulani do not find bodies truck, he will take singles room hut put the engine and wheels. He is genius and very courage man. He is never short of ideas; I am sure that he dreams everyday about trucks. He never been in any mechanical schools but he is the best mechanic that Butu never meet. You may come with your diploma in mechanic but Tulani will teach you the street mechanic.
Butu was grateful and proud that he learned a lot from him. He can repairs many of the troubleshoot in the truck. There is no way you can drive Tulani car without mechanic knowledge. You have to be a mechanic to drive his truck. Every time some of his trucks are getting broken so if you are the driver you have to open the boot every time and after few days you will start fixing truck by touching here and there.
Sello the man who left this are for many years asked: "Why people get in his truck?"
"People know, some time you don't have no choice."

It Tulani who own most of the trucks here. I may advise you to take his truck because you are in hurry may be I understand because of your father's health. His trucks are very fast, he may make a 4 speeds gear truck to 6 speeds gears.
Butu the driver advised him: "You may wait for long time to get a good truck."
I better walk many kilometers by foot instead of getting into bad trucks.

Sello swore that even if he was alone without his family members he could never try to get aboard of a bad truck; he better stuck in Kumato for many days and get late at my work in town and face disciplinary measure than risking my life. That truck was really like a tomb. Like a car that transport dead to the cemetery! He was wondering how many people get on top?
"You know most of Tulani's trucks are cheap."

Many people go for a cheaper price and people do not have a choice here because the transports are very limited here. People are also used to see that kind of truck here and they are not scared anymore. He understands your fear because Sello never see those kinds of cars in town. But the way Tulani's trucks are not allowed to operate in town only in some very far rural like our area where there is no modern traveling safety laws. But his drivers are much respected and get jobs easily.
Butu got a job when he said to the interviewer that he worked for Tulani for 2 years. His boss took him on the spot living other twenty applicants. Today some clever drivers lie that they worked for Tulani to get hired because they know that Tulani's drivers are very good and may repairs also the truck.

Just when they were charting. One of Tulani's truck entered the stations with full of peoples and goods. Before even the truck arrived the driver knew by the sound of the coming truck that the coming truck was Tulani's truck. Then the driver said: "This is one of Tulani's truck that is coming."
A good driver was the one when driving eyes fix on the road but the hear was on the sound of the engine. He could identify even the problem of the car by the sound of the engine.
"How do you know that is Tulani's truck?" Sello asked.
"Just by the sound of the truck."
"May be this one is someone else�s truck?"
"I know my man the sound of Tulani's truck before I can even see it." the driver said " I know the sound of the engine touched by the great mechanic truck owner Tulani"

Then they saw a Mercedes truck entering the station, it was full of people singing on top of the truck. They were all wearing duty and dusty clothes. They were the arriving businessmen. When they are on the truck, they all wear duty clothe. Because on top of the truck they are many dust from the dusty street.
They seat on top of the merchandize.
But this truck's body was having a presentable body, Sello said:
But I don't mind to take this one.

Butu the driver too and needed customers too. But at the surprise of Sello would like to advise him not to take this truck: "You better wait for another one." the driver told him "I know why I am telling you."
"This looks much better?" Sello noticed.
"I know what I am telling you. If you like try to ask other drivers there my friends."

Sello has to rely on the driver expertise because he knows better this area and many trucks here.
The driver told him in details why not to take this truck that has just arrived. He wanted to reach and travels the 200 kilometers to the train station in few days not in one or two weeks.
Sello when coming to visit his village did one week in that 200 Kilometers. From the train station to the Kumato.

Butu advise him why this truck wasn't good. Butu last week on the way to Kumato. It fast too but always has a break down in every 10 kilometers. It is one of the cheapest one. It why he said if Sello was in hurry he could have catch that truck that left called Kilimanjaro it has a bad body but a good body. This one had a shining blue nice clean body but very slow.
Sello has fun has his laughed for few second a a good body different with the engine's power and ability. But he trusted the driver who took time to talk to him and explaining before asking:
"Why do you call it Kilimanjaro?" Sello asked.
"Do you know what the meaning of Kilimanjaro is?"
"Yes" said Sello "everybody know Kilimanjaro."
"What is Kilimanjaro?"
"It is the highest mountain pick in Africa."
While waiting, they heard other people who have just arrived with their bags, they were waiting for the Kilimanjaro to arrive. They were all asking for that bad ill body truck.
Kilimanjaro the top truck in this area. It is the only truck that travel 200 kilometers in half day. So Kilimanjaro always return the same day, late tonight in Kumato. It is the champion of their formula one truck here.

Sello could believe that the car that he had impression that the truck may turn over by the blow of the wind but instead the wind is pushing the truck and the truck is very fast and doesn't get break down quickly often.

Kilimajaro turned over more than 10 times in the last two years. It has a old body of the truck here but have had more than 8 different engines spare put inside over the years. Those bodies exist for more than 30 years. The only thing Tulani does his to change the engine. Tulani keep that body because the customers know it and respect it for the speed. I heard one day Tulani saying in the engine of that Kilimanjaro he putted some spares of Porsche.

The driver tried to explain why they used old truck in this area:
Here all the trucks are always in reparation.
The road is so bad and many spares break very easily. They don't charge a lot to compensate the damage. We go in town and buy the second hand spares that we modify. People do not have money to pay so we are doing also business. Instead of loosing we buy also cheap spares. Most of the people who have good truck do not send their trucks in rural area.

They waited for many hours until the sun goes down without getting an available truck. The two roomed rented at the price of 5 kilos maize for day. They have to give to give anything by the value of 5 kilos of maize or 3 Franc money.
Each room painted with while colour in and outside with a small toilet outside. The two bedrooms had bed with the local kind of mattress with plant leaves inside with clean white popular cheap shit.
They decided to return to the same hostel they were in last night. They also went in the local restaurant to have some foods.

This time they all wake up early at around 4 hours in the morning they went to the station. They were amazed to find Kilimanjaro in the station and ready to leave again. The four aid drivers were busy loading the truck with maize and agriculture and other's stock. This time the Sello's father was not happy to approach the truck. Tata has spend all his 60 years in the area and didn't know about the importance of getting aboard of a good truck:
"Sello" hi father told him "you see we could have taken this car but you refused to take it yesterday we could be far from now."
"Tata, I cannot take this car." Sello swore "Look how it looks like."
"The look is not important but to reach the destination, Sello."
"Father, I worry a lot about you. Even if I was alone Tata, I will never catch a car like this."

Tata has release Sello do not listen to what people are telling him. Since he was a child he wanted everything to go according his way. For Tata all those people who are traveling by this car are not human? What do Sello have extra than them?
Papa, nothing but I won't allow you to travel in a care like hearse taking people to the cemetery. It is not safe at all this car. Next time this car will break into two.

They old people knew that the ancestors are protecting human. There is nothing they can do to stop death when ancestor are calling human. Sello was a Christian but as an African he respected a lot their ancestors and culture. Time to time he prays to his ancestors when he was in trouble.
He had other thing in the Christian religion he was not believing in this religion such us Jesus multiply the water to feed five thousand people. He had difficulties to digest it. He had also difficulties to accept that Jesus walk in the big water.
He tried many time to walk on the water when he was hearing the gospel when he was young. He tried many times to walk on the water Mukamba but fail.
And there is another thing he had difficulties to admit was that Jesus has no biological father. Sello has thought to reality but had to accept it. For him he was saying that if he didn�t have a father he could have been born of any race not as a Jewish. For him may be Jesus was a coloured.
When it comes to the African tradition, he refused to accept that once he is dead he can bless his children or grand children.
In Leonville the African tradition was popular he used to accompany his friend to cemetery with a lotto ticket putting it to the dead man grave. Sello's friend was sure that his grand father's grave will help him with luck. It happen that he end up after many attempt winning the second price. It wasn't consistent money because many people won that day. For Sello who accompanied him tree time at midnight at the cemetery for tree hours pray session it was a coincidence.
The man went on for many days before getting a slight luck. Sello was really fed up of the cold and walking at the place where people are scared of. Since then his friend that he believed kept this practice he hasn't got close to the jackpot.
After a long discussion while people were getting on top of the popular truck. Tata reminded his son:
I will never live in town for many years like you did.

He was decided to die in his village in his ancestor's land. He was going to town because Sello insisted just to try to get a good medication. He refused when Sello proposed him; it was by the insistence of Fonfon. He was firm that if the white medicines fail to heal him he will return quickly to die in ancestor's land. He was taking this opportunity to see also his grand children that he never see before. It is better to die after he has seen all my children and my grand children.
It looks like the father of Sello wasn't that much excited like Kalao to go to town. Sello tried to explain the necessity to go to town: "Tata, we are not talking about living in town."

Sello was in town for one thing to work. He was clear that he was fetching his nephew Kalao here to help to fulful his dream to get more money to invest and retire in Kisangu. Sello was committed to improve the standard of his village Kisangu that I love very much. It is painful to see my family walking kilometers just to study or have one painkiller to the hospital.
Kilimanjaro was slowly moving. The driver was not having a wearing a short. They saw a man not wearing anything on top, apparently wearing only a short may be because of the heat of in this part of the continent plus also the heat from the engine. With people on top of the car singing and even insulting people.
They enjoy that vibe of being on top of the truck.

For Sello this car is one sided and very dirty. Look at both sides of the car are not the same. The car is more relied on the left side. It must be unbalanced; he wondered how really this car doesn't overturn. The price of the transport on this truck is cheaper than other. Sello was not afraid because he had enough money for transport and hotel why to rush into death? He will always come with an excuse at work and they are human too and may listen to me. He misses his wife, children and friends too. He works in a very dangerous environment but I will not rush into my tomb.
In this isolated world they were not using money but exchanging things but when it comes to car they were using money. Because many of the travelers were business people whom live in town and rural area.
A man who was around them listening to their discussion come and told them that there is a truck ready to leave just behind the station. Sello rushed and went to talk to the driver of the truck:

When Sello turn he saw a green Toyota truck. He loved immediately the truck. It was already loaded with merchandize. It had few passengers, many passengers where at the market. It was around two in the afternoon when they got this truck. Each truck has a different price according to the make, the reputation and the age of the truck.
Never the less the difference was not that big. The carbine seat was the most expensive. They were only two passenger seat next to the driver.

They were one seat available in the cabin. They paid 20 franc for that cabin seat. The cabin seat price was often the double of the back seat for the conformability. Sello reserved that seat for his father and him and Kalao paid 20 more Franc for the two seats at the back of the truck.

It was by luck they got a truck leaving while the most of the people were in the market.
"Man, let tell you. This truck is one of the best is not like Tulani's trucks."
Each truck has a surname this one was called Vumbi meaning dust in their local language because they believed that it was fast leaving the dust behind in the unpaved rod.
Sello had a chance to read all the writing on this truck such us:
"Yuwa Yako"
Meaning that you have to care about your business not other's business.
"Oseki Ngai ozwi nini?"
What did you earn in laughing at me?
"Pole pole jo muendo."
Slowly slowly is the right way to walk. Kilimanjaro the champion on this track has the good and fast engine here. Kilimanjaro have killed many people around. The 30 years old truck that was modified every year But Kilimanjaro had all the modified engine existing in the World: part of Peugeot, Mercedes, Isuzu,�
The truck driver was marketing is car: "We drive slowly to save the life of many people."

People don't complain much when there is an accident; they attack all the witches when there is an accident not blaming the state of the road or the driver.
Waiting in that truck station without charting and doing nothing wasn't a good idea. Sello and Kalao who thought that the truck was ready were disappointed because the driver kept adding more stuff of the full packed truck. They decided to help loading the truck while Tata was seating near by the trees and eating some fruit brought by some venders.

Down it was mostly the agriculture product: maize, cassava, peanut,... and he was now adding animal on top. The cage of chicken and birds. He was adding too the goat on top of it.
They was a lot noise of tied animal. Then he was adding the traditional craft. It took again 3 more hours before the driver gave the signal to passenger to get on top of the car.
Five aid drivers were helping him. There was no ticket but the driver could only know the people who are allowed to climb in this car. He knew they faces.

For Sello a respected man Vumbi truck was good. For a man respectful like you he thinks is not a good idea to get aboard that truck. In this part of the world they don't see and care about quality but quantity. The drivers make sure that they load as much as possible they truck without looking of the limited weight required. Sello looking at truck hated immediately the owner and especially the man originated from Portugal Tulani.
His really name was Fernando but no one cared about his real name. Sello was angry with the truck driver who cares only about money. The drivers were under pressure to reach the daily required among of money and the same time they wanted to get some extra money for themselves and share with the aid driver.
Tulani was having many local wives here and have many children whom all are trucks drivers too except the little one. There was a time when some government authorities come here to inspect: they pull out of the road all Tulani's trucks. Then after few weeks when those authorities returned to town. All the Tulani's trucks were back on the road. There is nothing we can do. What makes the matter worst is because we don't have enough transport here. Those kinds of cars are not in used in Europe or America only here in rural area in Africa. There are in the museum in the developed countries.

Sello prayed that Vumbi do not get a major break down. They will have sometime to spend more day if it happen before fixing it.
They will have to wait for other truck to pass by for assistance or have to rush in big concentration to fix the broken spare and return with it at the place where the truck is stuck. All the drivers and aid drivers were are good mechanics.
There was no driving school in this region but the aid driver after many years of traveling were graduating to driver. They all dreamed of being driver.
All the drivers had the traditional protection against the jealous people. To be loved by the bosses and passenger. To be popular. To survive when the accident happen. To not be caught by the angry mob if the accident happen in a village.
The owner had their protection to save the truck from major accident.
He opened for the last time the boot of the truck recheck everything including fixing the endless wires of the lights of the cars that have always a problem. He check the trailer of the truck too
The driver for the Vumbi truck before starting the engine had a small pack of white stuff. When everybody was aboard of the truck he turned around slowly throwing the white powder in praying talking.
Then he arrived at his truck door, he thrown some powder too then jump tree time. Kiss the soil and turned around tree time.
When he entered the driver cabin he drank some red stuff in a bottle.

"I trust you but I want really your words to be materialized and I hope you won't disappoint me." Sello said.
"Be calm and sure that you will reach your destination safe and in time." The driver reassures him.
"Thank you in advance."
"It also my pleasure in advance too."
There were some 30 peoples on top of the goods.
When he started the engine and slowly leaving the truck station the animals on top of the truck screamed endlessly. They were in prison and a different environment.
It was so packed that the drive at the top speed of 30 kilometers an hour some time less. The reason also of driving slow it is because of the poor state of the roads too.
Each time the truck drive, there was a funny noise from the trailer. It look like the truck could have broke in two anytime.
The driver was telling the passenger in the cabin and Sello's father: "When we drive the eyes look at the road but they hear is checking the sound of the engine."
They could easily know that something was wrong by the unusual sound of the engine.
Each truck in this area has at least 3 aid workers. Their job is to load and off load the truck include helping to the drivers to fix the trucks when it break down. They also help to fix some part of the road at the same time.
When the truck was moving passing the street small children on street were praising the truck and call it by they name:
"Vumbi Vumbi."
Each time the driver hears the praise of the curious villager looking at the truck. He accelerates a little bit more.
At the back of the truck the usual traveler the businessmen were singing praising the driver: "Chauffeur wetu twende 100."
�Our driver let go until hundred.� A plead to the driver to drive little bit fast.
The children loved to watch the passing truck. It was not only the children but also the big people.
The trucks often break down every 4 hours even less.
Sello was praying to reach in time the train station to avoid a possible disappointment. Luck was on their side because they were not rain it was in the short winter.
They drive for the first hour without any breakdown. The roads were accessible. The challenge was to avoid the trees around the roads that hit people sitting on top of the truck and often injured peoples.
Some passenger when they see the tree that was about to hit them they warned they other passenger: "Passop Passop."
Be careful a tree. All the passenger will hide they faces and the trees will hit the top of the car and hit the passenger.
Kaloa enjoyed the journey. It was his first time to get aboard a car and for Sello it was a nightmare.
When he was visiting Kisangu he was seating in the driver cabin. Now he had to seat at the back with the tree hitting them and the dust. In few minute all the people were like painted with dust.
The businesses were used on those kinds of challenges. There was no way they could make plenty of money without accepting those challenges.
In their tradition they said that nothing is for free. Meaning that the one who do not risk will not win.
They were making plenty of profit. More than 1000 % profit. With things they pick up in town they make a fortune in the rural area. If it wasn't because of those challenges everybody in town could have easily come to the far rural area to make money.

Then they arrived at small bridge were they met the first challenge. The driver told to every body to get out of the truck and follow the truck by feet. Then he drive slowly drives on a small bridge made of two big branches just good enough for the truck's wheel.
A careless driving will see the truck into the valley. To pass trough this bridge, to off load the people and some goods from the truck and to reload the truck the other side it takes about forty minutes. And the was some 4 similar bridges on the 200 kilometers road.

He was disappointed by the truck he was aboard. It had only one light at night. Sometime when they were entering the big hole. The light wires were moving and the single light was going off. So the driver has to stop time to time to fix that light wire. The truck had no hooting system probably broken with the bad state of the road.

When the cross the second bridge. They had a strong engine sound coming with people whistling and singing. It was in fact Kilimanjaro.
It here that Sello realized that the popular truck has no windows. He imagines that when it is cold people in the cabin feel the cold more than other people. He imagined how it looks like if it was raining.
When the Kilimanjaro reached them they stopped for 5 minutes and the two truck drivers were charting. The people of Kilimanjaro were laughing at the people of the other truck: "Kilimanjaro is the best. The highest pick of mountain in Africa. We are the champion. We will return and find you on your way. You are always late and you will be late for the train�"
"Shut up." the passenger in the other truck said "You will die in this strange truck. Those kind of truck are in the museum in Europe, America or Asia."
"It doesn't matter as long we reach our destination. Kilimanjaro is the truck's formula one champion. He may compete only with the likes of Porsches."
"Man, we don't care as long we are in the safe hand of our slow truck."
Some of the passengers were even mocked the passenger of the slow truck Vumbi: "Let me tell you the Chimpanzee was late when God was creating the monkeys and by consequences he does not have a tails as others monkeys."
"We will reach our destination. If you don't know we may come to your burial service soon."
"It doesn't matter." this passenger defended the truck he was aboard "No one in this World is eternal even the king and the powerful man die to. We will go to heaven anyway and have a dinner with angels."
"You will never go to heaven you. If you enter heaven the angels will strike in heaven and God will send you to hell without judgments."
I don't mind us long hell is a name of a place in the after life and heaven is the name of another place after life too.
Each time that the trucks meet the passenger had to chat and insult the other passenger from the other truck. The drivers knew each other and most of the time they could chat little bit and tell them how the roads look like.
The road was small good enough only for one car. So when two track meet they have to make a space for each other. They drive through the bushes around. They have to drive slowly.

They could warn each other and they knew so well the road and could easily describe what is ahead in the road and how they left the road.

Then the Kilimanjaro truck left. The heard after another one hour of driving a tyre bust. They had to off load the truck and fix the tyre. The process took almost two hours to be completed.
After the tyre has been fixed they traveled as usual at the low speed to arrive at the old bridge. This bridge was quiet long 100 meters. They were a broken bridge left by colonist�s long time ago. We don't know exactly when but it seems 100 years ago. Because they left the bridge and they was no one to take care of it. The bridge collapsed one month ago with an over loaded truck and people aboard. This bridge was big enough and people used to cross aboard of the truck. More than 50 people lost their life at that bridge.
When they arrived the driver stopped the truck and went to a kind of a tomb build in souvenir of the tragic even next to the road.
The driver prayed to ancestors and left some money there. It was a culture to leave money there. No one was supposed to touch it. People respect a lot the culture in this area.
But there is a story that happened. A mad man from a village near by that bridge used to come and pick up the money that the drivers used to offer there. Eventually he was killed by the angry villagers for not respecting the dead and ancestors.
The man becomes mad when he hit his mother. It was forbidden to hit or even touch elders specially parent. They believed that parents are the children god on this earth.
It was forbidden in all the culture to physically fight with parent. And it was the effective and simple way to get mad for the people who were determined to be mad in hitting the parent and especially the one who has carried you for 9 months in her stomach: mother.
They could see the lighting eyes of the lions in the mountain around the road and hear all sort of wild animal sound. Birds sound...
What was good is that the wild animals were not attacking passengers who were in group and especially the lion hated the modern light from the truck...
This time they had to take a ship built by local villager. The ship build was traveling with a Mercedes engine car. This process of loading the ship and putting the truck in that ship takes more than five hours again. The passenger cross the river by canoes.
They travel 200 kilometers in 29 hours. They have stop to many more than 10 big villages and passed about 34 small villagers. Vumbi the truck reached the Train station village at around 2 P.M in the next day.

PART TWO :THE TRAIN

The train station was called Andrew.
Very dirty, Sello rushed to a hostel to have a chance to baths.
The hostel was just all the house built by villagers. Some people who had many houses used to rent the other houses to the visitors. The train station villager was very popular and was called by the name of Andrew. The village was named after a Belgium colonist who was loved by the local people in the village. He lived there and was buried many years ago in the same village. According to a local stories Andrew arrived there working in the building of the rails way. He decided to stay in that village. He was very good with people and was an exception to many colonists. He was the one who was defending local people against some rude colonists. He lived like an African ate and wear like Africans. He was so unique that the villagers were touched when he died after being bitten by a dangerous snake. The dangerous snakes Cobra were a lot in this area. He was bitten when he went to hunt in the jungle. All the villager decided to remember him by changing the name of the village to Andrew.

Andrew was well known by many people around. The money was often used in this village compare to Kisangu and Kumato. They were speaking a different dialect too. But still people could communicate because some words were very much similar.
They had a school and hospital managed by the train's company. Many people from different villages were coming to get access for these modern facilities.
The companies were employing 10 people living in Andrew. They were well respected and envied by many villagers. They were considering as local rich in the city.
The villagers here and some villagers from the nearest village were living by the train. They were trading in selling their goods to train passengers. Many businessmen here were trading in the train. The villagers were also buying product from town in the train such as: soap, salt, sugar, clothes�
They were only one passenger train a week. That is mean one going to the north and the same train returning from north to south. Leonville the big town was situated at 600 kilometers. But the train railway was only covering 400 kilometers. Except train of goods that were often seen every tree days.
The train station was a big covered space with the open roof and cemented floor space. With a two room office where they sell the train's tickets. They were many tones of agriculture product and hundred of people here and there and vendor selling mostly food.
It was noisy with many people chatting and people sleeping on top of their bags and parcels.
If you miss the passenger train you will have to wait for another week to catch another passenger train.
The percentage of intellectual was also low here but much better than Kisangu and Kumato. Andrew had over 10% of people who can read and write. Kumato less than 5% literate and Kisangu had less than 1 %. But the level of intellectual in women was still very low because many people don't send girls to schools. For them girl are made to be married only and take care of their families. Some very few people who were living towns before are those one who were sending their children to schools. Those sending their girls to schools were criticized by the local villagers. They considered that practices an insult to the ancestors and their culture. When a girl is thirteen or fourteen years old they start looking for the husband and by the time she is fifteen she must be married at least.
Sello made sure not to miss the train that was arriving in two days.
The day of the arrival of the train. He went to the train station bought the ticket one hour early from the official time of the arrival of the train.
Officially the train supposed to arrive in Andrew at 8 hours o 'clock and supposed to leave fifteen minutes. But for many years the train never arrived on time. It arrived 5 hours later some time the train arrived a day later when it experience many technical problems on his way.
Sello was wearing good clothes with a cap because he knew that there is less dust in the train compare to the top of the truck.
He waited for 3 fours and decided to ask to one of the official the delay:
I don't understand why the train is already 3 hours later? I was here since 7 hours now we are approaching 11 hours. The train supposed to be here at around 8 hours of the morning.
The officers look at him very strange like if he didn't want to talk to Sello. He look at Sello like if he has just done something wrong: "We are you from?"
"I am actually from Leonville and went to visit my family in Kisangu." Sello proudly said.
"What?"
"Kisangu."
"I never heard about Kisangu?"
They were thousand and thousand of villages and it was difficult for people to know all of them.
"It is a village situated at 20 kilometers from Kumato." Sello explained "And Kumato it situated at 200 kilometers of this train station."
The man who was holding a files with him. Look at into the file searching for a document that he didn't find. Responded again after like two minutes: "I know Kumato." the officer said "You know why I ask you were are you from?"
"I don't know."
Because there are two hundred passengers waiting here and no one have complained.

He has been working for many years but few and rare people complain. He remembered that he had 6 months without meeting any complain. Few people complain specially European complains but to see an African complaining is rare. Just by Sello complains he will define him. He knew that Sello haven't catch the train for many many years sometime may be he never took a train in his life. Then he noticed that Sello live in town and have a good job were time is respected.
"Am I lying?" the officer said.
"No but ..."
"Tell me if I am lying."
"You almost right sir."

People do not complain because they know that the train is always late. But they make sure to be on time at the train station. The train usually arrived 5 hours late and sometime it may take even a day if it experiences a huge technical problem.
Sello put his hand on his head then said: "I cannot afford to miss the train because I will have to wait for another week."

If it happens that he misses the only weekly passenger train he won't return again to Kisangu in one week. If his village was near around Andrew he could have return but his village is situated at some two hundred kilometers from here. Not only that if he stay here for one week he will have to spend more money on food and hostel�
"You are right. "

They always find here many people at this station because many after missing the train cannot return to their village because it far from here. Those who live near bye return to their villages. They had a limited budget to afford the hotel for a week. So they use the train station hangar as they home. The little money they have they buy ticket and food.
Sello realized how badly is missing the train and wait for a week. He had a problem to wait even for half an hour.
He used to fight with his boss who always makes him wait. When he promised to meet him at a 10 o' clock he will arrive at 10: 30. Thirty minutes was too much for Sello but here people wait for a week sometimes.

The train official wearing the popular Khaki suit with a cap warned the man of town: "Be around and do not go far from the station in the village."

Many people miss the train just when the train is about to arrived. They may wait for 6 hours without seeing the train. Then the moment they decide to have a walk in the village it when the train arrived often. So Sello has to be careful not to be tempted try to go far but must be around here like everyone else.
"I will not make that mistake." Sello said "I have now four days left to return to work. I cannot afford to miss the train. I am from far, I managed to travel the most challenging road of 200 kilometers and before that I walk for 20 kilometers. They is no way I might miss this train."
The officers look again in the file but seem not to find an important paper he was looking for then he even checked on all his pocket. Then he said gently to Sello: "Okay I have to rush for other preoccupations. Be calm the train may arrived after one hours or more. I am not sure when."
"Thank you for charting to me and letting me know the time table on the ground not the officially time table."
"It is my pleasure but it is my job to inform you. I am very sorry and apologize on the behalf of my company for the inconvenience that we are causing you."
"I understand."
Sello was now patient. They waited at the station for many hours then. They heard a strong hooting of the train when approaching the station. Everybody wakes up and wake up other passengers who were sleeping. Then Sello told Papa and Kalao: "The train is coming please follow me."

There were many robbers around and there who are waiting for this time when people are rushing to steal. He told Kalao hold tied the bag.

Then the train started approaching slowly then Kalao was the first one to see it: "Uncle I see some kind of big snake coming. Very big long snake."
"That is the train." confirmed Sello.
Every body got ready for the train. The parents holding their children and calling all the people who were not around to rush. They all had bags and goods with them, they started fetching their belongins waking up all the passengers who were sleeping. Everybody was rushing.
"Yes" Kalao said "yes it is huge and big."
"We will get inside once it stops." Sello said "Tata, I will help you to get into the train. Kalao you are a big man please follow me."
"I will follow you." Tata said.
"Hold tied the bag."
"Yes, uncle I am holding it tied." Kalao said.
Every ticket had seat number but they don't respect it. The train was always over crowded. Each compartment had more than 80 people aboard. The top of train were also full of goodies. There was not empty seats. Many people were sitting with their bag on the corridor. It was very hot inside the train. The train had a very strange smell mixture of different food with the sweat of people. Often the very allergic people do vomit once they get inside into the train but as time goes on they get use.
Some gang always sells the seats. They live with that business. They work in group. They make sure at the terminus of the train to have many seats then as the train travel at different stops they sell those seats. Then they make sure to have the empty seat of people leaving the train. The same group steals some bags of people who are distract. They were called Yuda name taken from the Bible Judas the man who sold Jesus Christ.
When they were inside just before the train leave the station Sello was busy looking for the one seat, his father's seat. Then he bought a seat to one of the gang next to a window. When he was busy helping his father to sit next to the window to get fresh air in avoiding the bad smell of the train. A young man was outside the train was watching the movement of the train. Just when the train was slowly leaving the young man took from Sello's head his cap. Sello screamed: "Hella hella my cap."
"What?" Asked his father.
"Look that young boy took my cap."
"What you gonna do now?"
"I don't know the train is going and I cannot catch him now."
The young man who was about 9 years old was busy waving Sello smiling and saying: "Good bye Daddy, good bye."
"Stupid boy." Sello angrily instructed "Bring back my cap, I will kill you".
"Good bye ,good bye."
"Look�" Sello run out of words.
"Good bye. Have a safe journey�I love you and miss you"
Then the father said: "You the one who was telling us and insisting to be careful with robbers and you the one who is the victim."
"I don't understand"

Just when he finished sitting his father and he was on my way to the passage suddenly he felt my head moving. It was the young robber who took baseball cap. And it is an expensive cap. I felt bad that a villager who does not know the value of the label will wear such expensive cap and not even take care of it.
"There was no way to avoid it Sello." Tata comforted him "You were distracted my son. Make sure now not be victim of the same mistake."
Sello was so upset and angry the same time: "If only I could have caught him. I could have killed him I am telling you. He is very lucky because the train was moving leaving the station slowly."
Come down. You will buy another cap in town instead of telling us: if I could have, if I could have�I should, I should.
The young man insults my personality. He played with me like if I was a fool.
The train was traveling at the top speed of 40 kilometers an hour stopping at many stations. Each 10 kilometers had a station. The train was stopping to the station for 10 to 15 minutes. At each station businessmen were trading. The train was very instrumental for the trading. The train was always full of people as many people were getting off and many people getting in too.
The ticket controllers were checking the ticket in every 50 kilometers. The train drivers were changing turn of driving at every 100 kilometers. The big snake as Kalao described had 20 compartments. Each compartment was made to accommodate about 60 people but sometime it accommodated triple the numbers of people. Likely some people get off and in along the way and at some point the compartment could carry 80 peoples the minimal number of people. Depending also of season, in the school holiday and before the end of the years. The passengers reach their pick number.

The first ticket check that Sello and his family experienced was just after 30 kilometers. They heard some kinds of whistles in every compartment. It was in facts the group of Yuda talking to each others that the controllers are coming. So they had to climb on top of the moving train while the train by the windows. The controllers couldn't catch them because they were scared of climbing on top of the train. Some criminal some rare times slide and fail from the train getting injured or even killed with these practices. Many had the experience of this climbing habit and hardly get injured. Most of those climbers have been doing the same exercise everyday of their life since their childhood.
Once the controllers finish their control in the compartment, their return back to their seats. If you do obey to their instructions you may end up being beaten up. You have to pay them to have a definitely seat.
They rob when you don't look carefully your bags. Even if you find them stealing, by the time you will try to go and tell the train officers in their compartment. They will climb to the top of train and change the compartments sometime. With thousand of people in the train it will be difficult to identify them. So make sure to keep tight your belonging.
As people were getting off and in the train Kalao and Sello had find the seats next to each other. Tree people were sitting one small chair and bags, goods and other people sitting all over empty space. There was no space to walk free in the train.
Various noises where heard here and there: small children crying, people laughing and talking the other side. People discussing and fighting at the other side. All mixture of noises was in the big snake.

Then after 80 kilometers entered two young people in their early twenties. They were very calm just when they entered they bought two seats from Yudas next to Sello. They didn't complain, discuss or negotiate the price with the Yudas. They were not talking at all. They after that open their bag and pull out some expensive food in tin while the other passengers were eating local food bought from windows in the stations. They were wearing expensive clothes and look like young rich men.
The Yudas noticed the movement and sent some clever and fast robbers seating in the passage next to the two gentlemen as ordinary passengers. Those gentlemen were very reluctant to every body. To African culture you greet every body even if you never meet them before. But the gentlemen never greet anyone. And when the other passenger greeted them they responded with a lazy some kind of not wanting to talk.
Just after 170 kilometers one of the gentlemen scream: "My bag? No Jesus this cannot be true."
Then the other friend screamed too: "Who did this?"
Another passenger responded: "I don't know."
"Yes, yes my God who did this? The bag must be finding."
Passenger where very shock to see the smart man crying endless. A shock for many people seeing a grown up man cry. It was much tolerable to see women cry and more understandable to see a children cry.
They cried for few minutes and stopped.
They started now talking anxiously asking everybody if they saw someone talking the bag then one of the gentlemen started crying again and saying: "I accept to loose every thing except one thing. Only one thing that is in that bag."
Sello's father angrily responded to them: "Men, you entered here without greeting any one or even talking to any one now after traveling many kilometers you are talking to us. You didn't want to talk to us before and now we will not talk to you. It is our turn too."
It was forbidden not to greet people even stranger what those men did was unacceptable. "Father, Please helps us to find that bag, we accept to loose everything into that bag but except one thing. Where are they two other men who were in this passage?"

No one responded to them. They search all the bags and goods around without saying their bag. The two Yudas disappeared without any trace. We don't know when they really left the place because it was night time and many people were sleeping.
They two gentlemen decided to call the captain of the train. The captain arrived 30 minutes latter accompanied by 3 security offices. They insisted that they have to stop the train and find the bag and may get a big reward. He was respected and was wearing a different uniform and caps like a military general.

The official arrived with the torches starting looking around. The train had no light: "Captain we promised you to give you a lot money if that bag is found!"
"What is so special about that bag?" the captain asked "Many people loose their belonging in this over crowded train."

That bag is so special. There is something very little inside that bag and his very important. He told the train captain to please even stop this moving train in a middle of the bush and swore to compensate him.
This is crazy.

He wanted thousands of people in this train to turn against the captain? This never happen for more than 20 years he worked in this company and he never even heard that the train have stopped to look for that bag. From a simple ticket controller, to a supervisor,...It took many years of hard work and committed to become and be promoted from a ticket controller to train captain. "Are you drunk?"
"Please listen to us."
"Did you check around?"
"Yes we did check all over this place."

There were two passengers who were sitting in the corridor next to them and they have disappeared. If you may stop the train and we may identify before they escaped in the next train station. The train used to run with the fuel engine not with electricity. In town the (between) inter cities train used to run with electricity. And the electricity high voltage could stop young adventure to play on top of the train. Some of them were not even robbing. They were playing on top of the train next to the high voltage electricity just for fun. The police men were trying to stop them but they kept doing the danger game. Some of the young boys used to die once they touch the high voltage electricity but that was not stopping the other to continue that game and even join that dangerous game.
Once one of them dies from the electricity, the other remaining teenagers will play all day long on top of the trains the all day long to remember the dead one. The remembrance ceremony ends up too to the death of other boy too. Sello realized that people were no more scared of death and had no respect for life in the big town too.
But this train had no electric fences but falling from the top of the train, used to kill many people. But many people enjoyed being on top of the train. The big killer was the bridge. The bridge had very little space between the train and the top, even thought the train was not running at the high speed, it used to kill.
Not forgetting some desperate people who used to commit themselves suicide in lying on the railways. Not forgetting many people who were hit by the train by accidents. Also many cars were crashed by the train because they were many road that had no stop when next to the railways.

"What is so special about that bag that you don't want top tell us if you try we may be able to help you."
The two gentlemen had no choice but to give a clue: "There is a expensive stone and we are stone dealers."
Which stone? There are many stone. Look at the windows you will see many stones everywhere.
"Please help us please."
The captain shook is head and said: "I get the picture it is Diamond. I will send all the officers to catch the Yudas."

Those two gentlemen goes far in the rural area and buy expensive stones from the people who do not know really the value of money and the importance of those stones. It was very rare too to get them.
They were going to sell to foreigner based in Leonville and were already very successful in their 20's.

Then Sello, Tata and Kalao saw the gentlemen pulling aside the very respected train official the captain. They left the compartment for a while.

The captain motivated by the award instructed to the train driver to stop the train in the middle of the night and in a middle of big bush.
The captain knowing that he may get a good award mobilized all the security in the train to search for the Yudas. The securities started checking the Yudas. Some of them were well known by some securities personnel. They search the Yudas who were wondering what were going on? Because it was not time for ticket checking.
The securities personnel were beating some few Yudas as many climb on top of the train. Their brought in ten minutes 12 Yudas bleeding. They brought them for identification: "Tell me if those guys or one of them was sitting next to you?"
Those Yudas who were respected because they knew very well the train and knew how to escape and climb quick on top of the train to avoid the ticket controllers. Those people who were the first to grab trains sit and sell them while the seat supposed to be free to those who have tickets.
Those people who were very fast to steal anything. They were like gangs of criminal who control the inmates in prisons while the train officers were like warders who sometime where overpowered by the prisoners.
"No, it is not them."
"My friend you did a big mistake next time you must swallow them. You know there it illegal to trade them."

Many people used to swallow the expensive stones or hire people to swallow for them. The problem with these practices is that the man who swallow has to be kept captive buy the diamond's owner and don't give him a space because he may run away.
Then he was not allowed to go to the toilet alone. He has to make his shit in a pot. If he doesn't want to go to the toilet and when the owner of the diamond want it back. He will give him plenty of food so he may rush for toilet.
They keep insisting: "We will give you a good part of money."
Sello remember is friend who was hired to carry a diamond stone. He drank the stones and the diamond owner was there watching all his moves. He didn't want to even let him go to the toilets. He was not allowed to shit. But when he arrived at the destination, he was booked at the expensive hotel. They buyers arrived at the hotel but he couldn't shit to let the diamond go.
He tried to force but it didn't go they way. The owner of the diamond was complaining: "Do you know how many Mercedes and properties you hold in your stomach? He only managed to shit after two days. He was not even shy to shit in the pot in presence of the dealer. He commented: "The diamond dealers waited my shit like a return of Jesus Christ" They were not scared of the smell and the microbes or disease. They rushed putting they hand in the shit celebrating and search for the stones.
They gave him is due, and he disappeared from the hotels. He could see all the expensive cars park outside the hotels. He laughed saying that "All those cars just for something, I hide in my shit"
The captain knew that his job is in danger if his bosses find out that he stopped the train in the middle of the bush at night for that stone. The stone is wealthy to half millions USA $ and we had some small stones too wealth to hundred thousands dollar that we got from villager deep in the forests.
The captain got crazy with the amount of money the gentlemen were telling him. One of the diamond trader to show them how they have money shown him ten thousands USA dollar. The money that he never seen before because their use Franc in that African country.
He instructed to securities to climb even on top of the train while lying to the complain passenger who didn't know what was going on that the train had a mechanical problem.

On the captain instructions many securities went on top of the over loaded train to search for Yudas. Many of them jumped from the top of the train to escape into the nearest bush. Many Yuda were arrested and severely beaten.
The Yudas and the robbers were called "people of long arms", they take what they arms don't suppose to touch. They goes over the limit of they arms.
The truth is that they gentlemen gave to the captain in secret some money to motivate him to search for Yudas. The train drivers and many personnel were asking why the captain why he stops the train in middle of the bush and in the middle of the night:
Boss why are you allowing the train to stop in the middle of the night in this place instead of stopping in the nearest train station? They always blame us of being always late to our destination!
The captain hiding the truth told them:
This is a new strategy to fight the Yudas. Enough is enough we have to satisfy our customers who are complaining. But keep telling the passengers that the train his having a technical problem.
�A train has stop to search for a stone� Sello was disappointed.
The caught many Yudas as the never caught before. They beaten them and presented them to the gentlemen but the suspected were not find. They put them in the train's jails. Then after almost 3 hours the captain decided to allow the train to move again. The Diamond dealers were removed from the passengers compartment and went to the official department. After this operation the passenger were happy that the harassment of Yudas were diminished for the rest of the trip.
Strangely enough this method of stopping the train in a bush during late night were adopted and used in the future by the security personal. The captain of this train was highly praised by his authority for applying an intentional method of catching the Yudas. Luckily for the corrupt captain his authorities never find out the truth behind stopping the train. The criminal were still in the trains but diminished a little bit.
But at the disappointment of the people who promoted the captain, the Yuda returned in force this time shortly after few months. This time they were even able to stop the train in cutting the train�s compartment system until it pleases them and let the train go when there are done with their operation. While the train officers struggle to fix the communication systems each time it cut off.
With the train the challenges were much less compare to the truck but it takes tree to four days for the 400 kilometers with many stops in the big villages where also train stations.

The sad news for the dealer is that they didn't recover those stones and don't know who really took those stones in the overcrowd train.
PART TREE :THE BUS

After almost tree and half days of traveling the train the train reached his final destination a mini town of almost 100 .000 habitants called Sula. It was at about tree hours in the Monday afternoon. Sula was more a civilized town with many people and many companies. Here was the taste of a town. Sula was electrified with many schools, hospital. In Sula many people were Muslim believers.
The small town was named after an ex Arabic who used to trade slaves for America tree centuries back. In Sula they were many tourists who use to come to visit the houses and facilities used for slavery.
Strangely enough the villagers living near Sula were remembering the slavery after many hundreds of years. Those villagers were still running away if they see an unknown car. They still believed that the slave businessmen still catching peoples.
They always run into the bushes if their meet a unknown group of people in the area on their way to schools, farm or hospital in Sula. They didn't know that they peoples caught were sent in another continent but they believed that those people captured were eaten in Sula.
They usual have a story that the people caught were send to Sula, given a lot of salt for many days then the captured people could turn into pork and then eaten by cannibals.
They trust only people they know and their cars known in the area.

It is here people catch the train for the big town called Leonville. The hostels here were semi modern. Big houses with many rooms, it is here that you may see some private cars not only trucks like in the most part of the rural area.
In Sula the government was more present and takes care of problem in conjunction with the local traditional court. Here the chief was not so popular like in the rural area. He was still respected like the governmental authority. His power was less compare to the governmental authority.
The percentage of intellectual was high at 15 %. But the percentage in women studying was low compare to the men. It was not a crime here to send girl to schools. The women get married here at around sixteen years old or in the early twenties. Here the were many bicycles and people had many clothes compare to the rural area. The radio was becoming popular but there were no television.
There were many Europeans here. In fact all the big companies here were own by European.
The road between Sula and Leonville was modern but small in his size. The people here use buses to go to Leonville not trucks. The trucks were much better and carry mostly the good. They were a lot accident on that paved road between Sula and Leonville.
The buses were not in good condition. Most of the buses were old or second hand buses from Europe but much more comfortable and safer than trucks. Here the drunk a lot the modern beer compare to the village were people drink traditional beer.
When they arrived in this town.
Sello told specifically to his nephew: "Kalao, this is just the taste of things that you will see in town. This is a small town or a big village."

Kalao heard music all over, many people and people are going upset down like if the were in hurry. He saw for the first time also private cars not only trucks. People are were nice clothes and are much cleaner.
Kalao told his uncle: "It seems it is an interesting place."
"This is really small." Sello said "You will see wonders in town."
"Do they have a king?" Kalao wondered "The chief here must have a lot money?"
"There is no really a traditional chief in the urban areas." Sello replied.
There is a king here and the local governmental administrator. The chief here is not highly respected like in our village. He shared the power with the government. But in town there is no kings or chiefs it only the government that does everything.
Kalao asked "Which language do they talk here?
"They talk Swahili."
"What is Swahili."

Swahili is languages brought here by Arabs and mix to some local languages. But they have a lot of words in common. Those words may mean another thing in our dialect and mean another thing in Swahili. But they communicate in French with the people who do not know Swahili. It was an advantage for Kalao who has been to school and knew little French. French was brought by their Europeans colonists.

Sello warned his nephew that the French he studied at school wasn't that big: "That French you learned in four years is nothing. Here you will learn many more words in French."
"Do they speak Swahili in Leonville?"
"Of course."

They speak Swahili, French and other local languages that was spoken in the villages around the 1 millions big town. In fact town is composed by many people from different villages. So you will find a lot mixture of cultures and languages plus the civilization brought to them by colonists.
"I see here many bicycles too." Kalao noticed
"Bicycle is nothing here."

In big town people were not even interested in bicycle. If they were that interested the majority of the population could easily have one bicycle. It wasn't that needed like in the rural area. This was the difference and definition of wealth. In the villages people dreams of owning bicycles but in town they dreams of owning the cars.
"How far is Leonville from here?" Kalao asked
"Not that far."

It only 200 kilometers but the road is very good and the car are also good. They travel in bus not in truck so they don't have to worry about the rain, dust or branches of trees that hit people on top of the truck. In less than 5 hours they will be in town not in days like in the rural areas.

Kalao saw many people rushing here and there. Many different cars on paved road and asked an interesting question:
"What those people are eating?"
"What we eat in our villages." Sello said "and other things like breads from colonists and food from others tribes"

They eat the same things but they cook quiet differently. In villages they cook in their traditional way but in town with a mixture of many cultures and people they cooking style has been influenced too. Kalao remembered the businessmen who come to villages to exchange soaps, clothes and other products. They come to sell the maize, rice�in Sula and in Leonville. "Do people are lazy to plants food?"
"Not at all."

In town they find some few farmers too using the modern machinery but it wasn't good enough for the big population in the city and many people are working with different jobs. In Leonville there is no space to farm and people are busy working so they don't have time to go to the farm.
"Uncle" Kalao asked "I don't know how you went to town and who motivated you?"
"Your mother never told you?"
"Not really."
Sello decided to tell him the story of how he end up in Leonville 20 years ago.

I walked to Kumato. I used to sell every Tuesday at market family farm product especially maize and tomatoes. Then I met two friends Simba and Vuyo. We decided to visit Andrew. Simba was running away from his family because they suspected him of being witch and have killed his brother who died accidentally in a burned bush. Simba went hunting with is brother then there was an uncontrollable fire in the bush. They don't know who really started the fire. The villager could accept that Simba escaped the fire unhurt while his brother died. By fear that if he fails to explained he may be killed as a witch.
We didn't take trucks. At that time people used to walk the 200 kilometers. They were no track. The businessmen used to hire the villagers to transport they product.
They used the trailer that was pulled by animals for transport.

Even in our days they use trailer that are pulled by animals but it wasn't that popular anymore.

It took us only four day to reach Andrew. We walked resting in the small villages.
Usually the villagers allow people to rest in their villages and give them food and place where to sleep.
When we reached Andrew our curiosity was not satisfied. We saw the train and decided to get aboard of the train without knowing exactly were it was going.
Then we get aboard the train illegally avoiding the train controller as the Yudas avoid the controller today. Each time we saw them or heard them coming. We were getting on top of the moving train. It was dangerous because a slight mistake you may fall down and die. Thank God that no one in our group died but we witness two people dying.
We end up in Sula. Simba, Vuyo and me followed the businessmen in the market in Sula.
It was much more a big market than Kumato Tuesday market. The Sula market operates everyday not only once a week.
We were sleeping in the market and helping the businessmen to transport they good. They used to give us food and we were sleeping at the train station. We did for about a a tree year then we got a job for missionaries.

We worked for the missionaries in building their church facilities and hostel. Then Simba left us he went to Leonville.
After another year of hard physical work transporting brick...Simba returned to fetch us. He got a job for a mine construction company run by a Australian businessmen David Hilton. David appreciated the hard work of Simba and he asked him to bring him his friend it why he come to fetch us.
We worked at that company delivering material to different mining companies. They were delivering explosives and construction material.
It was a physical job. We used to work from 6 in the morning to 6 in the afternoon. Each time we come back, we were always very tired.
We were sleeping a lot to rest. All our muscles were always tired and paining.
We used the hot water and sponges to massage our body. We loved the miner. We fell in love with that job. We liked they way they wore: big suits, heavy boot and especially the casket with light on top.
It was only after 7 years of working that the opportunities come. We were not living together even thought we worked at the same place.

Vuyo got married first, and then Simba got married. Me I got married to my first wife Bonsile.
I loved that women, she was beautiful with a long face. I loved her but thing didn't go according to my dream.
I supposed to work night shift. The truck we using broke just after two hours. They were no spare truck so we were sent home early.
When I returned, I decided to enter my house. I had a spare key with me and Bonsile didn't hear that I was entering the room.
I found Bonsile with another man that I knew very well. That man used to come and visit us his cousin.
But I find them in the blanket making love. Bonsile look at me and her so call cousin who refused to stop the sex act. Then after he ejaculated he was just about to sleep then realized that Bonsile was watching some where. Then when he tried to look at what the woman was watching he saw me. I was holding my Yellow jacket.
The cousin opens the window and run away. I feinted; the neighbours come to my rescue. They didn't suspect too that Bonsile was cheating. The cousin used to come every time and eat to our place so there was no way to suspect him.
I realized that when I return home early, I always find the window open. We used to knock off at five in the morning when we worked night shift but sometime we could run away for the work at around four. If I am early I find the window opened.
I used to ask Bonsile: "Why the window is open at this time of the night? The robbers may enter in."
She used to answer me: "It was very hot and I suffer from asthma and I needed some fresh air for a while."
But I never suspected that she was asthmatique. The neighbours, I remember hit Bonsile. The policemen arrived after about thirty minutes.

They arrested me. I refused to confess that my neighbours hit her. They were very angry it why they hit her. But I said that it was me who did it.
I was arrested for about 3 months.

Sello stopped talking for a while. He had recalled the painful experience.

Tata, condemn his child while they were walking in Sula. "Sello, I told you and I warned you not to marry a stranger women from another tribe. She took your hard earning money. She humiliated you and on top of that she cheated. You were paying the rent for another man to play with your wife."

Sello agreed on one thing. That he was paying the rent for another man. But he disagreed that it because he married a woman from another tribe because he was still married to another woman from another tribe.

After his realized, he was decided to return to Bonsile and forgive her. He admitted that love makes people blind.
In they culture they used to say that there is something special about abusers and cheaters. They lovers do not abandon them easily. He remembered that the policemen were asking him: "Are you going back to that cheater? Yes we know that lovers return to their partner time to time. In this time you will get the worse."

He went back home, he was blinded by love ready to forgive Bonsile but when he open his one room house. The owner of the house refused to put in the room another people to rent. He loved Sello who used to pay in time and was not arguing even if he raises the rental price. And at the same time he compensate with the pain Sello was going thought.
He found that everything was gone.
Bonsile had fetched everything when they neighbour were at work. He has to restart from zero.

Bonsile was pregnant that time and he doesn't regret because I was sure that it wasn't my baby. We used to sleep may be once a week while the so called cousin used to sleep may be everyday I used to work night shift.
I never seen that woman may be she is dead. May be she still in Leonville the one million population city.
I didn't bore to contact her family anymore. I hated woman for many year before I met Jeanne my current wife at the church.

Then after working for David. Simba landed a job at Coca Cola where he still working even today. Then we heard a murmur that they were recruiting new miners. It was an opportunity to make our dream comes true. We thought that it will be easy after two weeks will be going into the mines.
First they had to examine our physical abilities. We met another European who was first in charge of examining us. We were about hundred want to be miners.
He told us to be without clothes only with our under wear. He checked our muscle. Then he started measuring our chest size plus the weight then he subtract to our weight to get a certain figure.

After this first test, we were left at about seventy in our group. Most of the people who were rejected were taller with a small chest size.
Then come the second test. They took us to the mountain and told us to run on top of the hill for about 30 minutes.
They selected about 40 people. I and Vuyo were still among them.

Then come the third one. The third test was the made in the hospital. They took our blood and urine sample. We don't know the requirement but after the medical test we were left 30 the required number needed for the mining.

We were very happy to have made it. Vuyo and me.
Then come the mining school.
They were paying us already but they were not allowing us to go under the mine. But our dream was to be under the mines.
But we were doing all sort of job. Carrying the rocks to the train station and delivering it to the refinery.
We had two classes, Wednesday and Friday.
Wednesday it was a former miner who was teaching us how to carefully walk in the mine and also how to avoid accident. How to rescue our colleague in case of accident.
It was a painful one because the teacher has no legs. He lost the legs in the mine accident. Every time we saw him we were urged to be more careful.

The Friday classes they were teaching us how to read and write. I didn't know how to read and write and they were teaching us French too because our superior were speaking French.
It took us a full year to enter in the ground. It what I wanted in life, to go underground.
We had many thought about the under ground. We grow up knowing that God lives in the sky and Satan lives underground.
It took us many months to kill that fear. We were always scared that we may meet the Satan himself under ground.
We were told that people who dies from the mine accident has seen Satan. We were told that once you see Satan or God you will die. And those thought still exist. I don't know how to confirm this because I am alive. Those who die are not able to return to life and clarify about those thoughts.
May be it true or may be it is not true.
That is mean that I got a break just after 12 years of living in town: 4 year doing all sort
of jobs and 7 year working for Mr. David and one year of training.
I am happy for Vuyo because after six years of working in the mine he landed a job at the soap company where he still works today.
Vuyo was complaining too much. He had a soft heart the women's heart. He was crying each time he sees the colleague dying from accident and injured. We all feel the pain but Vuyo was motivated to leave the mine.

In the soap company is doesn't earn much as a miner but he is very happy there.
Vuyo and Simba still my brother. We meet each other and we are a family in fact. We call each other brothers and our wives know us as brother. We talk in our mother language Kambelembele and we are there for each other. Our wives are also good friend. You will see them and you will easily interact to their families too.

We say that nothing in life come easily. All those experiences we meet in life build our being sooner or later.
As a Christian, I believe that God bless us with maturity first then material come second. There is no need to give to your five years child a car even if you love him more than anything. He has to grow up first mentally and physically.

This short story of Sello motivated more the young man Kalao to try also is luck in town and being respected too. Surely Fonfon the mother of Kalao don't know the all story but know only Sello left the village for town. For the past twenty year they have been a little knowledge about the challenges that Sello met.
They used to correspond after may be six months and there was no way that Sello could relate the entire story in a letter.

Vuyo and Simba were they only people who went to negotiate for the marriage. First to Bonsile family then to Jeanne family.

Sometime friends are more caring like family's member. If it happen that one of them dies in this group of Simba, Sello and Vuyo. The other will take care of his family. Sello reminded Kalao to maintain friendship with his friends even if they are far from the village to keep in contact with them by writing.
He decided to show Kalao were the priests lives when they arrived in Leonville. So he can give them the correspondence letter.
Kalao asked his uncle: "Do you have a bicycle in town?"
"No."
"Why?"
"You will understand why when we will arrive in town."

They use public transport: buses. People there are not interested in bicycles. They use bicycle there as hobby and for our children. It is more dangerous to travel by bicycle in town because of many cars on the roads. Here in Sula they see car every minute. In Kisangu they don't see cars but bicycles every 2 minutes; in Kumato they see a truck after some hours. But in Leonville they will see cars every second on the road.

The only think that Sello had in town was the tricycle car. It was like a car and people who were riding it were respected. It cost Sello less money for petrol but Sello had lost interest in that machine and wanted too to have a car. But his financial status was not allowing to easily get one.
Sello rarely use the tricycle car in the weekend taking his family in the other suburb to visit Simba or Vuyo family.

There was no need to stay or have a break in Sula because here the hotel were more luxurious and was expensive. The other reason he was rushing to return to work and the last reason is that they were transport to town every hours.
The road was in good condition. It was a paved road but small allowing one car at each side to drive. But it was a very busy road with many accidents too along the way.
Sello told his anxious Kalao: "Trust me you have a lot to see."

Sello believed that it was important to travel. People learn a lot and meet also different peoples and different cultures. Sello still has also a dream to travel to Europe or America. Why not in Asia if the opportunity come. He has a lot to learn and see, he blamed many people who do not want to take the risk of exploring other part of the World.
He traveled twice to the capital of Congo Kinshasa.
He understood that many people do not have the opportunity but some have the opportunity and don't want to explore other area. It only the war zone that are not safe to be visited.
He was shocked to see on television people fighting in Angola while the engineer and the miner were wearing all those bullet proof to exploit the diamond and petrol. Where there was money people were not scared to travel too.
He was working in the mining sector and they knew a lot about what is happening in the mines.
But Sello main objective was to save more money and invest in their village. He was decided to go and retire in the village and will come in town may be once a year just to visit his children: his children kids and you who will be living in town like Tata who is going to visit his grand children and see the doctors to the hospital.
The father interrupted: "There is nothing special here. All the people in town are crazy."

Every thing for the old man was crazy. He was decided once he finishes his consultation with the doctors he will return home in Kisangu. He couldn�t live in an overcrowded city, were everybody are busy like chasing something.
Sello comforted his father: "Tata I understand you and I knew that you won't enjoy the life here. When I will be your age too I won't be in town. This is just a small taste of the town but when you will be in Leonville, I am sure you will hate the modernism."
"You are right." Tata said "I cannot live in this crazy World: many noises, cars, all the peoples, fast life, music and many different people. There is no privacy here and no ancestor traditional values."

They arrived at the bus stop were hundred of buses were parked and thousand of people were there to get their transport. Tata was even allergic of the hooting car.
Kalao was impressed by a five storey building he saw in Sula. It was the tallest building in this small town. He was wondering how come a taller house cannot fall with a strong and windy rain?
Sello took a luxury bus with about 50 people aboard it.
They took the bus. Tata was not so impress with what he saw. All things for Tata were crazy: many cars, the traffic�
But the young and energetic Kalao was very interested by many different cars between Sula and Leonville. First time to see each minute a car. This trip was the fasted one. They had only two stop on their way to Leonville. Each stop was for 30 minutes just to by cold drink.
In the first stop Sello bought a cold drink: coca cola and some bread. Sello was sitting one seat in front of Tata or Papa and Kalao.
Kalao and Tata were sitting next to each others and were talking:
This bus is lovely, there is no one standing or sitting on the passage and it smell very nice inside. "This really is the best part of the trip."

Kalao had a dream to become rich. He was thinking of buying this kind bus and sends to their village and makes it his dream home living in with his wife and his children.
He loved the bus with the decorating curtains on it.
They were many kinds of buses: the poor one and the luxury. But Sello loved to be comfortable. He preferred to spend a lot and be comfortable than spending less and sit on a wooden bench and feel the bottom burning.
Tata warned him: "This could be a crime to our traditional chief."

Tata was scared that if Kalao persist with this dream even jealous people or witches will kill Kalao unless he buys one bus for the chief too. Even thought all the witch will want a peace of Kalao.
The chief wanted to be regarded as the most powerful and most rich men in his village and the witches were against all the people who were successful.
"The chief is already old and will die soon." Kalao said.
"But is son will take over and will inherit all his characteristic."

Kifwebe the chief of Kisangu was an ordinary man before he becomes a chief. No one has imagined that he will be a chief. When his father died the first born of the family refused to sleep with her mother and him succeeded after almost failing. He become a chief. Tata was happy that Kifwebe is friend won't change. They were friends and they children were friend too. Kifwebe who knew him better started ignoring him. Tata was disappointed that Kifwebe could tell him that he was busy.
Since then Tata also started refusing to visit him and he was watching from far the man at start who he seems to be a good man but as time go on he changed and become even more bad and rude compare to his father.
Tata was convinced the only way to change their village chief was the civilization. Once it hit the village like in Sula. The traditional authority will diminish and the chief won't be so powerful but it is not now that they may be civilized like in Sula.
The sad side of the civilization is that it will kill the African tradition and the people walk like dead people without any identity. Tata used to appreciate the Jewish for keeping their tradition after many centuries. He met a Jewish who once visited they land. He was proud of himself; because he was cultured he looks more like ordinary villagers. That man left a huge impression in Tata's heart.

Watching many villages they were passing. Kalao saw the difference between those villages and they villages. He could see that some houses were build with the modern brick and roof not only on clay and Thatcher. People in those villages still very clean.
The bushes were much smaller and short. The trees were cut people used to cut them and make it coal that people used in big town. They finished to cut the trees next to the big road and were cutting the tree in the near by bushes.
"I will do my best with uncle Sello that our village becomes also civilized." Kalao vowed
"It will be a process."

Tata knew that process is a change that takes long: step by step not an overnight change. May be Kalao's grand children will have the opportunity to be civilized.
If we put a school and a hospital in ten years the village will be civilized.
"That is not all." Tata told him.

There is a school in their neighbor village Kumato and hospital but there is no big difference to Kisangu. Kalao studied in Kumato but it still not civilized enough. There is a lot more than hospital and school. The village must be big with many foreigners too plus also they have to have many companies. Tata insisted: "It is a process like I am telling you."
We will be also big like Sula. Grand father someone told me that this beer (coca cola) that we are drinking are the water in town.
"What do you mean?"
Someone told me that in town there is no water but people drink this drink written coca cola from their water tab.
The old man laughed for a while. He changed his position to tell Kalao: "I don't think that the man who told you was right. Who is that man because Sello never told us?"
"It is Palano"
Palano was a villager who left Kisangu before Kalao. He often come to the village to sells his product and was one of the reliable men who often told them about the civilization in town:
"Tell me is Palano ever been in town to tell you those lies?" Kalao asked.
"No but we are having many businessmen in town and I trust them." Tata said "One of businessmen told us last year to our village and brought this kind of drink."
Many people from the urban area where praising the urban area sound like heaven and make sound the rural area where people where happy sound like hell. They used to exaggerate and lie about the towns stories.

"If it is true why do Sello buy with money this drink?" Tata wondered.
"May be because the big town still far it why may be he bought this water."
"We are hours away from town not even a day" Tata reminded him "we will see if the water in town have this dark color and taste."
"May be there are two kinds of water: one like this drinks to drink and the other one like our water to bath with."

Tata refused to accept his grand child thought. The time of thinking that cold drink was the urine of white and butter was the shit of white people has passed long ago.
"I am telling you that to day not tomorrow we will be in town" Tata reminded him.
They traveled for 4 hours and before they arrived in the big city at around half past six in the afternoon. From far they could see many lights and Kalao was the first one to see the light and showed Tata: "Tata, Tata look there?"
"A lot of kind of stars!"
"Those stars are in town."
"No man stars are in the heaven not on earth."
"May be it is a star war." Kalao noticed "Look they are many light not moving but the others are moving toward each other�Look there."
There were talking about the none moving stars the one from the houses and the moving stars the one from the cars:
"Star war?"
"But they don't look really like the real stars."
"I don't think that it is stars war why do the driver didn't stop? Instead is driving toward and approaching those stars?"

Yes in town there was a star war. People fighting day to day to make a living with many challenge in the big city. It was home of good and bad men.

PART TWO: TOWN

CHAPTER SIX :MIND YOUR LANGUAGE

They realized that it was lights in the city as it was getting dark not star wars. Many people in the city were rushing to catch they buses. Many peoples were in they street when they arrived, when they get off Kalao felt dizzy seeing many movement of group of thousands and thousands of people the other side many hooting, many cars �
Leonville a town of one millions peoples. The second biggest city in the country. The capitol of copper and zinc. Home to thousands of companies. The literate percentage just about 30%. No chief or king everything was under the government control.
Much more noisy compare to Sula.

Kalao was watching a 10 storey building next to the between the suburb bus stop. He had the impression that the building will collapse anytime soon. While watching in walking he had the impression that the building was moving. He couldn't imagine that the tall tower will resist the big stormy rain.
It was close to seven hours in the evening that they arrived in Leonville at this bus station. They were many minus bus and few big buses at this station. Kalao could see plenty of the cars and hooting car in the street and wanted to watch the scene for longer while Tata was praying to arrive home as soon as possible to avoid this crazy world: many people, noises and hooting and engine's sound of many cars.
Everybody was rushing to the busses. They had to catch another bus from the central town were the bus from Sula drop them off. When they arrive near the bus they supposed to catch there was a big woman who was slow to get into the bus. And Kalao who was behind her urged her to hurry in his local language back in Kisangu forgetting that the language are different:
"Mama mata ko, mata ko."
"Me Matako?" the woman worried "I will kill you now."
The big woman jumped on Kalao and started fighting with him. Then Papa intervene in helping is grand children. Sello who was little bit behind come to separate the fight with other people come to stop the fight as the big woman who furious keeping insulting Kalao:
"Me matako, me matako�Fuck you to your mother, your father and your all family what did I did wrong to you and I don�t know you and you don't know me�"
Tata who was defending his grand children responded: "If it was not for those people around we could have killed you and bury you under one of the buses here."
"You look like my father" the woman reminded him "I respect you why this young boy can insult me without no reason�If my brothers were around we could kill you. All our neighbors know that we are a family of fighters�"
Sello didn't hear what Kalao said and was wondering what went wrong: "Kalao�Tata you just arrived in less than 10 minutes you start already fighting? What wrong my boy?"
Tata loved his family especially his grand children. He was not shy to intervene in his grand children fight and defend his grand children. He never wanted his grand children to be hurt. But when his grand children hurt somebody he was not hesitating to compensate the complaining family.
There was only one woman who started changing his mind to intervene in the children fight. His first grand child Tekanu marries a woman who was nicknamed "Danger na Mutu" meaning "Danger with head" really name Pasula. Pasula was very strong that she used to hit people with her head. She inherited the strength from his family. They used to hit people with head only and they victims were always falling. Pasula when angry, she used to hit her husband with her head and the husband used to fall. But when Tekanu was accusing her wife to his grand father Tata, Tata after hearing and witnessing the strength of that family with head, was even scared to intervene in they fight. She was the only woman in they land who is hitting men. And love was so blind that Tekanu marry a strong woman than her.
Pasula used to respect people and her husband too. But when she was always angry she often warned her husband even in group of people: "You have forgotten me? Wait when the visitors leave, I will give you a lesson." They believe that God has given the man the physically strength and the woman God gave them a big mouth so they may talk a lot. But Pasula had both: head strength and the big mouth. What was good about this African woman is that she was not hitting her husband in public. And she used to respect him.

And slowly, Tata started stopping to fight. It was more humiliating to be hit by a woman than a man. It what was holding back Tata to take the risk to fight with the talkative woman.
"Uncle I don't know what going on." Kalao explained "I only said mama mata ko please mama hurry up."
Then Sello started laughing instead of getting angry too as his two members of his family: "What funny uncle look how she tears my clothes." Kalao said "You instead of helping me like did Tata you come to separate us."
"What did I tell you in Sula?"
"I don't remember." Kalao responded.
"I told you to speak here in French!"

They communicate in French with people who do not know their native language is not spoken Leonville. Kalao has just insulted the poor woman. �Matako� in the broken adapted Swahili the language spoken here mean bum. In Kambelembele it means �hurry up�
Some word could be similar meaning the same thing in another dialect but sometime it mean different things in another dialect.
Coincidence the woman was big in size and was sure that Kalao was mocking and insulting her without any wrong doing.
He turned straight to the angry woman: "Please forgive us we are from a far away village. Mata ko in our language mean hurry, get in but here it mean bum. I really apologize"
"Go to hell. You are lying. This is a ridiculous"
"I really mean it" Sello said "please forgive us."
"You are lying you just one of them. You are an accomplice too."
We may call or even ask if there is someone around from our area and speak our dialect will tell you the same words. We are from Kisangu.
What is that village? I never heard about that village�I don't have a time to talk to stupid and accomplice like you. I have to go my husband and my children are waiting for me.
The woman was not ready to listen to Sello as she gets into the bus.
Sello turned to his nephew: "Look what you have done. Look now we have upset the poor woman. She will go and tell how you have insulted her without no reason. If is family was here it could have turn into a big fight".
"I am sorry uncle."
"Please you must listen once." Sello insisted "Don't talk for now on any thing to anybody."

There are thousand of thousand of dialects, so people talk in Swahili as Sello don�t know Swahili yet he begged him please talk French. French is the only language spoken in the all country because their colonist taught us French.
�I am sorry uncle.�
�Try to listen to me once. I have been living in the city for many years and I know how thing works here.�
�I am sorry.� Kalao apologized again.
�Sorry doesn't solve the problem is like you kill someone and say I am sorry.� Sello was furious �From now you don't have to talk .You hurt the poor woman. Jesus what a bad coincidence my God?�
�I am sorry please.�
�Soccer has never been an answer.�
Sello was not even pleased with Kalao apology:
Shut up, just shut up from now don't talk to no more.

Sello lived in Okapi street number 22. The name of their street was named after the popular animal in Congo but rare in any part of the world.
The suburb in which Sello lived was build for the middle income people. Sello hated the style of the suburb, all the house were white colour with the same model, 4 bedroom houses.
The yards didn't have wall to separate from other yard. They used short trees and plants include a kind of flower as the wall.
Sello extended his house to accommodate the sleeping visitor.
The house had initially a living room, two bedrooms and Kitchen but Sello build two rooms. An inside toilet and bathroom. He builds also a store room in the house.
At the back was another toilet plus a small room that he transformed into the garage where his tricycle car was parked. It becomes the biggest house in a suburb of about thousand look alike houses called Muteke.

When they arrived at home all the family were happy. Papa cried of joy when he saw the children of Sello. Sello's wife was so exited as she rushed to cook. The neighbors too come to greet Sello, his father and Kalao. Sello's wife even switches off the television to avoid any disturbance so they may concentrate 100% on their talking.
Few neighbours come to great Sello and his family for a while then they left hoping to give him a chance to interact with his family and return the next day to chat more.
Lindu Bukoba, the neighbours who become a true friend to Sello stayed much longer. They shared many secret and were helping each other with advises.
Lindu Bukoma used to sell with his sisters shoes in the biggest market in Leonville. He was in his early thirties and was single. He was late in getting married because people used to get married quiet early. Or may be it was by the new culture that Lindu Bukoba was still single.

What was amazing to Kalao is that Lindu was talking to Jeanne in Potolama a dialect that Kalao and his family did not understand.

Lindu Bukoba was from the same tribe with Jeanne. In the rural area most of the people talk the same dialects but in town it was people from many tribes.
Lindu was 6 feet taller with a huge body and bear. He was also commanding with his accent.
Kalao look at his uncle�s wife Jeanne. Jeanne really name was Sakina Kabotogoro. But people were used by call her Christian name. She was just to beautiful for Kalao. She had a long face. He remembered that Sello told him that his first wife too had a long face. It look like Sello loved women with long face.
She had natural long hair. And was very dark in skin. Kalao dream of getting a prototype wife for himself.
When she was talking Kalao had the impression that she was talking in an amplified microphone.
He looks at her body. She was taller and slender. He couldn't believe that it was a woman who already has given birth to two children.
He realized how money can influence a beautiful woman to love a man. In they culture they say that the beauty of women is the look of the body but the beauty of men is success or money.
In the rural village men preferred the big women called: �African�s build woman�. The parents dreamed of their child to marry big woman who has big pelvis to keep well unborn babies. But everybody has his own taste; Kalao was one of the few men from rural village who loved slim women.
It doesn't matter for women to love any man regardless is physical appearance. The look of his face, the form is teeth, noise, eyes but what matter for a man is success of money.
This brought a sense of motivation to the young man to work hard and be successful and get a beautiful wife.
He hoped that that woman could have been a top model if she was exposed to this kind of business.
He could say into his heart: "Um, my uncle knows how to choose women."

Tata was so excited that he could hide his tears. He felt complete and was ready to die now that he saw his two grand children: Shona who was eight years old girl, she look at more like the late Sello mother Connie Vuka and Bwalya the six years old she look like his father Sello.
Tata was very happy that his son blood dominated in his grand children. The children resembled to Sello physical appearance.
It wasn�t longer that a woman who lived near by comes with Sello�s secret child Dumisani. Sello once had an affair with Nomsa and they got a child. He used to hide to many people that he had another child outside marriage. The child was about almost four years old.
Sello�s close friends were the one who knew that child. But Sello wanted to treat all his children equally. And time to time Dumisani comes to visit them.

He took the tree children on his legs and was chatting to them even thought they did not understand the dialect but the children were communicating with their grand child.
His biggest disappointment is that Sello didn't make many children at the early stage like most of the villagers. He was in his forty and his first child was only 8 years old. While many people from his generation in the rural area had many big children.
Tata felt that he was ready to die now that he has seen all his grand children and children.

They started charting how the travel was too long, tiring and very challenging. Sello's father asked to her daughter in law to bath while Sello and his wife, Jeanne where charting and Kalao commenting. Jeanne Sakina was much exited and showed his father in law the direction of the shower and showed him to take the soap in cupboard while the woman was talking with his husband whom she really missed. The father went to cupboard and opened. He looks at inside and saw many things: salt, sugar, tin food, yellow butter and yellow soap.
In this time they use a lot the yellow soap and yellow margarine.
The soap and the butter had the same color yellow. Tata knew the soap but not the butter. He hesitated first in choosing the soap. This time luck was not in his side Tata took the butter instead of the soap. He went to bath and was wondering: "How is this soap of town? It like oily�But I have to bath we had a long journey. I am very tired I will go to sleep after I finish this bath."

When he finished to bath he went in the living room to say good night. To make the matter worst there were no mirror into the bathroom. Everybody in the living room were amazed and shock to see the father shining yellow and asked what was going on:
"Tata what wrong?" Said Sello's wife.
"Tata you are shining." asked Sello.
"Father you are yellow some kind of shining allover even in your hair." asked Kalao
"Tata what wrong?" Sello asked.
Tata responded: "I don't know."
They started analyzing:
"Tata you must be sick?" Sello concluded.
"I don't know I used the soap." Tata responded "May be the soap in town is allergic to me." he suspected.
Then Sello quick realized that the father took the butter instead of the soap: "No Papa you took the butter instead of soap."
"What butter are you talking about?"
"It is a yellow thing that they put in bread." Sello noticed.
In the village there is no bread, there is no butter too. Their uses white butter only for cooking sometime. The father got angry at all of them: "It how you welcome me in town?"
"Sorry Tata."
"No, let me return now to my home village. You don't love me, it how you welcome me?"
Jeanne also was apologetic: "father if we knew that you your will make this confusion we couldn't allow you to take yourself the soap in the cupboard."
"No, you don't love me." Tata concluded "Sello, give me the money so I will return to my village."
"Sorry father" Sello said "we care about you it why we took you so you may have good medicine and live longer. You are my father and I care about you, love you more than anything."
The old man couldn't listen to their excuses: "You are witches you took me in the village far from my ancestors to come to kill me in this land of strangers."
"I beg you Tata don't worry" Sello promised "this scandal will never happen again my father."
"I don't trust you again."
Then Sello turned against his wife, started shouting at her.:

She was one who made this mistake and misunderstood. Sello's father come from a rural area he never see a yellow butter only white butter and she allowed him to take the soap alone now it was difficult to come him down.

Jeanne tried to make understand Sello that she never knew that the father may do this mistake. Jeanne couldn't leave her husband for a minute. She misses him with the children. The children should be sleeping by now but they are here with them. He begged the husband to please understand her, the children were asking her everyday when Sello his coming back?

For Sello she should have left him and give to his father first the soap. He thought that she couldn't have left her own brother to search soap for himself. Now Tata doesn't have tree hours in Leonville and Jeanne Sakina allowing this mistake to happen.
Then Sello called Kalao aside: "Please go and calm down your grand father."

Kalao was the only one in the house that Papa can listen to in that moment. He begged to Kalao to please apologize on their behalf. It was not intentionally done by her wife. He insisted: "listen you also did a scandal at the bus stop it just some bad coincidence. Please try your best"

The father came down when Kalao tried to apologize for this coincidence and went to sleep. Their charting was ruptured with the incident as Sello went to bath and straight went to sleep.
The next morning Sello's father was in the living room sitting. Sello's wife was trying her best to apologize indirectly by trying to please the father. She supposed to go to the market to buy some food while Sello went to work. She switch on the television, the father was still angry with Sello's wife. He never sees a television but heard a radio when he listened to the radio brought by Sello and later taken by the village's chief. Kalao was talking with some curious neighbour outside the house.
He look at a woman presenter on the television talking then the Sello's wife come in the living room to tell him that she is going to the market:
"Tata" Jeanne said "I am going to the market and I will be back in less than one hour. Your grand children went to school and Kalao is outside charting with the neighbours."
"I beg your pardon" Tata said "I have a complain, tell me why you people of town are not polite?"
"Come again Papa" Jeanne asked "I don't get what you mean."
"I say you people of town don't have traditional values."
Some people respect the tradition and some do not respect the tradition. In this house Sello make always sure that we keep our African tradition. "Look at the screen".
"I see Tata."

Jeanne loved to call the father by the name of Papa. Papa means in Kambelembele father and in French Papa.
Your sister in the screen entered and never greeted me.

For the old man the woman in television was just talking and talking. She didn't even respecting him, she look Tata and saw him but kept talking no sense without respecting the elder. She doesn't know that Tata have big children. Sello was his fifth child and he looks much older than her. Tata waited for a long time for the woman in television to say hello but she kept talking the language of colonists (French).

She has irritated the old man who was about to call and send Kalao to go and slap her. He told her to speak in African dialect but she ignored him and Tata don't understand French but she keep talking and talking to him like if she doesn't hear him.

Jeanne tried to explain to the old man from the rural area: "Tata we will talk she doesn't see you or hear you."
"Are you crazy?" Tata shouted "She is there looking at us. How can you say that she is not seeing us. That is ridiculous my girl!"
"Papa we will talk more."
No avoid more trouble Jeanne went to call outside Kalao to try to make understand the television mechanism. She still avoids hurting again the father after the soap incident the previous day.
It look like Papa didn't want to hear all the mechanism, he had his understanding.
When they were busy talking they shown a movie on the television and Papa said:
She run away, she has noticed and listens to me and realized that I am very cross with her. �Tell her next time when she visit me on this screen she must greet elder she don't have to wait for elder to greet her. I will personally never greet her or she doesn�t have to come again to my son's screen.�
Sello's wife had to rush to the market to find better and fresh food:
Papa we will talk when I will return. I have to be in the market before the fresh vegetable get finish here people who are going early in the market get good and fresh food.
Sello's nephew Kalao was looking for words to explain Papa the television phenomenon not to offend him.
On her way to the market she realized since the yesterday mistake that his father in law is a very complicated man. In offending his father in law she may be in big trouble with Sello who loves a lot his father.
Kalao after failing to make understand his grand father the television mechanism went back to chart with the neighbour.

When Jeanne returned from the market she finds the Tata crying and asked him: "Papa why are you crying, who have past away?"

A bad man has killed a young and innocent man when Jeanne went to the market. Tata begged the bad man before he killed him to stop and refused to hear him�
The old man said: "I will accuse and take to the justice the bad man. I am just waiting for Sello to return so we may take to justice the bad man, I want him to be burned alive."
"Don't worry Tata it just a movie."
"What?"
"It just a movie Tata"
"You call death a movie?" Tata complained "I don't understand people in town .That means for you killing mean nothing?"
"Tata, I am coming."
Sello's wife went to call Kalao who was explaining the neighbours how was the trip and the different he noticed between village and town. Eventually Kalao come for the second time and tried to explain gently Tata the phenomenon but Tata was still very confused about television. He was not 100% convinced.
It wasn't long that Tata in the afternoon while sitting with Sello and his friends who come to visit them. They were watching a heavy weight boxing match. They were two boxers fighting. One was bleeding but people who were watching the boxers fighting were celebrating. Tata, couldn�t take it anymore. He left the television's room. He was angry that people has lost they soul and love. They were celebrating while people were hurting each others. The pain and suffering didn't mean much to the people watching. They were celebrating. Tata, said that "I am seeing really the devil in action"

After one week Sello took his father to the hospital for the first meeting with the doctor specialist. The doctors said there is hope that the father may get healed in less than 6 months and must still live in town for the next 6 months so they may follow his recovery.

Sello tried also to find an occupation for Kalao before he saves enough money for the business that Kalao will manage. He took Kalao to the local traditional choirs. He refused to be in the audition because Kalao may feel uncomfortable with his presence and it may affect the audition. He left immediately and went without waiting for him. They were so impress with the voice and traditional moves that he shown them. They took him on the spot so he may contribute in the choir with his traditional styles to put much more diversity in the choir. But Kalao was not happy and expressed it to the choir director in they were talking in French. In fact Kalao was happy to be hired but they had a miscommunication in French. Temba choir director was also a principal of the school; he has been even in university. Temba The choir director was talking very difficult French that Kalao couldn't understand leading to mal comprehension. Sello who could have help Kalao was so sure that with the little French Kalao speak they could communicate left him in the director office and rushed to work. He wanted to add value on the choir performing in the wedding and funerals: "I have the impression that you are not happy by your smile?"
But said in French by this term: �Tu as du sourir Jaune.�
If we translate in English it means: you have a yellow smile. Meaning you have a smile showing that you are not happy. "My smile are not yellow, I clean every morning my teeth with a brush"
"I am sorry my French is may be little bit difficult to understand." the choir director apologize "I have the impression that you are not happy, can we may be pay you just a little bit."
Then director manager of the choir, Temba decided to use now simple street term from the street of Leonville from telling him indirectly to start giving him some little money: "Tuta kukata milomo."
This term mean cut the lips in many dialects.
It used when you are trying to tell someone that you will give him something to please him. It is popular term in Swahili and has a story. It was originated from mine, when someone was doing a bad thing and to avoid to be accused to his boss by they witness. They used to bribe or corrupt the witness so he may close his mouth or be unable to open his lips and accuse to the superior. That act of compensating to keep the witness to keep his mouth shut is called cutting the lips or mouth so he may not be able to accuse. Now that term corruption is now used as giving money or something in exchange of your service. Kalao listened the words but not the term and replied: "What wrong did I make to be cut the mouth. I will not sing in your traditional choir. I am free to join you or join another group�My uncle didn't send me here for that."
Temba didn't know what to do, when he talks French Kalao don't get his terms. When he try to be polite and talk local popular term the man do not listen:
"I am sorry" the choir director apologized again "Your uncle just told me that you just arrived here and do not know many terms here. Sorry, cutting the lips mean we will give you something such us money in your exchange of your service�I really apologized I was trying to talk to you in a polite way."
"Yes, everybody needs some money." Kalao said "I just arrived here now I don't have nice clothes"

Kalao uncle cannot keep doing everything for him. I must be able to buy some things alone, he see people wearing good clothes and he look dirty even though his clothes are clean I feel very diminished to them.
It why I was trying to tell you in a polite way that we will give you some money to please you. Come tomorrow we will give you something to please you my boy.

Temba the university educated man was very sorry, his French is too difficult for many people as he spent many years on schools. He could have begged to Sello to be in our meeting to facilitate our conversation. He was happy after their communication barrier they have agreement. He encouraged Kalao not to worry with time he will get use to his terms and he will learn a lot. He welcomes Kalao as the leader singer in their choir, they were a big family in their choir and he was the newest member.
They wanted the choir to sound more traditional not modern and Kalao had that talent to make it more alive traditional band.
The exited Temba told Kalao: "Come tomorrow after 3 hours I will present you to choir the members and your small gift will be there."
"I understand" the choir director said "I hope I will learn a lot. I have the impression that I have a lot to learn and I am happy for the money that you will offer me. I was scared and upset when I thought you wanted to cut me the lips."

After one month in Leonville Tata collapsed in the bathroom. He was rushed to the hospital. He broke he left arm and the doctors help me to come alive and put a plaster to his arm. Tata was hospitalized for 2 days.
He was so uncomfortable with the plaster and complained to his son who comes to visit him. The plaster look like a local and popular food cassava: "Sello please tell the doctors in the colonist language (French) to please remove the cassava the put on my arm."
Tata this thing will help your broken arm.

He collapsed and broke badly his arm. The doctor is trying to immobilize your arm so your ox to return to the normal position.
"No man how they can put the cassava on my arm for two days now?" Tata complained.
"Tata it is not a cassava it is a plaster." Sello said "You have to keep it for at least a month."
"No, Sello it is a cassava. Don't try to insult my knowledge."
"I am sorry Papa it is not a cassava, they don't eat it made of bandages and other chemical material."

For the old men he didn't like what they have put on his arm. He felt like if they were treating him like a kid who does not know the World. They had apologized, He has created Sello with the collaboration of her mother and now Sello wanted to treat him like a stupid. "I am sorry Daddy but I always respect you and I will never under estimate you."

He thanked him for making him but he was telling him of real fact. It is not a cassava, he even swore that might even break it now and tries to eat it and he will realize that it is not a food. Sello couldn't not allow to remove it now, he knows that Tata are very uncomfortable with it. But Tata has to hold on for weeks so his arm get to his normal position.
�Weeks?�
"Yes many more days."
"Man you are killing me" Tata complaining "I cannot move properly my arm and it heavy. Sello, do something"
"There is nothing that we can do now."
"You brought me to town to kill me softly Sello"
"No Tata."
Tata felt so bad like if he was in a prison on the hospital bed. With doctors and nurses passing wearing the white uniforms. With the bad small of the medicine in the hospital hall.

It could have been worst if he collapsed in their native village were the hospital is far. To take him at Kumato and walk for 20 kilometers. Tata could be dead by now, they thanked God that it happened in town were they have transport and really a very advanced medicine.

Tata has the impression that Sello wanted him to live in town were people are indifferent to their culture. "Sello if I die please send back my body to Kisangu where I can be buried next to my ancestors and parents."

For Sello it doesn�t matter to be buried here or in their village. When Tata or anyone else once his dead his dead for good and will return to dust buried in town or in their village. It will be difficult to take Tata home if he dies in town. It takes almost one week to reach their village unless they burn his body and put the dust of the body in a bottle and send it home.

For the Tata it was a different view. They don't do that in their culture and he wasn't ready to allow that practice: "All you are telling me is useless. To burn me? I am not a witch to deserve that. You are treating me now like a witch?

Papa was making matter difficult when it supposed to be very easy. Kalao was not present at this moment with them to make him understand, they had to wait for Kalao when he comes so Tata may understand. Tata had difficulties to understand people from town us except his grand child Kalao.
Kalao was the only man that Papa trusted the most and wasn't there in the hospital hall to make him understand:

For Tata people from town treat him as a stupid, Kalao is the only one who treat him like a normal man. He felt that people who grow up in town thinks that Tata is so old to be confused, he was not even in his seventy years old and people treat him like an old man. He wondered how he will be treated once he reached seventy years.
"Tata please let wait for Kalao to come." Sello said.
"That means if Kalao is not here we cannot talk?" Tata complained "Imagine if we left Kalao to our village what could have happen?"

They always want to explain Tata the mechanism of things but Tata or Papa is not always ready and willing to listen to them. He makes problem where there is no problem.

For Tata children or people from town are nor respecting the elders. They will be punished by the ancestors for not treating the elders well. They were young and have a long live ahead of them, so try to respect all the people not only him but every elder so they may live longer and see many years like they saw.

Sello was still committed to their tradition and respect it is part of our culture and he was stick to their traditional customer and the same time trying to adapt to the new civilization. He confessed to his father: "You don't want to know Daddy we love you, care and support you. I know it is our homework to take care of you"
The immediate worry and need of Tata was to remove the plaster:
If really you mean what you are saying tell to your friend doctors to come and remove this cassava on my arm, I want to see actions than words.
"Tata, listen if we care we will not allow you to suffer." Sello was explaining "This plaster on you arm is helping you to put your arm in a straight position. If we remove you won't be able top recover Daddy and you will suffer more. Please, make this sacrifice for few days so you may recover for the rest of your life."

Tata was not scared to die, I was big he made his life; he had and have many children and grand children. He saw all his grand children. He was blessed enough too to have many friends and relatives there is nothing more he wanted.

For Sello he understands and was glad to hear the happiness in the heart of his father but life still life. He didn't have to rush him into the grave when they still need him. Sello still has a dream to make more children too who would love to see their grand father. He hoped that Tata want top see his coming children. Tata loved Kalao and Sello was sure Tata would love to see Kalao's children yet and he would like to see his wife too.

CHAPTER SEVEN :THE WITCHCRAFT AGAINST THE MODERN COURT

Kalao become so popular in his choir just in few months. He was well respected and taught them many: dances, moves and song from his native village. He bought a big revival in the choir.
The traditional choir was performing in many weddings. He becomes famous and a very important member of the group.
Their practice in the evening only because most of the choirs members were students and workers. In days time they go to their occupations then in the evening they were rehearsing.
There were practicing twice a week and performing every weekend: Saturday or Sunday.
Most of the time they were returning home around 11 hours or 12 hours in the evening.

Kalao has listen for some time his uncle talking with his neighbour Lindu Bukoba. He had the impression that he was complaining too much and wondered why do Lindu complain to much and not give up his job?

He complains about how many customers want a discount while selling shoes. He complains about almost everything about the market.
Kalao had the impression that Lindu Bukoba wanted to compete with his uncle. While apparently Sello was most successful and well respected.
Everything that Sello had or wanted to get, Lindu always says that his brother has already.
He was making feel sick Kalao each time Lindu has to talk to his uncle's wife he talks in Potolama a language not spoken in Leonville. Instead of talking in French or Swahili the popular language.
That show that he had very few respect for Sello, how can you talk with your friend�s wife in a dialect that he doesn't hear?

Sello's neighbor Lindu Bukoba was jealous of Sello and never express it. For the African jealous people are simply witches. People ready to hurt. He wanted to kill Sello so he may have his wife and stop Sello of progressing.
For him Sello was having a good job, very successful and had a brought future. On top of that she had a beautiful wife, as a single he had a secret plan to have Sello's wife. The reason of that he felt that he was lucky to be accepted by Sello's wife because they were from the same village and tribe Potolama but Sello was from another tribe and they had different traditional language.
The only man who was standing between the neighbor and the woman of his dream was Sello.
Sello was not aware that the neighbor Lindu Bukoba had some satanic ideas. They used to laugh, talk about everything. Sello used to tell him everything include his plan of saving money opening a business and later invest in his village�The neighbor become more anxious when Kalao arrived, the man who supposed to manage his business. That even doubles the degree of jealousy and his inside anger.
The neighbor when at a village situated at 15 kilometers from Leonville. He went to see a witch doctors called in Leonville Sangoma, he explained his problem and pay a good amount of money to the witch doctor to come and do some magic stuff at Sello's house so Sello may get a bad luck in the mine and die in an accident. So he may be happy and get Sello's wife.
This woman has to work against the definition of witchdoctor. Sangoma or Nganga kisi or Mufumu in the African culture are not there to hurt people. They are used as advisor. People who unify people not divide. Sangoma is an African healer, they deal with things like herbal medicine, divination, counseling, tribal ritual, protection, historical story telling, curse lifting and casting and contacting the ancestors. People contact Sangoma for treatment of illness, or to receive help with problems in their lives and for help with problems in their lives and for help with spiritual issues. Sangomas can be helpful in any community provided that they legitimate and do not peddle in lies and deceit.

But Lindu wanted to require the unauthorized side of the Sangoma to hurt people.
A real Sangoma have various methods of dealing with the issues that their patients or client present them with. If the person is ill they will treat the illness with herbal medication and instruct the sick person to perform certain rituals or actions that will aid in their healing.
The Sangoma will also contact the ancestors of the patient in order to get advice on the best course of action. The same applies if the problem that the person dealing with are spiritual or emotional. It not unheard of for Sangoma to put a curse on someone who wronged one of his or her patient or client.
Some Sangoma not all Sangoma might partake in throwing of the bones. This is when blessed bones and stones are put into a small bag or pouch, shaken up and thrown onto the ground. The way that bones or stones land tells the Sangoma certain things about the person asking for advice and their future.

Amina the witch doctor supposed to come nude at Sello's house. The witch doctor was a woman. She had to perform the ceremony nude and late in the night around 12 hours noon.
The witch doctor before living her village because she was going far in the night she told her children the place she was going to and the kind of the ceremony she supposed to perform.
The woman arrived at Sello's neighbor house around 10 hours in the afternoon. At that time she was dressed like everybody. Lindu Bukoba knew that women and contacted her for many service and it was always succeeding in his projects blessed by The Sangoma Amina.
He cooks at the best food for the witchdoctors and they chatted doe many hours.
She waited in the house until 12 hours in the night to go to Sello's window naked with her stuff to perform a ceremony and throw some substances in Sello's yard and his bedroom window. The ceremony supposed to be performed in the weekend because Sello was off duty the weekend and the magic stuff would work effectively once Sello in his bedroom. Amina was able to support her family with her profession.

It was Saturday, Kalao went to perform to a wedding in central Leonville. The about 150 choir�s members were present and it was quiet a great evening. Sello collected about 300 Francs from fans who were impressed with his aggressive singing voice. He was leading the big choir with new sound they haven't heard before.
He sang alone the song never heard in town Kalayi Boeing and Buti hamba nako.
Kalayi boeing meant let go Boeing the popular airplane. People didn't know much about the Kimbelembele but could hear some words here and there and get the meaning of the songs.
In Buti Hamba nako. meaning Brother please go(live) with her.
Those track where just suitable for the event as many people went crazy throwing money to the young singer form the village.
Temba knew how to make the crowd go crazy. First they all choir sing. Then at the end when the guest are busy eating come the solo performance of some choir member.
He chooses Kalao the new recruit to kill the crowd with his new style at the end of the ceremony.
People had difficulties to leave the party that had to end up at 10 hours in the evening. The newly wedding women almost kissed him. Kalao was going places.
At the end of the show, Temba made sure that everybody had the transport to return home. Some choir�s members have their own transport car fetching some of their colleagues and sometime he used to hire some two mini buses for transport.

Temba had one van. He was able to fetch too about 10 other's choir member.
He fetched too his new acquisition called Kalao. He was proud for this boy and was thankful to Sello for bringing this young man from village to town.
Temba rushing home was leaving his choir member in their street not at home. He dropped Kalao at Okapi's street and quick rushed to drop other's singers.
Kalao has to walk down Okapi's street about 10 houses to reach his uncle's house at number 22.

He met a skeleton dog who was not well nourished by his owner looking for food in the street. He was about to run away from the dog but the skeleton dog was running away from human's.

Then Kalao arrived around 12 hours in the night from a wedding ceremony.
Kalao when he entered the yard saw a naked woman at Sello's window. He thought that it was a witch in full action. In Kisangu when you kill a witch in action you will not be persecuted but you will be praised by the community.
Amina painted with red and white on her face. She was scary with a hat with two animal horn like a drawn devil. Mumbling turning around Sello's bedroom window. Each step throwing some substances. With a small drum hitting it and jumping with an usual sound like a whispering bird.
The outside light was alighting and she even thrown some dark powder substance at the light.
Kalao watched what he called the devil for about five minutes, then
he didn't talk and slowly entered into the house and took the biggest kitchen knife available. He come out of the house and slowly went to stab many time the witch.
People in the house come out to see why a woman why screaming. Then when Sello's wife saw the blood of the naked woman she screams and many neighbors come out. The woman died on the scene. The alert woke up all the nearest neighbors and people from the nearest street come too.
Of course everybody congratulated Kalao and praised him for killing a witch. The proof was there a naked woman at 12 hours in afternoon at Sello's wife with some substances with her. Lindu Bukoba the neighbors who hired her for her service was unhappy and disappointed inside of his heart but congratulated also Kalao for killing the witch.
Everybody was amazed of a woman naked in the late hours. They sent her body to the mortuary. Before the body was removed by member of the police service were called to witness the witch and they even took some pictures.
All the people living in the town believed as all African to the witchcraft and hated them.

No case was not open for the next two days. The children of Amina the woman killed started wondering why their mother did not returned for two days. Then they decided to send the elder son who was in his middle twenties to check their mother at the address she left.
He arrived at Sello's neighbor house to ask for her mother.
He was so smart like a medical student. Wearing a tie with a white shirt and very clean blue pant with eye glasses.
He was holding a white paper with the address, 24 Okapi street, Muteke.
The neighbor sister was still in shock and the woman's son notice an unusual expression before she responds to him.
The neighbor's sister lied first that she never saw her mother:
I never see a woman of the kind that you have described.

Amina elder son Tubileta was sure that her mother was not a fool, she gave them this address and the street and the number is this house. She never left her house where she was going. She always performs her ritual at home. She had many clients, some from even other's town. She rarely goes to perform her ritual somewhere else.
He was in his late twenty and was working as a carpenter in one of the big company in Leonville. He has built his house next to the family house where Amina lived.
She had a room outside her 4 rooms house where she use for her profession. She also got most of the plant root from some people who always sell those plants to many traditional healer and which doctors.

They were many street called Okapi or named after animal but this small paper had even the name of the suburb Muteke. There no street having the same name in the same suburb.
Amina's son Tubileta got angry, and rose up his voice: "Same name and same number and the same area too. I can see by your expression of your face that there is something wrong."
"I am just sad because I heard a bad new from to my village. I lost my father"
This wasn't a good excuse as Amina's son suspect a mal doing. African are very allergic to death name: "I am very sorry but I want to see my mother, where is your husband?"
"I am not married I live with my brother and other young sisters."

Amina's son, Tubileta like many African trusted the instinct feeling. That sometime was showing them if any bad thing had happen or has to happen in their lives or the love of their love one. They also relied on the dreams. Many dreams had interpretation. They knew ordinary dream and a message dreams from the ancestors.
Kalao hated Lindu Bukoba because each time when he returns home, he always hears him screaming and shouting to his sisters. Kalao after only few weeks could listen to Swahili the language spoken in Leonville. The Swahili spoken here was different from the Swahili spoken in the East Africa in country such us Kenya, Tanzania, Burundi, Rwanda, Uganda, It was mixed to many local dialects words.
Most of the time the big man was shouting to his tree sister, why they didn't cook in time. Why they left him few food for him. Why there is little salt in food or why they put a lot salt in the food.
He wondered why a demanding man like him do not got married and leave her sister in peace.
Not only food he shouts why they don't wash properly his clothes. Why they don't iron well his clothes. Why they don't polish his shoes properly.
It look like it why may be he was still single at his age. May be women were running away from him. If tree women (girl) cannot satisfy him what about one women (wife).
"So where is your brother owner of this house?" Tubileta asked.
"He went far and may not be back soon."
All those excuse where not helping but makes the matter worst: "What do you mean?"
"He went far and will not return today or tomorrow. You will waste your time if you decide to wait."

Amina elder son Tubileta wanted to see the owner of the house because the day before her mother left their village he was visited by a man who gave him his address. He wanted to see that man and ask him about her mother where about. The way Lindu sister was talking in trembling made feel him that something strange and bad could have happen.

Tubileta then wanted to confront physically the woman who was giving excuses: "I am telling you that I want to see my mother. This is the address she left, I don't want the stories. If you don't tell me where is my mother I will beat you up now."
"Come down man, speak normally we are talking."
"What?"

They haven't seen they mother for 2 days and this woman was telling him to come down. Their father who passed away many years leaving the responsibility to raise the children to Amina. He got angry that the so call brother was not coming soon.
"This is shut" Tubilata changed the tune of his voice "You are lying I want to see your husband to identify if is the man who visited our mother"
"Come down" the woman begged him.
That is the problem with this suburb. Everything going at the neighbouring house where heard next door. Every couple and family fighting where heard next door and the neighbours who were close to each other always come and play the referee and the judge.
Sello's wife heard the noise and come curiously to see the matter. Then she heard the young man furious and the woman trying to calm him: "Brother�I am sorry if I have to come into your dispute. Come down and try to talk calmly like a true man. We cannot fight you are a man who may protect us we woman if we are in trouble."
Men suppose to protect women not to hit woman.
Then the neighbour sister warns Jeanne Sakina, Sello's wife: "It is not your business, this is not your house it my brother's house."
Amina's son was ready for Jeanne intervention as he tried to relate her all story: "Sister, my mother left our village two days ago and never return. She left the address of this place. I am asking your neighbor if she has seen my mother and she is telling me stories."
Jeanne curious didn't listen to her neighbour call not to interfere. She tried to ignore her neighbor's call. It was the women customers and many people customer to know and to intervene what is happening next door.
Some women knew even what kind of food his neighbours is eating everyday. They had the ability to know the neighbours life and secret. That often was leading to dispute because they were gossiping each other:
"First come down." Jeanne told the upset man "We are talking; your mother have disappear two days ago?"
"Yes" Tubileta agreed "Sister may be you may be able to help. Have you seen a woman like this"

Amina's son described how her mother looks like. The description coincided with the witch killed exactly two days ago: "I cannot believe" Jeanne responded "we just killed a witch at my place two days ago and she looks like your are describing. I am scared"
When she was talking the witch doctor's son just sat down on the floor and started crying�She told him to go and check may be is the woman at the mortuary�
The man went and checked to the mortuary it was his mom. He went to report the sad news to his family.

When Sello returned from work in their culture there when the man is eating the woman must seat and talk to him to give him some appetite. The woman started reporting to his husband what happen during the day.
Kalao was in the kitchen hearing what his uncle was talking with his wife. He tried to find himself a preoccupation in the kitchen. He tried to open the tool trunk and decided to fix a broken cupboard door.
He knee to the broken door, on the red floor that Jeanne used to polish twice a week.
Sello was eating the popular African menu Pap made on maize flour and the Springbok meat. He had a good earning allowing him to eat meat everyday. The low income earner relied most on the vegetables. Vegetable was very cheap:
"�The man described the woman who looks like the witch we killed" Jeanne told his husband "Then he went to the mortuary and never returns to report since then"
"We are in trouble now"
"What, Kalao have killed a witch how can we be in trouble?"
"If is that woman we are in trouble"

She may be a witch but her family may sue them. Sello didn't understand how the woman left their neighbor's address? He understands and suspects that there is something fishy. In their culture the always say: most of the time the witches or bad man is the one with whom you share the same food's plate. That means a person that you trust the most, your closest friends or relatives is the one who may kill you. He knows your weakness and your strength.
"This is little bit strange." Sello said.

Jeanne didn't understand how the missing woman left their neighbor's address too but how the witch ended up in they yard and at their bedroom window?
In Jeanne village they say that your enemy is your best friend or the one who is close to you. It is him who knows you better and may sell you like Juda sold his mentor Jesus Christ.
Sello stop eating and started analyzing: how do the woman left the neighbour address to her children and end up at his window naked, then he realized a coming troubled and blamed his wife: "You are the one who screamed, you didn't suppose to scream to alert everybody."

For Sello if Jeanne didn't scream they might have hide the incident to the public. When she screamed she alerted everyone and they come and saw the incident and the news is known everywhere, the news paper reported in the news not describing the witch's name.
"Hey, how could I hide my emotion seeing the blood of a witch to our window Sello?" Jeanne said "It was impossible to keep quiet man."

The witch family went to sue the neighbor and in the late afternoon the police come to catch him but he wasn't there. With the report they got they caught Kalao. And supposed to appear the next day to court. Everybody in the community sympathized with Kalao. They felt bad and unhappy when they heard that Kalao have been arrested for killing a witch.

Lindu Bukoba the neighbour who dreams of Sello to make an accident in the mine so he can pave his way to the beautiful Jeanne when returned to his houses heard the news that the police come to look for Kalao because he knew that the secret was known. He was also scared a possible revenge from the witch family whom knew his address and the community member who were mobbing bad people. He was ashamed to face his neighbour Sello again and the member of the community. He knew that he will be persecuted too.
He fled without taking his belonging.
The unlucky Kalao didn't have the opportunity to escape the law. The community people said that they were ready to hide in their house Kalao to escape the justice but they were caught by surprise.

The day of the judgment many people of the community and Kalao choir colleague went to support Kalao. Sello's family were there as Tata and Sello's wife were crying in the court room. The police officers took them out of the court's room. Sello and Temba the choir director find a low educated and cheap lawyer to defend his nephew. The incident caught Sello by surprised and didn't have enough money to get an expensive lawyer. Most part of his salary was spending on Tata medicines and hospital.
The newspapers and the press publicized this case. Most of the Africans believed in witchcraft even thought they were living in town. They were supporting Kalao action.
Kalao has spent time in the local police station unable to eat. They brought him food by Jeanne but the inmates took the food eating the biggest part and giving him few food.
He couldn't believe that what he learnt to his village could have been a crime but according to his understanding it was a self defense.

Kalao saw the judge panel wearing the black clothes. He didn't know why they were wearing black clothes like if they were mourning somebody.
The woman persecutor looks at Kalao and said: "We have witnesses and the police pictures."

They hoped this case will be shorter to their usual case because all the proofs there here. "I am so amazed to see a young man who supposed to be at school in our court rooms. This is strange; parents must try to send children to school so they may not be in crimes activities. If you keep your children out of school specially teenager end up doing crimes: killing, prostitution�"

Kalao saw Mpawo they lawyer his uncle hired him. He had a pile of documents with him. But he was trembling of fear. It look like this case was big for him and it was his first major case. It took time to talk hesitating at the start. Kalao look at the black pant Mpawo was wearing and could see the fear in this lawyer. He was seeing the pant lines moving like if they was a strong wind. At some stage Mpawo drop some paper and document he was reading.
Kalao in fact wasn't that scared. He participated at many judgments in Kisangu.
Kalao lawyer started by defending his client:

"My client just arrived now from Kisangu a village. There are no schools there and my client went to school for four years at 20 kilometers to the village called Kumato. You may check in the map to localize that area. It is far from town and the civilization is slow to penetrate�My client have only tree months in Leonville and do not know how rural and town rules. He is in a learning process�"
The judge wasn't even interested to find a map and check an unknown village may be not even mention in the map:

"It is not a reason to kill. Killing still a crime even in America, Europe, Asia, Australia or other part of the World. From town to any village that exist in this World. The man has stub with the intention of murdering the poor woman who didn't have any weapon. He stub 13 times the woman include to the neck according to the report I have here...This man have to be kept out of the community for many years. He is too dangerous to the community."
For the modern law ignorance was never an excuse.
The inexperienced lawyer run immediately short of words as he started talking with a crying tune: "It was not intentionally."
"Stubbing 13 times? Not once not twice but 13 times? The man his too dangerous to the community."

It was in self defense that my client killed the woman, he was surprised and shocked to see at around 12 hours in the afternoon while everybody are sleeping. A woman who was breaking into their house. It is a normal reaction; my client was so angry, astonished, surprised, unhappy�

Kalao got angry of the persecutor. In they culture the women must be soft of heart but this woman wasn't. Instead of supporting him, she wanted him to face the criminal�s charges. On top of that she stood straight like the alphabetical words I (i). He wondered if his husband his submissive to her or she was submissive to her husband. What an insult to the African tradition. A woman who supposed to be in the kitchen wants to command men like a general.
He looks at angrily the persecutor who was doing her clothes with long dressed hair.
The prosecutor opens an old and dusty file:

"We have the report here that the woman was mentally disturbed and may be she lost her address and find herself in Sello's house because we don't believe in witchcraft because it doesn't exist. The woman was mentally disturbed and found herself nude in Sello's yard. The medical file shown that the woman had suffered for sometime from cerebral malaria that eventually could have damaged her mind."

When the prosecutor finished this sentence the community members get angry, outraged and started make noise and throwing papers and soft objects to the judges insulting them of corrupt and screaming:
"Corrupt judges"
"How can you call a witch a mad?" some screamed.
"You don't even believe in witchcraft" Some people complained.
"You are all corrupt."
The court was interrupted for thirty minutes as members of the police and security service come to restore order and took out some of the members of the community out of the court room. Then the judge continued: "A normal human cannot walk without clothes."

It was only after this incident that the fear in Mpawo disappeared. Now he was talking not sounding like reading the documents.
The lawyer defended his client:

Your honour, I know that the modern law do not believe in witchcraft and I am not telling you to change your law but to try to balance the fact. My client is from a rural area and know nothing about urban law. In village they punish witches by killing them. My client has arrived in this town not long ago, I mention and I will mention that my client is new in the town and he is in process of learning new culture and law. I think you have been lucky to be born in town and in the new civilization. Myself I am from a semi rural small town well know Sula were there are many Muslim and it why now I am a Muslim. I want to make my point. When I arrived here, I had many problems to adapt to the new culture. It took me years to adapt to the civilization. Please my honor try to look at those facts before making a decision. Your decision must be balanced to those facts. Your are insisting that the woman is mentally disturbed. Tell me how come a mentally disturb, a crazy or even a fool not only that I can add even a drunk man can find himself late in the night at Sello's house. I will tell you that that woman knew what she where she was going and what she was doing because she left the address of where she were going to his children then we don't know how she find her self in the neighboring 's house. She supposed to be at Sello's neighbor 's house. We don't know what happen because the neighbour who supposed to clarify the matter has disappeared. He have disappear because is guilty. If you are not guilty how can you run away from the law? That woman was not mad or mentally disturbed. How can a mental disturbed woman find herself at 15 kilometers far away from her house, we could understand if she was find at about a 1 or 2 kilometers away? She was not mentally disturbed. They had a plan with Sello's neighbor who still at large to kill Sello because she was find on Sello's window. The good people or even mad, drank man and mental disturb people enter the house by their door. But bad people and robbers enter by windows. Kalao tried to save his uncle, the only way to save was to act and he did just that�He acted in self defense.

The lawyer even drops again his file he was holding. When he was picking up his file the lawyer made up his mind:

Kalao was a Juvenile but they refused to take it in consideration because in two months he had to be 18 years old. The other reason was the atrocity of the murder he committed stabbing 13 times.

We understand, law still law and we have to teach to everybody that those illusions called witchcraft must be punished. Not one is above the law. We have had many cases of people killing even the closest friends and relatives because of witchcraft and we punish them. We have to punish severely those cases so in future all human must be respected. If Kalao didn't suspect the woman of a witch she could have been alive today. Sello's neighbor will be caught one day and he will be severely punished too specially for trying to escape the law. We have to respect everybody's life. We are all equal. The woman is simply a mentally disturbed, her family and the medical reports have confirmed that she has suffered before from malaria a deadly disease that affect the nerves sometime.

The judge lifts up that file of medical reports. The state case relied mostly on these medical reports: "This is the report."

Amina used to be a mother of a big family of 8 children she was a bread winner too. Her husband has passed away many years ago. Tell me because of illusions Kalao have killed a responsible woman. Who will look after those children? In few days those children may be out of school, those children may turn to be criminals and prostitutes�Because of an act of a young and irresponsible man who is even younger than some of her children. They are more suffering coming into that family may be they will be beggar or will die from hunger because of some kind of belief in the community. We have looked at also to the fact that Kalao has just arrived from a far away village. We have decided to warn other people in the community to avoid those criminal acts. The young men have been sentenced to 20 years of imprisonment with a chance of serving half of his sentence as parole. From now the case is closed you have many chances of making some appeals�

Shock in the community members as some menaced of beating the judge outside the court. Sello couldn't believe that the young man who he loves so much and whom he just brought in town have been just sentenced started crying. His dream of starting a business has been seriously hit. What a mess Kalao who was trying to save his family has been turned to a criminal. Sello's, choir's members and some community members and other members of the family cried watching Kalao going in his new home (jail) for at least the next 10 years.

It was really a funeral and indirect mourning: Hundreds and hundreds of people gathered for many days at Sello's home to comfort his family. Choir members also come they just lost a man who have become they hope for the last two months, community members and Sello's work colleagues were coming too. Every body was unhappy with the court decision. The community members went on to burn Sello's neighbor house no one was injured and no one was arrested this time.
Sello and his family went to visit Kalao for the first time in Prison after five days plus Sello best friend Simba and Vuyo. Kalao was a traumatized by all the event finding himself in prison despite the support of the community. He was wearing the green uniform of the prisoners:
"I cannot believe what I am seeing here." Sello said "How were your first days in prison?"
"Very bad and very bad, this not a place to live."

It was very difficult for Kaloa and very difficult for his family too. They couldn't believe that the judges didn't want to listen to their side of story and the call of the community members.
It is the first time for Sello to visit prison as his nephew complains:
"I better die than spending twenty years in prison." Kalao said "This is real hell, I was wondering if really God have punished me?"

Sello shook his head and believed that God still God, he may come up with a miracle, where end human's intelligence and strength start his intelligence and strength.
Kaloa shocked his uncle: "I even stop praying and I don't want to see even the Bible."
Sello a big believer was shocked that because Kalao is disappointed by God according to him has stopped believing in the Bible:
"Don't do that!"
"God have abandoned me when I needed him the most."
"God do not abandon his children, it only a test of your faith."
"Test in prison with criminals?"
"I know that it is very difficult for you and I understand your anger." Sello encouraged him "We are also very disappointed too; we are planning to challenge the decision of the jury. We are trying to appeal the decision to sentence you at 20 years in prison."

If there was a way to commit suicide, Kalao could have done. They don't have knife in prison, no metal spoon or any think sharp to commit suicide. There was not way to grab even a knife from the security guard or warder in jail because they were not walking with weapon was the inmates where. They only had weapons outside the prisons to use if there is an uncontrollable situation. They make sure that you suffer for many years in jail without committing suicide. If those possibilities of committing suicide were available many inmates could have kill themselves.
"I am looking forward to commit suicide." Kalao swore.
Kalao has look for a shape object to cut his throat but didn't find. He look at a place were to hang even his pant and hang himself but there was nothing like that available. The correctional service has made sure not to give many desperate prisoners a possibility to commit suicide.
"Please stop having many though. I am your uncle and I am fighting for you freedom."

As long Kalao is not free, Sello is not free too. Kalao's freedom is their freedom. Jeanne, Sello's wife cannot even eat properly anymore. Sello was not in peace, every night and everyday he kept thinking of his nephew. He was planning to resign from the dangerous work in the mine and concentrate on business. Before Sello's resignation he wanted to make sure that Kalao works on his private business before he join him in those activities full time. His business and his life, Tata and all the family have been hit by a bullet. Sello's heart was bleeding from pains. He doesn�t know what to tell to his sister Fonfon the mother of Kalao and the all family and villagers in Kisangu.

At least Kalao didn't want his mother Fonfon to be hurt: "Keep quiet."

How can Sello keep quiet because she will eventually know even after one year. It was a much publicized case and the businessmen who go to their native region will eventually reveal the drama. They were lucky because in their village there is no television, no radio or new papers. Many don't know how to read and write. But the sad story will be revealed. In they tradition they says that bad news travel fast that the good news.

This case was headlined by all the press in the town. It was the latest interesting case, the witch craft that many hate and believed against the modern law:
"Life is so bad and injustice." Kalao complained "If really I knew that I will end up in this house really I would never accepted to be born and see those events."

Kalao regretted for being born. He wish that he was never be born and witness what he was going through.

"Believe me, we are praying and fasting to find a way how to get you out of the jail. Keep secret, our plan his to help you to escape from the prison."
"It is impossible."
"Why?"
"There are many doors to our cells. To escape you need open more than ten well protected doors." Kalao explained "I am aware of the security system outside the prison, there are stand bye cars and armed security. I was expecting to see inside the armed securities, but there are not armed. They don't have guns?"

Simba and Vuyo advised Sello that there is a way to escape from jail. They wanted to help Kalao to escape and return to the rural area where the police may never find him.

They suggested even to smuggle a gun into the jail so Kalao may use it to terrorize the warders and run away.
The prison law does not allow the warder to carry weapon inside the cells. The criminal may take it and use it to flee the prison but outside the prison or cell you will see some carrying guns.
Kalao knew that that it is very difficult to escape, many access doors in the prison then outside many armed securities but Sello wanted to trying to talk to some personal who works in prison and find the way to steal Kalao.
Sello and his best friends: Simba and Vuyo were studying all the strategy option. But Sello was not only relying only on their effort to escape at the other side him and Temba were pushing also the appeal to change the judge verdicts.
He encouraged his nephew: "Be strong you won't spend many years again in jail. You didn't answer me at my first question, how is the prison life?"

Life in prison is not good at all, they wake up early in the morning then they get ready for the morning meal. They make queue and they served them by the inmate who have been in jail for a many years. Before getting meal they clean the cell by group. Each group have is own turn to clean the cell. They are many cells in the block of prisons.
After the meal they seat in a sun some of the inmate goes to different training academies: mechanic, making furniture and others academies. They have also some choirs in jail, Kalao was planning to join one of the choir.
At around one in the afternoon they queue for the lunch after the lunch they rest for one hour ten they go back to their cells. At around tree in the afternoon the cells are locked. The warders come to count them. They count them some time tree times to make sure that the number is correct.

They are many gangs groups in the jail. Each group has their kind of tattoos. Sunday there are many groups of churches in the play ground. Some of the prisoners are pastors in churches in the prison. Some pastors from the town come to preach too in prison. There are many sport activities too. The sad moment is when they call the prisoners to be realized each morning.
Kalao always feel bad because he still have many years to go while some of us are counting days to leave but Kalao his counting years. Just the fact that you don't have freedom is a capital punishment. Some people do not mind to live in jail, they have been in and out of the jail cells all their life.
Many are homosexual and propose to other inmates. They are not allowed to have a bath before four hours in the morning, they bath in group. They were sixty in their cell and each cell has their leaders called cleaner.
Kalao saw some knife in jail; he heard that they stab people in jail. The warders come to check some time the cell for those knifes but the prisoners are hiding the knife and the warder don't find them. This is another world�
Sello realized how life is tuff in jail, this motivated him to pursue a plan to steal his nephew from jail: "Praise God that they didn't gave you the capital punishment to kill you. As long you are alive there is a hope that you be out one day. Our time have finish we have to go�My wife want to talk to you."
Sello wife approached Kalao with his her two children Bwalya and Shona who asked Kalao wearing the all green uniform: "Kalao are you a soldier?"
"Why?"
"I see you wearing green uniform like militaries."
"I am a soldier to be but I am not yet a soldier."
"Why you don't come to see us any more? I always keep some food for you."
"I will come to see you and I am happy that you have visited me."
"I am happy but I am not complete because mom said that you are not coming with us." the child said "When are you coming?"
"Don't worry, I will come soon."
"We are waiting for you."
They didn't bring with them Tata because they knew that he won't accept the pain of seeing jail and that could precipitate his death.
Then Sello's wife talked to Kalao: Our time is almost up. I will come next week to visit you. I am very upset when I see you in this uniform; I pray that our appeal succeed."
"How is the grand father, Tata?"

Tata was fine but there wasn�t been a major improvement of his health, he didn't collapse again but he is getting weak and weak. Jeanne Sakina communications with him have improved. He didn't come today because he was very weak and we didn't want to disturb him in bringing him in the prison. Seeing you behind bars may damage his poor wealth.
Please keep him away from me, he may not take it to see me behind bars with many warders.

Jeanne Sakina brought Kalao some food but the warders didn't want to give him the food but I am living some money on the counter here.
"Thank you, I will buy some food here in our shop. We have a shop with some few articles."
"Be strong, we love you and miss you."
"My greeting to grand father."
"I will definitely tell him that you are fine".
"Have a safe journey back home."
"Be strong, don't blame God for the situation you are into now. One thousand years in God's eyes is only one day".
"I am ready to talk about God now."

Time was up, and Simba and Vuyo who wanted to encourage Kalao to be strong didn�t have time to talk to Kalao. They were decided to talk to some of the warders so they may discuss of a plan to steal Kalao. They were convinced that there was a way to run away from this correctional house.

They watched helpless Kalao returned in his cell while Jeanne was crying. She met Kalao for few months and really become fun of Kalao. Kalao who was still jobless was spending a lot of time with Jeanne. The only time he was away his when he was going twice a week and the weekend in the afternoon for rehearsing.
She was away from Kalao when she goes to the market too. But the rest of day they spend time chatting. Kalao was never short of stories; he was always having some thing to tell about the rural area life. And Jeanne was telling him about her life in their village and in town, she left the village when she was ten years old. She followed her sister in town who was married by a businessman.
Her brothers in law raise her until at the age of twelve she was about to recruited by a Englishman who was recruiting model.
The Englishmen was walking in the big city and even in the village looking for beautiful woman who look like model.
He saw Jeanne Sakina when she was going to the market to buy food for her family. He followed her. Jeanne was raised and thought to avoid talking to the boy.
Each time she passed on street they boys were whistling and follow her. She didn't have a chance to attend the school. The old white man who was known by the name of Englishman because his French was so poor followed her in his small mini cooper until she entered her sister house.
He stopped the car outside the yard and without any fear entered the yard. Jeanne sister accepted to talk to him in asking him question but holding a kitchen knife with her: "What do you want? You are too old to marry my young sister."
She suspected that the Englishmen wanted to marry her. In this part of the world and in the African tradition the boy friend and girl friend didn't exist only fianc�, fianc�e or husband and wife. They were strict to the good morality.
Dozen of people wanted to marry Jeanne.
The Englishmen was not afraid of the knife she saw potential in this young girl. "I don't want to marry her. I want to give her an opportunity to be a top model in the world."
After about ten minutes of chatting. Jeanne Sakina's sister allowed him to enter their house.
They chatted for a long time until her husband arrived. They didn't want to make any decision without the authorization of Jeanne family and the pastor.
They analyzed the good or the bad of this profession. Englishman promised to give them money, cars and houses...But he was astonished by the parent refusal after two months.
They didn't want their daughter to be a bitch. �A bitch� for them was an independent woman. They were sticking to their traditional value of respecting the woman's body that walking semi naked.
The African loved the big women called: �African built woman�. The parents dreams to see their children to marry African�s built woman. They believed that big pelvis keep well the unborn baby.
Sello and Kalao were one of the few Africans who loved slim women. What the Africans were rejecting was wanted by the fashion�s world. And what they wanted was rejected by the world of modeling.
In Leonville even the miss competition was bans. They believed that all the women are ugly and beautiful. Only prostituted minded and women with a poor moral will walk semi naked while the men with a poor moral will clap his hand watching the real immorality of the stage.

Jeanne then when she was fifteen years old was chassed by her sister because he suspected that his husband was developing a love feeling. It was during the couple love making session that Jeanne's brother in law forgot and screamed the name of Jeanne instead of his wife. That single words brought many conflicts. Jeanne sister has just had the confirmation of what she was already suspecting. Her young sister sharing with her one husband. But there was nothing like that. She went to live with her cousin until Sello met her at the church and marry her five years later. The sister could share everything but not a man.

Simba was very determined to talk to one of the warder before they left the prison. The warden was wearing the usual khaki uniform, rushing outside the prison: "I wanted to talk to you."
"Me?"
"Yes."
"Can I help you?"
"I wanted to talk to you in private."
"Why in private?"
"I have a serious matter that I cannot talk to in this environment."
"I am scared" the prison warder said "why you want to talk in private and especially to me."
"Brother" Simba said "I don't know you and I am not ready to talk to you".
"It is not a big matter, I needed some advises my nephew is in prison and I needed some help from you."
"Help?"
"Yes, some help."
"This is crazy man, your nephew must complete is sentence, one day or hundred years."
"I know but his case is quiet complicated."
"The case is not complicated while you are sentenced you have to stick to the law. I am sorry I won't talk to you in private."

The warder left without agreeing to talk in private to Simba. Simba was real a Lion. His name meant Tau or lion in English or French. In they tradition they believed that the children inherit the character of their name. Simba was never scared or shy of anyone. It him who opened the door for his friend Sello and Vuyo. He left them in Sula and alone he went to the big city Leonville got a job and called his friend to join him. He eventually got another job at Coca Cola where he was already a supervisor.
He was the one who told his friend to live the village even thought he was running away of being burned. He used to motivate his friend to hang on in the difficult situation.
That job he got for his friend open their life. They all had good job and were well respected in the community.
Still he was not allowed to return to his native village were they accuse him of being a witch.
He was a man of decision. He does what it comes into his mind without any delay.
An idea comes into his mind to convince Jeanne the women in the group to talk to the warder.
Jeanne was already desperate telling to Simba who was still behind reading the faces of warders.
He was scared to talk to warder who had rude face and was looking for a friendly face to talk too.
Jeanne was calling him: "Let go Simba, what are you trying to do?"
"I don't want to do any stupid thing; I want to invite one warder to my place and try to talk to him."

They knew that he may do something stupid that will affect all of them. They knew him better and his friend wives knew him very well too.
Jeanne was trying to get his attention: "Next time may be."
There are hundred of warders here one will definitely agree to talk to my place. I have approach only one warder why are you already desperate?

Jeanne told Simba: "Your approach is not good and no warder will accept your invitation." Jeanne decided to make a move "Let me try to approach one warder"
"Try may be they may accept your invitation as a woman."

Jeanne hesitated for a while and she realized that it may be a good idea too if she try to talk to a warder. May be one of them may accept they invitation.
This time Sello's wife approach another warder: "Excuse me brother, I want to talk to you."
"Me?"
The warder was quick attracted by the beauty of the woman who wanted to talk to her. His name was Musasa. He wondered how come this beautiful creature wanted to talk only to him not to anyone else?
"Of course you."
"Can I help you?"
"I wanted to invite you to my place." Jeanne said "I don't know if you could accept my proposition to have a dinner with my family so we may discuss a small matter."
"That is sounds interesting." Musasa said "I am only available Sunday; I would love to come to your house. Can I have the clue of the matter?"

Jeanne was trying to act to really get the attention of Musasa.
It is my first time to come to prison. I come to visit my nephew who have been arrested or sentenced five days ago. It is very difficult for me and my family to live with the fact that he was innocent but find himself in your custody. I want some kind of your advises. You work here, we are trying to cop with to this situation.
The warder become little bit reluctant: "Sister, if there is no prisoners, we won't have job or salaries. It is a bad news to you but the prisoners are making our jobs possible and by working we support our families."
"You are right but some few advises from you will help us to cop with the situation for the rest of our lives."
The warder thought for few seconds and said: "It is sounds good; I don't know why I have to reject your invitation. It is not a sin to socialize."
"Let me give you my address."
She gave the warder the address. The warder took quick the paper on which Jeanne wrote her address. But he was disappointed that the woman was surrounded by many men and had two children on his side. Musasa was twenty fours years old and was married too. He was father of one child.
When his hand touched the woman's hand he regretted inside him telling to himself that he should have wait for some years to get this kind of woman but he rushed in getting married when he got a job: "I will wait for you this Sunday."
"I will come around one in the afternoon."
"It will be our pleasure to talk to you." Jeanne happily said "I am sorry for disturbing you and taking your valuable time to talk to us"
"There is no problem to accept your invitation." the warder said "We are human and have friends and families outside our jobs."
"See you this Sunday."
"See you."
Sello left with his family and close friends while chatting to his wife, they were trying hard to forget for a minute Kalao drama. Simba and Vuyo accompanied them to his house and were planning for the Sunday meeting with Musasa.
Simba was happy that one of the warders has accepted the invitation: "He agreed to come to our place because you are a woman."
"It is not a question of being woman or a man. It is the way you approach" Jeanne explained "I know you, you have a brutal approach that scares people. You always start with the point instead of provoking a conversation"
Simba had sometime a bad and brutal approach. Before getting married to his actual wife, he had a woman who he loved a lot but lost her because he wanted to rush the relationship. He once told her: "Let be lovers or enemies not friend". The woman wanted them to be friend first and know each other before jumping the steps. So the woman was so disappointed that Simba was putting her under pressure and choose to be enemies instead of being lovers.
"No, he has agreed because you are woman." Simba was convinced.

Simba was commenting that men do not reject woman demand. It why you will see in the big banks, they employee are beautiful women who attract, male customers. If you are attracted by a beautiful woman who works to a certain bank you will return to the bank and probably invest your money into that bank. The men do not resist to women demands.
The conversation turns to a little joke.
Jeanne who was friend to Simba's wife and Vuyo wife was teasing the courageous Simba: "That is means you men always go to the bank to admire other women whose works there?"
"I know that you are touched, you are the only woman in Sello's life and he only admire you."
"You are lying you have said all."

She always noticed her husband that even when they enter the shops Sello's eyes is always on women and she suspects that he often clicks his eyes when he sees beautiful women.
Sello thought that his woman was getting serious: "I do not appreciate your jealous."

Jealous is the protector of love. They have to be jealous to protect their partner. In that case the protection jealousy is not view as a witchcraft one. Jealousy that hurt someone is view as witchcraft. Jeanne Sakina was always very jealous when she sees Sello talking to other women.
Jeanne confessed: "I don't disagree, I am jealous like all the women and men on the earth"

Jeanne Sakina was not only jealous but she always suspecting his husband of having an affair even thought he was a Christian. They were living in Africa where polygamous his the way of life. Men often pretend not to have affairs outside marriage but the day he dies, ten children outside their marriage come to mourn you and weeping: Daddy is gone.
Sello tried to tell her why polygamy is not on his mind:

Sello was not shy to remind his wife in presence of his best friend that he was Christian and he was a very dedicate man of God. He insisted that he was very am honest with his wife. The only child he shown Jeanne is the only child he has outside their relationship. It was not mistake and he will never make another child outside marriage or have other love relationships.
In their culture a life of a human was never a mistake but a destiny. Sello made a child with a woman who lived two streets away from Okapi street. He had an affair four years ago.
That affair almost cost him the marriage. It was by the intervention of the pastors and his best friend Simba and Vuyo that Jeanne returned home after two months.

Sello wanted the child born outside the marriage called Dumisani to have the same privilege like Bwalya and Shona. He was forcing the child to often visit him at home and play with the other child. Jeanne had difficulties to accept but with time she accepted that child.
Dumisani sometime come to sleep over and Sello was forcing his wife to buy him the same clothes like her biological child.
The four years old Dumisani was still not know who was really her mother because he called Jeanne and her mother Nomsa mother. He believed that he was blessed because he has two mothers while he has one father Sello.

Sunday, Sello's wife cooked an expensive meal: meat, vegetable and boa. The bought many beers and cold drinks. Musasa the prison warders come around one hour in the afternoon as he promised. He was not wearing the khaki warden uniform but he was wearing a black suit. He invited also the choir director Temba who was very concern about the arrest of Kalao. Sello's best friends: Vuyo and Simba were there too. Sello was the first one to introduce the subject.
They were all seating on the dinning room that has six chairs next to it was the living room with four chairs.
They were playing the popular music of the time. The Rumba of Franco, Tabuley, Kabasele and other popular singer of Congo.
The most popular singer in Congo was all based in the capital city of Congo Kinshasa:
"I am happy brother that you accepted our invitation" Sello welcomed the warder "What is again your name?"
Sello had a problem with remembering the other's people names and people didn't appreciate it because it sounded like he shown less interest to other. It was his nature.
"My name is Musasa." The warder said.
"Thank you for coming Musasa, we where so upset coming to prison."

It is their first time to visit prison; Sello has been many times to court but not in prison. They only heard about prison and see prison in movies. It was a shock and still a shock for all the family that their nephew that he went to fetch very far in his village Kisangu has been sentenced to twenty years.
"Twenty?" the warder was astonished
"Yes, twenty."
Sello started explaining the long story:

I took my nephew to come and help me in my business project. I am a miner and I work in a very dangerous sector. I lost many colleagues and friends. I am very lucky to be alive and talking to you today. I was planning to leave the job once my private business succeeds. My nephew is a good singer and was returning from a wedding invitation where they sang. Just after tree months in this urban area. He was dropped bye the director of his choir Temba Ben who is with us here. It was around 12 hours in the afternoon. He saw a witch who was sent by neighbour and friend next door to perform some ritual so I get into an accident and die. The witch was naked at my bedroom�s window. He was shocked and stabbed the woman who died. We didn't know the woman until his son come to search him two days later, when we were about to hide my nephew Kalao from the justice system he was caught by the police and the neighbor who sent the witch have since disappeared without any trace.

Musasa knew that story, it was published almost everyday in the news papers.
He didn't know that they were related: "I am very sorry to hear and to learn that it was your nephew."

Kalao was living in the village, where they kill and burn witches and he did the right thing according to the traditional laws. But in urban area the judges didn't want to acquit him, they went far supporting the witch who wanted to kill me as a mental disturbed woman. He was sentenced to twenty years in prison.
"I understand that it is very hard for you." Musasa explained.

Many people supported his nephew and they all support your nephew as African for killing a witch but the modern law in place in town does no believe in witchcraft. They don't accept all the witch theories. They call them mental disoriented while they are killing them and sending them bad luck. The traditional court is very different to the modern courts.

Kisangu wasn't that far situated at about 800 kilometers. 200 kilometers were they used buses. 400 kilometers were they use train. 200 kilometers were they use truck. About 20 kilometers were they use feet or bicycle and about a 1 kilometers they use a small boat. It was not really very far but the poor infrastructure makes it very far. They have to travel for weeks by walking, small boat, train and bus to reach the village while from here to Europe we catch one plane and in less than 8 hours we are in London, Paris or other cities in Europe 8 000 kilometers away.
The warder commented too on the poor infrastructure on the continent:
It is strange that the roads are very poor, it easy to travel to Europe than in our own village.

His village was situated a five days away of traveling from Leonville. He was catching a 100 kilometers bus and 200 kilometers of a ship. It was at the other side. Then walk for about 10 kilometers. The boat was taking long.
They were self made boat, using the engine of trucks or tractors mill machines. It was very slow in the water. It used to be also over loaded with goods and people. It takes Musasa about two years to visit his family and friends.
Simba felt bad that he wasn't even allowed to visit his family. For him Leonville was his family. Once he return to Kumato where he is originated he will face the death sentence. He was also a victim of witchcraft and wanted Kalao to be victim too. He cannot visit Kumato and wanted Kalao to relocate in rural area so he can never visit Leonville.

It is very sad that in town they were starving some time for food while plenty of foods are rotten in the villages. The villagers sometime were looking desperately the food unable to reach the big city. The businessmen were not able to take all the food. While in town the shortage of food makes the price rise every time.
They were always touched to see on television in other country and place the dramatic image of people dying from hunger.
When there is a lot of rains the rural area road are cut off the urban area. The road will be unpredictable with the bridge swept away, the mud...for many days sometime many months.
The self upgraded trucks are not good enough to transport all the agriculture products.
Temba added: "Those trucks belong in the museum in Europe; they don't even operate in our town. There are made by local mechanic whom uses different spares to make the engine. Toyota spares mix to V.W and other different cars parts."
All the literate people in town always criticize the government. It is impossible where there are literate people not to criticize the government policies: "Let say that the government concentrate more on towns than villages. All the minerals that we produce do not help us to build our own villages?"
"It is strange, even us miners we are not well paid." Sello explained "We work for peanuts; we don't know where the minerals are going exactly? The buyer fix the price of our own minerals can you imagine!"
Actually the miners� money wasn't that bad because many people envied them. But there was no one who was satisfies with his earning. They all complain.
Vuyo was very allergic to the independence of many African countries: "we rushed in asking for independence while the European didn't finish their construction jobs. We cannot even maintain what their left, we are even destroying the few infrastructure their left."
The political subject is endless, Sello return to his most important subject of the day: "Let go back to our subject, we will never finish complaining. I wanted to get some advises from you who works in the prison. You have many different cases. How can I save my nephew from the long sentence?"
"Nothing." the warder sadly sad.

It easy and very easy to get into prison but extremely very difficult to leave prison. Once your are sentenced it is very difficult to leave the prison. The security system have been improved and his improving every time to stop prisoners from escaping. All the prisoners who are sentenced for life are only trying and hoping to escape the prison. Many escaped before and the government has improved the security system in jail. They will have other security access from Europe to fortify the system that they have currently in place.
Sello touched his face; he just heard what he didn't want to be heard: "What can we do?"
"I am afraid that it is too late."

Some are escaping from the police custody. In the police system the security system is not so tied there but it is also difficult to escape in the police custody too. Some steals the files or docket before the criminal his sentenced in the court. Some are intimidating the witness. A case without witness never leads to the sentenced of the accused.

Sello knew that modern court do not believe in witchcraft as an excuse but he was not expecting the law to be so hush to my nephew. He refused to blame his nephew who did what was done in village. Sello recalled the event when he was called in the traditional court when he visited his village. He saved many witches from being killed and their accepted his proposition with many difficulties. He doesn't don't know if they returned to theirs ancient practices when he left the village. They never know, the traditional court is very different and very unpredictable. The big witness in Kalao�s case in the modern court was the picture taken by the police.
Temba added: "But some prisoners escape too?"
The warder explained: "It is very difficult but it happen may be twice a year where few escape. What is certain his that we always caught them. Once you escape or try to escape you add many more years on top of your initial sentence."
In the rare case some of the corrupt warders helped the prisoners to escape but the department of correctional service was getting ride of the corrupt and suspected corrupt warders.
"Things are very complicated than we thought." Sello confessed.
The warder tried to give them an advice: "The only way is to appeal and to reappear to the high court. It is a process that will take many more than a year."
The condition in jail was not suitable for Kalao as he told the warder: "My nephew have been complaining."
"That is normal." Musasa said "All the newest inmates always complain to that new life but with time he will get use to it and it will come a new way of life."
"He told me about homosexual in jail�"

They have law and the human right monitors the jail. It happens that some are rapped but it is a minority and he think that Kalao won't be part of that group of minority. The homosexuality is consent of many prisoners who find a new way to please their normal human desire. But some prisoners were punishing the new comers who were involved in big crimes. Like rapping elders or babies. Like killing people for funs in bedding with them. Some warders some time supported the inmates� action.

Disappointed even the director Simba confessed too: "Things are more complicated that we thought."
"I told you that it is very easy to get into prison but very difficult to get out of jail." Musasa reminded them.

Some escape with guns that are bought in by corrupt warders. Last time their fired more than ten warders from participating in that syndicate. The prisoners who where escaping where shoot dead outside the prison and two were rearrested after two months. He told them that if Kalao escape from jail he won't be a free man outside jail. He will be hiding until he will be caught. He insisted: "You don't want to nephew to be on the hide for the rest of his life? The only way is to appeal"
Vuyo too didn't believe that think will be this complicated. They were ready to contribute with money to help Kalao to escape. Vuyo said: "This is the sadness news I didn't want to hear. I will try to appeal as soon as possible."
If you keep appealing your nephew may end up serving only twelve years may be with parole he may end up serving the half of twelve years sentence and be free in six years time.
Temba Ben insisted: "Even one year in prison for Kalao is a lot. I need him in my choir."
I know that with time you all get used to it. Time is the biggest healer especially when it come to live with this challenge. Your nephew still young by the time he wills thirty years old he may be out of the jail and restart a new life. Many people start their family at the age of thirty.
Sello thanked the warder who accepted their invitation: "I am fortified by your advise. I will keep visiting him to comfort him and appeal to the decision too. Thank you for all you time and effort in accepting our invitation."
"Your nephew needs your visit, especially now he is in a very disappointed moment."

Musasa begged them to please visit him often as possible, he is new in prison and need more support from his family and friends. But after many months when he will start coping his complains will diminish. It is hard for him but also very hard for all the people who supported him. They have to spend time and money to see him. What is important for Kalao is alive not dead. Any change in the leadership of the government he may pardoned by the new administration. He didn't encourage them to smuggle a gun into jail by corrupt prison warden. That won't work especially he was sentenced alone and will try to escape alone. Then once out of the jail he won't be free and may be recaptured any time. Many who escaped by getting gun from corrupt warders are those who are sentence in group for example bank robbers. They have noticed that they work in group. Anyway many do not escape alive from the prison. There are shot and killed too. They can corrupt one or two prison warders but not hundred warders. The few warders they might corrupt may help them but many whom are not corrupt will try to do their job. Their job is to prevent prisoners from escaping. The few that escape are recaptured soon or later. You cannot gain freedom by escaping. He insisted: "If you force and go ahead with your plan. Kalao might get shot in that escaping process by none corrupt official. I think you don't want him to die this young."
Sello realized that his plan was not good. This warder was honest and explained them how difficult it is to escape from the detention center: "Thank you for your advice and I really appreciate the fact that you come and you are very honest. Before my wife approached you I approached a warder who refused to take my invitation. I don't regret and I thank God wanted us to talk to an honest and good prisoner warder like you. I understand, I will have to appeal the appeal process from tomorrow Monday"
There was hope for Vuyo. The judges know what the community feels and may be influenced by that fact. If it was not for the community support your nephew could have had the capital punishment, the community some how played a major role for the outcome of the verdict.
Temba recalled, the proceeding in court were disturbed many time by the community, I think that have played a lot on judge's decision. "Do you think the appeal may turn the twenty years in two years serving sentence?"
"I think that it impossible."

Musasa never seen a case where the initially sentence was twenty years diminished to two years but he believed it was possible but he saw in his 4 years career walking at the prison many innocent who were acquitted after serving many years. They nephew case is complicated because the witches family are the witnesses and there are scientific proofs, the medical report and the pictures that the police offices took are living witness.
"Thank you for all the advice." Sello said.
"It is my pleasure to come here and eat the boa." The warder said.

It was very rare to eat the boa. It was a rare meat that was imported from far rural areas. The boa the big snake meat was loved because it was rare, had a lot fat and taste nice. Few people didn't like to eat the boa because they believed that the big snake can swallow the human's been.
It was know of swallowing small animals and stay stuck for many days at the same place until the food or the animal inside him digests.
It when it was always caught by the villagers and hunter in that state and was easily killed.
The uses also the fat from the snake for medical purpose such us to heal the burn wound...
Sello the owner of the house was pleased too: "I am very happy really to talk to you and I would like to create a friendship."
"Really that is my wish."
"Thank you for coming."
"Thank you."

The prison warder left Sello's house at around six hours in the evening. Temba, the choir director, Vuyo, Simba and Sello immediately planned for the appeal procedure.
The man who wanted Kalao to be fugitive of witchcraft in town like him who is the fugitive of witchcraft in the rural area, Simba said: "I am happy that we met a sincere prison warder."

Escaping from jail is not a solution; this could be another crime on top of the previous crime. They have to change tactics, the prisoner warder have told them all the dangers of escaping. The sad news is that Kalao may spend again many years. It is better to fight in the court, if he may get even ten years imprisonment this could be a very good things for them. He is already in jail and they cannot change that fact now.

Temba had another idea for him it was better mobilized again the community to come and support them. Their support does influence the jury decision. The community do not need to be mobilized, their will come to support Kalao when they will read in news papers or hear from the radio that Kalao is appealing to the sentence's decision. He was convinced that the community will come but the must be organized, last time they were not organized. They have to be organized in and outside the court. They have to professionally write on the boards and print some T shirt in the support of Kalao.
Vuyo immediately accepted that proposition: "You are right and we have to be very organized to persuade the judges. Kalao is lucky from avoiding the death penalty because of the community members."

Sello felt that Mpawo the defense lawyer who defended Kalao last time was not bad. He did his job and they wanted to require his services once again to help. But Kalao but Kalao is a very emotional talkative who can defend himself. He may explain what he feels without hiding all the facts. Kalao may explain feeling his filling to penetrate the justice system. Some time lawyer does not translate all the emotions to touch the judges.

Simba agreed: "That a good idea, we don't have nothing to loose let take all the weapon we have and fight the law"

After 6 months of prison of Kalao was allowed to appeal to the court decision. He appealed this time not wearing the civilian clothes but the prison uniforms and the handcuff. Hundred supporters were wearing blue white shirts and black pants. This was they uniforms to well identify themselves. On top of their uniform they all head blue ribbons on their shirts. About fifty people were wearing the T-shirt with the picture of Kalao with different writing on the T shirt. And all of them wearing a white ribbon sign in support of Kalao.

The judges were in their black uniforms ready to take on Kalao and his group. The press was in and out the court houses to describe the scene of the most controversial case the town had in many years. The traditional custom and the rules of the modern court. Kalao was not scared like the previous court appearance. He look very strong than ever and very confident. Sello employed the previous lawyers with some instructions to let Kalao express himself. They wrote to many boards some touching phrases:
"�Pity for Kalao"
"Kalao is a simple innocent man."
"Kalao fulfilled the tradition African law."
"Have a merci for our friend Kalao."
"The witches woman was not mentally disturbed."
"Save the soul of the dying Kalao."
"Another day in paradise for kalao."
"Kalao never kill a witch but punished the witch."
"We miss Kalao and we want him back in the community."
"Kalao is a perfect and innocent citizen of Leonville."
"When can we see Kalao again in the community?"
"We are all behind Kalao."
"Kalao is our hero"
The judge started: "�Kalao, sentenced by the modern court to 20 years jail imprisonment after being found guilty of killing a mentally disturbed woman on the� "
The supporters disagreed immediately at the beginning of the process: "The woman was a witch?"
Some chanting "a naked woman at 12 hour midnight in Sello's yard was not mentally disturbed."
Some attacking the judges. "The judges are corrupt; this is Africa not Europe or America".
- The judged begged the people in the courtroom:

�We haven�t started yet and you are protesting already? This is not a soccer stadium were you are going to support your favorites team but it is the house of law and need to be respected. If you continue with your unpatriotic behaviour the security personal will take you out of the courtroom. We are not here to play? Kalao have murdered and I think that his sentenced was quiet fair for him. We know that they are two laws operating in the country: the modern law and the illegal law in the villages and rural area called the traditional law. The country recognizes the modern court and do not recognize the traditional law. We call the traditional law: the pirate law. The traditional law operates without any legal document; their lawyers are not educated and are making decision based on their own cultural view plenty of inconsistencies. The uneducated lawyers of the traditional law do not look at the scientific fact but act in their policies without looking at all the side effect of their decision. They don't have prison; they punish the guilty their own way and kill without any appeal. It is why we call it piracy law. The modern law is based with the international and constitutional law of all the country of the world. The modern lawyer do not learn the modern law at the back of the house with old drank men who teach as lectures the traditional law but goes to university after completing their primary and secondary school. The modern law is so precise with all the scientific facts. It gives you the chance to appear too. It why the sentenced Kalao is having the second chance to appeal. We don't take chances here, I wanted to tell the community who feels that Kalao was innocent to remember that we are not in a piracy court but we are in an international house of law. This case has draw attention of all the people in Leonville and in the country. In the traditional community or rural area they accept those illusions based on dreams and unrealities. There is no scientific proof of the mix substances that the witch according to your name put on Sello's windows could have killed Sello. If Sello has to get an accident in the mine we could never accept that it was caused by magic from witchcraft but simply by a normal accident happening in many mines. All the miners who die in the mine were not witch crafted. They don't throw substances to their windows before their accidents. Sello the uncle of Kalao works in a very dangerous environment. The defunct woman was only mentally disturbed.

The noises restarted again in the courtroom: "She was not mental disturbed."
"She was a witch not a mentally disturbed." some said
"The judge is corrupt."

The judged continued:

�Thank you, I heard you please hear me again. Suffer to hear me�Your are simply against the words mental disturbed. You have to accept that word until the end of the court proceedings. I am sorry you have to accept that word. Scientifically a normal woman cannot leave her house and go to dance nuked a 12 hours in the evening at someone else window. The woman was mad or crazy. The scientific proofs have shown that the woman was mentally disturbed. The well supported Kalao killed a human; he has stabbed many times the poor woman to death. He didn't kill a chicken or a cow but he killed a mother of a big family. She was a bread winner and took care of 8 children. He ended the life of a responsible woman. It was not an accident but he made sure to kill the woman in stabbing here not once, not twice, not tree time but he stabbed her thirteen times the poor woman.
Kalao lawyer asked for explanation: "Your honour, allow me to explain."
The judge refused to let him speak first and continued to talk to the opposing crowd:

Let me clarify the matter before your speech, I have the impression that it will be a long speech. We believe in magic or witchcraft when it is scientifically proved. Let me tell you witchcraft his about sending bad luck to your neighbor or someone else if you are jealous or for another reason but if the substances are may be put in your drink or food causing you a disease or death. We will examine those substances and if the medical examination prove that the substances in poisonous then we will arrest all the accomplices of that crime.
Mpawo, Kalao's lawyer intervenes:

Your honour, I appreciate the fact that you mention the two kind of court that exist in our country, the modern court or the legal international court recognized by the government operating in urban areas. You also mentioned the piracy court or the traditional court operating illegally in the rural area where there is no prison or appeals. Their judgment and the sentence are immediate. When you are found guilty you are immediately punished or killed the same time. The modern court and law is well known in towns or urban areas but the traditional court his operating in the rural area and the people who lives in the rural areas knows their right in the village. When they get a witch their kill him without no merci. My client did the same when he saw the naked woman he killed her. It was not a mistake because he stabbed her thirteen times. If you recognize that the piracy court exist in the villages, you recognized too that villagers knows that existing court and their obligations. Kaloa have acted to that rural court rules. He could never be questioned for killing a naked woman. In the village they burn the naked woman that their call witches. We are living in a big African town where 90% of the population are from the rural areas and believe in their traditions, it why many people come to support Kalao because they believe in witchcraft even if their live in electrified houses. They all believe in the scientific unproved witchcraft. They all feel that Kalao was unfairly sentenced, we are in Africa and we are sticking to some of our culture regardless our education or our qualifications. I am a lawyer but as an African I believe in witchcraft. I know that jealous people want to kill me, there are not happy that I am a respected lawyer while they don't have dissent jobs. Their wanted to kill Sello who is viewed to be successful: a miner who earns good money compared to many people. His job is respectful in the community. It is a dangerous job but many citizens envy that job. The money he earns his good enough to make a good living in town. He is a bred winner. Kalao still on the transition, he is from a rural area and that incident happen two or tree months of his arrival in town from a rural area, where there is no universities or high school. The have only some primary schools. He was not connected to the modern civilization. He is the few of the villager who went to primary school. Where can you see the teacher teaching law in grade two or grade four? No where, they main things they do is to teach how to read and write. How my client could have known the modern law? If he knew that killing a so called witch or mentally disturbed was against the law he wouldn't do so. The so called mentally disturbed is a human like all the human. Kalao has a mental retarded brother that he loves a lot. Your honour my client have committed a crime and he deserved to be punished, the main point is that he didn't know the modern law. Consider him like a poor man who does not know the Ten Commandments. He has to learn of course and the only way to learn is in prison. The twenty years is not learning punishment to my client but a really punishment to someone who do not knows law. Few imprisonment years may help my client to learn and show to other ignorant citizen that killing any kind of human: normal or mental handicapped is a crime.
The prosecutor intervened: "Let look at the fact, your client has killed?"
"Yes, he have killed but with many cause being his cultural behaviours and ignorance of the modern law."
"You are convinced that he needs to be punished?"
"Yes" the lawyer said "Kalao deserves a learning punishment of his ignorance to the modern law. I said and it is true that he arrived from the rural area at the time of his crime. He didn't have enough time to acclimatize to the new system in towns."
"Let look at to all the facts and we will come back with a final decision."
For the modern court ignorance was never an excuse.
They took a break.
The judges went in their consultation to come up with a decision. The accused party met to look at their chances. Sello quickly talked to their lawyer Mpawo. He looks at very confident and shown a lot maturity this time. He didn't show any fear this time. The community was behind him and he had plenty of time to work on his defense strategy.
Sello wasn't that sure and convinced that the lawyer may change they mind. He lost the first time when he thought that the modern court will easily accept their excuses: "Do you think we stand a chance of being acquitted?"
"We won't be acquitted but we have a strong chance of diminishing the sentence." the lawyer said.
It look like the judge didn't follow Sello's instructions to let Kalao to talk: "I told you to allow Kalao to speak, but you didn't give him a chance to talk."

Mpawo didn't want Kalao to jeopardize the decisions. He wanted to give Kalao a slight change to talk but the judge started with the different argument and Mpawo felt that the case was too intellectual for Kalao to understand and defend himself. "It doesn't matter anymore let pray that the judges are touched by your answers and that the crowd may influence their decisions."

After thirty minutes the judge returned to announce the final verdict. Many Kalao supporters prayed too for a soft decision in favour of Kalao. By the look of the judge their felt that the judgment could be good and in favour this time of Kalao. The judge wrote for two minutes on in files before announcing the decision:

�This case had turn to be the most controversial case of our time. Many people believe in the witchcraft in Africa and the law does not believe in the illusions. We look at those factors and we are ready to give our final verdict. This case still complicated as we are trying to look at all the facts. Kalao as a citizen of this country have killed, it doesn't matter how, where, why and when he did it. The law stills a law and no one is superior or inferior to the law. We have proofs that Kalao was from the rural area where the pirate law reign and operate. We won't blame him for living in those kinds of environment but the law still the law. Kalao be honest with me how many witches did you killed in your village Kisangu?
Kalao though for almost one minute before answering: "I never kill alone a witch we kill in group."
"How do you kill them?"
"Most of the time we burn them alive."

The judge learns that Kalao had a special assignment to write letters for many people in the isolated village and urged Kalao to write to his relative�s, friends and villagers: "Write and tell them that it against the law to kill anyone includes the witches. How many witches you burned in your group?"
"I cannot remember all but I can say close to thirty or fifty."
All the people into the court even his supported were astonished: "Fifty"
"I think so" Kalao said "may be more."

The value of life must be prevented; the government must close those piracy courts existing in many rural areas.

Kalao we are suspending seven years of your serving sentence. We need to teach to many citizens the danger of killing the so called witches who are mostly mentally unstable. We are teaching you and teach the others killers. You have to be the example to the severity of the law. To all whom come to support Kalao, this is a lesson to you; killing so called witches is unlawful. Your hero Kalao his teaching you that witches are human like everybody they don't need to be killed. The only one who has the final words is the law that represents the government. You have to tell and write to your relatives in the villages that killing is a crime to the government's view and sin to God's eyes. Stop taking justice in your own hands; leave the law to do the job. Stop the mobbing system that you are trying to encourage. We are not encouraging the mobbing in our country or any other country in the world. The mobbing his prohibited in all the countries of the world. Kalao your will be serving 13 years imprisonment but we give you chances to appeal again. Each year your serve represent how many times stabbed the mental unstable woman.
There was a wave of relive in the courtroom not forgetting Kalao lawyer, Temba the choir director and his uncle: "This is good news for us."

Especially a chance to appeal again plus the parole. Twenty years was a lot for Kalao, now they can celebrate before finding another strategy to appeal. Kalao may serve may be only 5 years if our next appeal is successful.
"We have won the battle not fight yet." Sello said.
"Thank you God, we may celebrate before another appeal." Themba said. Since Kalao was not singing the choir, they felt something missing. Kalao was not a member in the choir for many years but the few months he sang in the choirs made a big different. He come with the songs, beats and melody from a rural areas much needed in the traditional choir.

"The organization that we initiated played a huge role in the judge final decision." Sello noticed.

The supporters were fair happy that Kalao could return into the community in the next few years after parole. Many on their way back home were chatting the lawyer decision:

For them the lawyer was still corrupt. The lawyer did the right thing Kalao may return to the community soon. Thirteen years is not that a lot. Still a lot for someone who killed a witch, the lawyer supposed to realize him and we could be celebrating on our way back.

For many the reason the judge was still tuff in his decision was to show to the community that killing is unlawful, even if she was a witch. They don't believe in witchcraft. The modern court didn't believe in witchcraft, they need the scientific proofs like poison in the food or drink.

The modern court wanted people to learn to hand the suspected witches and the criminal to the governmental authority or the police officers not to take their own law on their hands in mobbing the criminals.
Mob still existed in different part of the African towns, where the community member will torture and even kill and burn the criminal. But they were running away once the police arrive at the scene and often they were not catching the perpetrators

Unfortunately Kalao has to be an example of mobbing. He is spending many years in jail. The next man who will be court taking the law in his own hand will be seriously punished by the authority. It is a lesson what they are doing to Kalao, he has just arrived from the village and they didn't want to pardon him.

The lawyer tried to mention it but he was not clear enough, they feel that the traditional lawyers are not well educated; they don't have prison and don't want to give a second chance or an appeal to the accused. They doubt the traditional men capacity to solve challenging problem because there are uneducated.
It was very strange and very difficult for African to admit the punishment of someone who killed the bad man. They were living in urban area and they have to live with those norms.

The community defined witchcraft as the process, the ability, the power of sending bad luck to someone else. The bad luck may bring death in family or even close all the opportunity's doors in your life for example you won't be able to find a job or failure in every project you do.

The African hated witchcraft. They ordinary citizen felt that the modern court has no right to deny the witchcraft because the name witch exist in their dictionaries but they don't believe to unproved theories such as a mix substance thrown at your door will cause an accident. They had no right to deny the process of people's nails, hairs or even a peace of your clothes by a witch and send it in form of DNA in the dark world to cause bad luck or death of other's people or family member.

Even in the African urban area people were very cautious with their hairs, nails and peace of clothes. They were always scared that witches may use them to send bad luck in their life or even death. They make sure to hide their nails, hair after cutting: burn them or throw somewhere where no one can see.
The modern court does not simply accept the non approved claim, they want something more proven like a mechanical prove. What the can see, touch and understand. What is more physical realistic than thoughts. They want something like; he physically took your trousers without your permission. Then that act his proven by the trouser he took from you and called robbery. He physically shot or stabbed that act his called murder by an object or a proven substances or poison. They don't want something like an unexplained substances may kill someone without drinking it or eaten it. If it happen that you eat that substance and the examination prove that it was poisonous they will arrest the perpetrators. The judge explained that theory in the court. They don't think that a non poisonous substance or a simply ceremony will bring you bad luck such us accident, death, disease and other bad luck.

It will take many years for the big community to understand that witchcraft is not unexplainable to the modern law.

The community members still believe that witchcraft exist, the witchcraft kill us, send bad luck in the families. We don't succeed in many things we do because witches are blocking all they positive effort.

The animal group has been struggling too to save many animals because the community kill them and believed that they work with witches. The most affected animals were the black cat, the baboon.

The African Christian believed that Cain was the first witch, he was jealous of the success of his brother Abel. He physically killed his own brother. Now the witches developed their way of operating sometime they don't have to physically touch you. They send bad luck from far some without being seen�

CHAPTER EIGHT :WELCOME BACK HERO

After many appeals of leaded by Sello and other people such us the choir director, Tembi. Kalao had to be realized from jail after serving 6 years. He was 24 years at the time of his realize.

Many community members, choir's members and other people include the press were at the door of the prison to see the realized of Kalao. More than 100 people were at the prison's entrance when he was realized. More than five hundreds people were present to witness the realized of Kalao and a small concert was planned.
Many people brought their gifts to welcome back Kalao at the big disappointment of the witch doctor family. Hundred cars were hooting all the way.
Kalao was now a big and very mature man. He had bears that he never had before he look like a middle thirty man. The media made a press conference just outside the central prison. The Kalao case was very popular and people were much interested to learn more. Some journalists and reporter asked him some questions: "Welcome back Kalao."
"It my pleasure to be free again."
"What was your experience in prison?"
"Bad" Kalao said it is a "living hell on earth" He stopped for a while watching the journalist pushing themselves with they micro phone and tape recorder just to hear what he was saying "It was a bad experience for me I pray and hope that he will never return back to jail."
"Do you still believe that you were unfairly arrested?"
"May be. I will answer this question with the help of my community."

Most of the people felt that Kalao was unfairly sentenced and he acted really like they used to act in the village. So he feels really that he was unfairly arrested. But for the modern court ignorance was never an excuse. If Kalao knew the consequences in town of those acts believe him. He could never kill the poor woman. He still sympathized with her family and had one word to say to her family.
"I know they will never forgive me for killing their bread winner." Kalao said "I am sorry for the difficulties that I put that family through. If only I knew those consequences I could never act that way. In village we have killed many witches without any consequences. I say to the family I am sorry, I know sorry is not good enough but I will try to help them if God bless me"
"You are so popular were you expected to be this popular?"
"Never" Kalao confessed "I never thought that I will find many peoples waiting for me outside the prison."

It was a motivator for Kalao to pay them back he was decided to try to assist the community in the community work. He didn't know how to thank them for leaving their daily occupations and to welcome him back into the community. He thanked them and people who help him to be realized sooner than expected: His uncle, Mpawo the lawyer, Simba, Vuyo and the choir director Temba.
"I am sorry too because they had many plans for me and I disappointed them." Kalao said "I don't know really how the world looks outside."
"What do you feel now as a free man?"
"Happy and confused."

He couldn't believe first when he come out, he felt dizzy because it has been a long time to see many people, the traffic�It remind him when he arrived in Leonville. I had the same feeling dizzy. But in general he was very happy now he can walk like a free bird. They used to eat and do many things in jail but they missed the freedom. He realized that freedom is more important than every thing. He thanked God. Just the ability to go to the shop at 100 meters and return even if you are hungry is very important. In jail you eat and do many things but you don't have that ability to walk. All your moves are limited. Prison is really a living hell.

"What is your way forward from now?"
"It will be very difficult to have a job now because of my criminal record now." Kalao stopped; he has lost hope of future in the working environment. "The publicity of the press has close down many opportunities in the society"

The only way is to enter the business World. His uncle has brought him in Leonville to work in the business sector and he will follow that route. Sello had already a small business he was vowed to help him. He was decided also to catch up with life; he acknowledged that it will be very difficult there are many challenges there. As an African grow up in a rural area at his age he should have be married and have many children. To catch up his friend he even considered to be a polygamous.
He was decided to name his first child after his grand father Tata with whom they come together taken by his uncle Sello. Tata or Papa passed away in his fourth year in jail. It was a very difficult moment for this young man. He was not given time in jail to have a special time to mourn his grand father. In their culture to remember the deceased one was one of the most important ceremonies in their life.
He missed Tata and once he returns to their village he will visit his tomb, grave. Cook and offer the best food on his grand father's grave. He thanked God that his grand father wishes and dream of dying and buried in their village have been realized.

"Are you ready to sing because many people are waiting for you to sing after this press conference?" the journalist asked "Did you have a chance to practice your singing talent in jail?"
"Yes."

He did have the chance to practice, they used to have a choir in jail and he was the leader of that choir.
"You have been in jail for quiet some time tell us what you really miss?"
"I miss many friends I made in jail: inmates and warders."

The inmates were part of his family too as well the community and everybody who come to welcome him and comfort him in jail. Jail was a learning process for him. He hoped that he has change for a better man and gain a lot from that environment.

The last born of the witch doctor Amina unfiltered in the group of people who come to welcome him back at the concert organized by Tembi. He had many tuff times since the death of his mother. He blamed Kalao for the all bad thing happened in his life after his mother's death. He was out of school because there was no one to support his study. All his brothers and sisters were struggling even to buy food since the death of their mother. When her mother died he was only 11 years old now he is 17 years old, he was called Lanbu.
Tembi the choir director invited many other groups to come and celebrate this event. His choir as grown to about 200 members and was much respected in Leonville.
The hall hired was for tree hundreds people but more than five hundreds people were to be in that hall. The press also was there, the small part of the concert had to be broadcast later on television's news because they didn't have material or equipment that time to broadcast live concert.
Many choirs and individuals sang. The show was initially to be for 3 hours but they went on for 5 hours. The show started at four hours in the afternoon and exceeded the initial ending time of seven hour in the afternoon as they headed for 9th hours in the afternoon.
Then the last one to sing was Kalao. He was called on the podium, he sang one song people went crazy and didn't want him to stop singing. Some producers who were also there decided to help Kalao to lunch is solo career because he become an instant star and people were curious of him. They said between them that it is an opportunity to catch because people are so interested in him.

The host of the show was a popular radio DJ on Leonville radio he announced that they had to leave the hall because they are already 2 hours overtime but the public refused to leave. Then the host decided to let Kalao sing 2 more songs to close the ceremony.
When Kalao started singing the first of the two songs people gathered on the podium giving Kalao money and hugging him. He was still having a strong and aggressive voice. He was able to bring out the emotion in the songs.
Kalao who made head line with the songs: Kalay Boeing and Buti hamba nako. Has come up with a surprise dance and song called voodoo voodoo, praise to the African spirit. He was even named after this dance as the king of voodoo voodoo.
Lanbu the last born of the witch doctor Amina a secret plan to kill Kalao, he come also in that group of people in the podium with a knife. In those dancing moves that Kalao was doing the young men, acted like if he was wanted to hug the singer but hugged him with a knife stubbing with a knife the eyes of Kalao.
All he wanted was to revenge the death of her mother. He thought that it was the best place to stub, the eye.
Scandal, the saw a blood splitting and the new realized from Jail screamed. This time the press caught in camera the man who did that action. They rushed with Kalao at the hospital.
The show ended in drama. Women screaming, people rushing here and there. The witchcraft drama wasn't over yet.
Immediately the television producer went with the film in the reportage car outside the wall, rewinding the recorded scene. They traumatized fans leaving the hall. The young man Lanbu realizing the danger hand himself over to the police who arrived shortly on the scene.
Temba was furious with the security personnel from allowing people to get next to his stars. The security personnel too had never experienced this kind of scene. They had no idea that people hugging the singer could have hurt him. This never happen or head in their town.
The celebration has turned to another disaster.

This was not the end of the drama but a beginning of a new drama. The furious Sello couldn't believe what happened at the celebration party he told his wife. The happiest day become the sadness day. He compared this day like the realized of Nelson Mandela in prison after serving 27 years in jail: "We thought that the drama was over but now is the beginning of a new drama."

Already Lanbu was in police custody and the charges and the complaint was already open. Kalao was a murder becomes a victim this time around.
This chapter wasn't over yet Sello was explaining with anger Jeanne that Kalao went to jail because of the love of the family. He did the right thing but the court couldn't accept that they were in African and they punish the witches. The community was angry and disappointed by the court decision. Kalao spend is valuable time in prison. They were all disturbed by his arrest, Kalao, his family, friends had to go to prison every week to comfort him and visit him. He lived with criminals in jail while he was an innocent man.

Sello's plans got a serious knock when the man he brought in town to help him was arrested. This time he was vowed to spend all his cents to revenge, Sello was a Christian but he have to preserve they African and family value. Kalao could have been married by now but now he has to spend again days in the hospital and now we have to visit him to the hospital.
The wanted the law to give a hash sentence to Lanbu: "If it was not because of the nonsense modern law we could have attacked that family and kills some of their members. The community his supporting us. The realize party of Kalao turn into a disaster."
"The matter is not over the revenge is there and we will use it to combat our enemies." angrily Sello commented.

Kalao spend few days in the hospital but lost the sight of his left eye. The very carrying uncle Sello went to meet the doctors to try to prevent the lost of the eye sight by his nephew Kalao: "�Doctor please does what you can to save my nephew's sight."

This is the biggest defeat Sello was experiencing. His nephew was in jail for eight years and never lost one part of his body. Now that they thought he has returned to the community, his hit by this tragedy that seems to change all his life and their life for ever. This is more than a prison sentence. Kalao will not be classifying as a normal man but he will be a handicapped.
The doctor was showing the picture of human's eye that was in his office. They were only tree chairs, a table and many documents in the doctor room:
"We did all we could have done but the knife went through the Iris and the Pupil of his left eyes." The doctor said.
"Tell us if we have to send him to Europe for the better health care system." Sello said "I can afford the bills there�"

There are some cases that can be treated here and in Europe. There are some case that can be treated to Europe and not here. There are some cases that cannot treat here or in Europe. I am afraid that your nephew is in the last category of patients. He cannot be treated to Europe or here in Africa.
The doctor this time opened a big book that was like a big dictionary. He looks at the eye part page and approached to the desperate Sello. He started explaining better:

�The bottom drawing show the socket or orbit of the eyes. Each eye has six muscles that move the eyeball. You can see one of these muscles just above the eyes, traveling through a tiny pulley called the trochlea. This pulley allows the muscle to move the eye diagonally. Another muscle in the orbit opens the upper eyelid when it contracts. A different muscle closes the eyelid. It takes only one-tenth of a second to blink your eyes. While you are awake, you blink about ten thousand times. Each blink keeps your eyes moist and wipes away dust. The knife has penetrated the pupil and the iris. It is impossible to restore the sight. Even in Europe they cannot resurrect a dead tissue. I am afraid that he has to live with one eye. We prevented the other eyes for being affected because they have the same nerves. The lost of one eyes sight could gradually affect the other eye�
The most advanced medicine has failed to heal the Kalao. This is a true revenge and Kalao have to live with one eyes:

"Jesus" Sello regretted "why my nephew have to suffer for all his life?"

This is just too much for the young man. He is not even thirty years old but he has gone through many circumstances, experiences like a fifty years man?
"Your nephew is fine." the doctor said.

The one eye will really help him like other human. The doctor refused to consider him like a handicapped but a normal man.
"God have created us with two eyes." Sello said.

His nephew won't have the two eyes that God have given him. He was born with two eyes now he will have to use for the entire life one eyes. All of this just because of the witchcraft story. Now they were living in revenge after revenge.
The doctor comforted the very concern man: "He will keep wearing dark glasses to protect the affected eyes. If he is ashamed being view as a handicapped and to avoid the curious of many people I definitely advise him to wear the dark glasses."
"My nephew is an artist" Sello regretted "and the people will look at him and will keep wondering what happen to the other eye."
"The dark glasses will suit him. It will be like his new trade mark wearing glasses�"
"Thank you doctor for helping my nephew."

He wanted Kalao to have the best medical attention. The way the doctor explained to him, he understood the function of the sight system. He appreciates the doctor's effort to prevent the other eye of being gradually affected too. They have to live with a new challenge. This was just another way to see the witchcraft work. Sello believed that the medicine fail to heal Kalao because the eyes was eaten in the dark world by the dark cannibal, witches.
They believed that sometime the witches may eat the entire human's been then he dies in the physical world or may hit one part of human so he become handicap.
Many witches have confessed to have done so. Sometime the witches sacrifice they own body part.

Kalao was realized from the hospital wearing dark glasses in public. He had to return to the court again for another trial. This time he was the other side not the accused but the offend party with the same family: the witch's family responsible for his eight years imprisonment. All those series of controversial and unusual event in the city brought again a large attention to the star to be. The press was reporting all his moves. New readers buying a lot news paper with Kalao story and they were anxious to know the second round of the trial. Unusual way to be famous.
Some people says it doesn�t matter how you become famous, �it doesn�t matter if you arrived to fame by feet or bicycle or by car or by ship or by airplane� There was no specific formula to get fame.
Before the second round of the matter that seem unfinished, Kalao who had return home after spending eight years in jail and two weeks in the hospital, twelve neighbors come to see him and comfort him: "The war is not over. This is the beginning of a new war. They thought that the matter was finished but still on."
He found another carrying neighbour new neighbour Bulawayo. Lindu Bukoba one was still at large. May be he relocated to another town. May be he left the country. May he is not alive no more:
"You did the right things in killing that witch "Kalao's supporter said "even if the modern law called you criminal but we the community support you and will always support you."

They all fight against the witch devil witchcraft that kill their family members and brought unsuccessfully in their lives. They have been trying everything to succeed but the witches are blocking all the project. They cannot find good jobs, they cannot succeed in the business, they cannot have money�At the other hand they get strange diseases; they loose their families members�If it was not of the modern law we could have killed all the witches family. They blamed all the bad thing happening in their lives to be caused by witchcraft. They call the witchcraft the negative power in their lives.
Kalao had to re start the same chapter of going to court after all the apologies he made to the witch family: "I really forgave the witch family long before my realize from the prison. I really mention how I was planning to help them if I am successful but they have jeopardized all my good plans for them."
"You know the children of the lions are always lions." Kalao's supporter said.

Lion cannot give birth to ships. The children of the witch are also witch. They are trying to continue the mission that their mother didn't complete. They are trying to bring misery in the community and your family. They are trying to make you suffer and see the community unhappy. They don't see how a seventeen boy can hold a knife to kill you? They have fail to kill you but got your eyes.
Seventeen was just a bad year in this witchcraft topic. Kalao killed Amina when he was seventeen and Lanbu was trying to revenge when he was seventeen years old.
Kalao was explaining: "When he stabbed me, I was not really aware. I didn't feel the pain first�it only later that I felt the pain"

The all event was going so fast that he couldn�t realize what has just happens only the screaming fans crying and terrified. He started realizing in the hospital's bed the pain in his eye. The doctors were very concern about him. They didn't want to realize him from the hospital until they completed their job. Kalao was determined to return home the same night because he missed his all family and all the community who supported him.
Kalao was not an ordinary man anymore everybody wanted to know how the man his after jail's life. The press keeps following him everywhere and made him a celebrity: "You are a star before even you even realize of your songs, the all city want to know more about you. The front page of the news papers and the journal are your news. The all city want you and peace of you�"
"I am also blessed that in prison" Kalao said "I didn't have any hobby except singing."

While many inmates where playing soccer in prison, he was busy rehearsing without thinking that he will make music his career. He was amazed that his very supportive choir director Temba had organized a concert for him realized. He could realized how the fans were cheering and screaming. He started recalling all the event on the hospital bed and he thanked God for sending him in a environment were he could concentrate in the singing. He felt that he improved a lot more in jail.

The neighbours were encouraging him, they were respecting him as a good singer. "You have improved a lot. Your voice is sharp and you can compete with any artist from any part of the world. You are too good now to sing in the choirs or wedding parties�"

Kalao wanted to finish those court judgments before concentrating on his singing career once again.

The court day arrived; Kalao, Temba and Sello were all wearing blue shirts and black trousers. Many observers arrived to witness the verdict of a new controversial case. The young Lanbu who stabbed Kalao in his eyes was brought in the court by the police personals. His family hired a lawyer to defend the young man. He looks much secured and very confident of his revenge act. His family had some few supporters who were arguing with the large number of supporters who come to support Kalao before the court proceeding.
They were obviously two camps in the crowd. The witchcraft supporter camp composed mainly of Amina's family's, her formers clients and people from her tribe Mayaula..
The biggest camp was Kalao's choir members, his tribe Kambelembele, Jeanne's tribe Potolama. It was often the case in town; all the fights were extended to tribe's fight. Claiming sometime many lives and revenges�
That was the negative side of the African's towns. Most of the time a fight that may have started by the children playing could turn to a violence tribal fight.
"This is not the end of the war it just the beginning of a new war." Swore a Kalao hard die supporter.
"You always come in numbers to intimidate the judges but this time you won't succeed." Responded an Amina's supporter.
"You must be ashamed for supporting a witch family."
"Witchcraft his not recognized by the modern law and Lanbu's mother was not a witch, she was a mental unstable woman."
"Shame on you men" Kalao supporter said "the court do recognize the witchcraft it is why the words witch exists in the dictionary of any language�Magic are also part of that practices�"
"Those are just illusions�Your hero will be left with one eye only and we will see how he will be walking on streets of Leonville with stabbed eyes."
"Kalao, is a star and he is growing in popularity. Look all the journalist comes here to support the future star."
"They come to cover the all invent. Lanbu's mother has made this popularity. Her soul is above us�"
"We will never sit to the witchcraft family who was caught naked performing strange rituals at Sello's house in the midnight while everybody was sleeping."
"She was doing here job, she healed many people with her job�She was well respected woman in her community."
"Yes, she was respected in the community of witches. You are all witches like Lanbu's mother Amina."
"She was a witchdoctor not a witch. She heals many of us with her practices. She needs to be respected like all the modern doctors who give pain killers in the clinics and hospital."
"Yes, she was a doctor of death not a doctor to save human's life. She is not in the same category to our traditional doctors�She was a doctor of death. A doctor his not there to kills patients but to save patients�"

Some members of those two parties were even about to fight. Some of them have brought their fighting weapon just in case if there is a fight erupting so they may use it.

Then the judge opens the next round of the controversial case to be heard by many people and the reporters. All the arguing, the scene in and outside were well described by the reporters who come in large numbers. Some of the reporters were infiltrated in the supporters and observers. A new judge was appointed to rule on this matter: "�Landu has stabbed Kalao on his left eyes during a show organized by Temba to celebrate the realized from prison of Kalao after serving eight years in the correctional facilities�"

The state case was based on the cassette video recorded during Kalao welcome party celebration. Like Amina's case was supported by the picture taken by the police and the Amina's medical records.
Lanbu lawyer who was in an immense pressure from the public for accepting to defend Lanbu said: "That is correct."
"We have the evidence of the incident film by the broadcasting crew."
"That is correct."
"Landu you have committed this crime to revenge the death of your mother at the hand of Kalao's knife."
"That is correct."
"Kalao was punished already for the crime he committed?"
Then the lawyer started to defend Lanbu:

The sentence was not good enough for the murder he has committed. The court has reduced his crime from twenty years to six years. He supposed to be in prison not in the community. It is a pity that the legal system misjudged the degree of his crime.
The prosecutor intervenes:

It doesn't matter, the man served his sentenced. Some murder does not even serve their sentences but Kalao served at least his sentence. Amina the mother of Landu who was accused for witchcraft was found naked at Sello's house at 12 hours in the midnight while everybody was sleeping. May be Kalao killed her on self defense beside the witchcraft theory she could be accused for wanting to rob her uncle properties because she was find at unusual time at the unusual place. She was at the window of a sleeping man, at someone else house�
The crowd supported the prosecutor this time in applauding. After the judge asked for silence, Lanbu lawyer continued: "We all know your honour that Amina was hired by Sello's neighbour to perform some kind of ceremonies naked at Sello's window at the midnight. She was also mentally unstable."
The prosecutor comes up with his argument:

We don't want to go back to what happen. What Lanbu has done is another case. The previous verdict his not our main concern we are just trying to talk about what apparently pushed Lanbu to stab Kalao. The motives behind his action. He said that it was revenge against the main who killed his mom. At the same time the revenge was already done, Kalao served six years of his valuable time in prison. The revenge belong to the government and the government has done his job in sentencing Kalao to twenty years imprisonment then after a series of appeal they court sentenced Kalao to six years of imprisonment plus the parole he his serving. The man completed that punishment; they were no need again for any kind of revenge again. I was not here at the time of sentencing Kalao, I was at university that time. That case drawn attention of all the citizens. The communities were divided and felt that the unfairly sentenced Kalao who was from a rural area were they kills witches and act according what he knew was best. The court of law wanted to teach him and teach the all communities that taking the law in your own hands was unlawful. It what the law simply did to show the community that mobbing was not a good thing to do in those situations. We even did an assignment on this subject at university�They were no need to revenge but to accept the court verdict. Amina's family had to thank the court for sentencing the well supported Kalao in that cases. I remember reading in the new papers that the community members even intimidated the judges before Kalao's appeals. But the judge was stick and stayed firm to the law and sentenced Kalao.
Landu lawyer gave the reason behind Lanbu's revenge:

My client is a minor, juvenile and revenged due to all the suffering he suffered after the death of his mother. He was out of school and his dream of becoming a doctor was shut down. The family was dispersing, the young man was very angry for Kalao killing the bread winner of the family. The family have spend all the last few money they had: funeral proceeding, hearse location, buying coffin, wreaths, grave, undertaker, marquee, chairs rental, catering service, grave equipment, funeral pamphlets, flowers, notices, tombstones,�All the expenses were made by Amina's family. After the death of the bread winner the family struggle the young man who wanted to be a doctor was chased from school for not paying school's fees. The family starved to buy food. The young man suffered all his life because of his mother's death. They were not another way to repay that pain but to revenge his mother's sudden death. He told me how painful he felt to see his sister turning to a prostitute just to get some cents to buy food. He told me how painful her sister was feeling sleeping with drunker she never loved. She had to expose here body in the night clubs, she end up taking beer she never likes to drink; she was forced by poverty to sleep with some of the men very old like her father. All those suffering create that invisible scar in him. He kept blaming all the suffering to Kalao's murder.
The crowd was silent this time hearing this sad statement but the prosecutor didn't have any sympathy:

Kalao was punished for that matter, the judges look at all those possibility, we are aware of what happened to the poor family. Even Kalao when he was interviewed after his realized he was willing to support Lanbu's family, he felt guilty for taking away the bread winner's life. Kalao felt somehow, somewhere guilty for killing Amina, even if she was claimed to be a witch who wanted to witchcraft his family. The man killed and was punished for his action; they were no need to revenge. Kalao was ignorant of his action after killing a so called witch; he didn't know that it was a crime in the modern court that operates in town. He end up being punished for his murder, he was sent to the correctional services to learn and show to all the ignorant people in town that killing a witch it was a murder and people do not have to take the law by their own hands. The same thing will be applied to Lanbu, he must know that revenge only belong to the law. It is only the law who can revenge, he will be taught like Kalao that you don't take justice in your own hands and he will be an example to show to many people who takes revenge in their own hand and show to those who are willing to take the law in the own hand to stop those practices. He attempted to kill Kalao but fortunately for Kalao he was stabbed in his eyes. Unfortunately for Kalao, he lost his sight no money will restore back his eyes. There is no shop were you can buy an eyes. Lanbu you are a minor but your action was premeditated, you handed yourself over to the police personal after the television crew caught you stabbing Kalao.
The lawyer intervenes to avoid a hush sentence to his juvenile client:
I wanted to ask for a review the events that lead to my client to commit that crime before you sentence him. I wanted your honour to ask for the postponement of the case to gives us time to come with other evidence?
Which evidence? You intending to blame your client action of being a legitimate self defense?
The lawyer open the file he was hiding under his chair then said: "My client has inherited a mental disease from her mother."
The crowd that was quiet for sometime get upset in hearing that statement:
"Liar." some chanting "This is purely lies." Some screaming "It is impossible."

The judge called for calm: "this is a court of law not a market place"
Lanbu being mentally unstable too was unacceptable. People were tired of the mentally instability. Another drama that shocked the public was when a soldier was realized and not charged after killing his family: 2 children and his wife and family in law parents. He was found having mentally disturbance.
The judge called one more time for calm: "Listen, listen up, I know that your are angry to hear that statement. We haven't finalized the verdict. We are far from finishing�Let me talk to Lanbu's lawyer. He is doing his job and we respect his job too." Let him finished his statement.
The lawyer took a deep breath and said: "I know that you won't agree to my statement that his coincidental only. Amina was mentally sick and Landu inherited the disease from her mother. He had suffered from Malaria the deadly disease that affects his mental capability to think straight like all of us. I want more time to get the medical final report and show you before your final verdict. Please allow me to finalize the medical report."
"How long do you think the medical report may be ready?" the judge said.
-"Give me two weeks."
The judge accepted the postponement of this case:

We have many cases to judges and we want to finish all the cases in time. Everyday we get new cases. We will give you the two weeks to finalize the medical reports, make sure that you give us all the medical report and send Lanbu for the mental evaluation to know if he can stand trail.
Kalao supporters didn't want to hear the postponement of the case to give Landu's lawyer to come with new evidence. They screamed on their way out:
They believed that the lawyer want to buy time to come with false proofs. Some wondered how the judge could accept to postpone the trial to give Landu's lawyer to buy false reports? And for many they believed that the judge must be corrupt too. He started well then at the end he jeopardized all the praised they gave him.

At the other hand Sello, Kalao and Temba were surprised with Lanbu's lawyer request. They were expecting Lanbu to be sent to jail too.
Lanbu have a very good lawyer. He saw how he was loosing the case and played his last card of mentality instability.
It sad that the judge and prosecutor accepted his request to postpone the case.

This is modern court. They want to make sure that all the evidences are there before the final verdict. It different to the traditional court where there is no prison or postponement.
If we had this kind of lawyer before Kalao could have spend few years in jail.

They were very impress with his timing. He let the judge talk, he tried to convince the judge that Lanbu acted by revenge, then when he realized that the judge was not buying his stories he played another card. They were living in central Africa where malaria is the most popular disease. They all have suffered form malaria and they didn't know that malaria may affect our minds. He also mentioned that Lanbu may inherit a mental disease form his mother.
"We have to fight this matter until Landu get a proper sentenced he deserve." Temba said "Kalao spent many years in prison and Lanbu must get the most appropriate sentence to his attempt of murder."

After two weeks their return to the court for the final verdict but many Kalao supporters were very disappointed by the judge to allow Lanbu's lawyer to bring all the medical report, they suspected of a kind of corruption in the case and didn't show up in large number. The other reason his that the supporter got tired of the daily participating in the court house. The press reporters were in good number to report the most awaited case in town. Many Kalao's supporters didn't come but 90% of the public opinion was in favour of Kalao.
Temba, Sello and Kalao were present for what could be the final day in the courtroom. Kalao wanted the all things to finish so he may concentrate in his music career. The judge arrived with a bunch of file in his hands. The day had to be one of the busiest one. The young judge who was in his early thirties took the speech, while Lanbu and his lawyer took the stand: "I am happy that you are all here, I don't see many Kalao supporters today, I hope that the proceeding won't be disturbed. I read in the news paper how many citizens are disappointed but this is a modern court where we give chances to all parties to present their evidence."
Lanbu's disrupt the judge introduction: "I am very disappointed that your are judging according the city's opinion. Everybody in the city support Kalao because he has killed what you call a witch. I am scared that your decision may be based by the public opinion rather than reality on the ground. Everybody hate witches it why Kalao have a large number of supporters. You want to please the public opinion and if I have to loose this case I will take sue you."
The judge disagreed with Lanbu's lawyer:

Come down. I know that all the lawyer wants to win their cases. Their want to have the best C.V as possible to attract more clients. You want to have a respectable C.V and I respect your job of defending the client at any cost. May job is to implement the law in the society. I understand how nervous you are feeling that you may loose your case today. I am a human living in a society and I must be informed of what is happening in the city and around the world. I will accept to be sued by anyone as a human. This will not intimidate my personality and to do my job. I wanted to be clear, I have many files and I want to finish this job in time and look at other cases. I will go straight to the point, where are the medical reports?
They gave the judges a bunch of medical reports:
The judges look at the documents composed of the previous medical reports most of them stating that Landu have suffered from malaria plus plus. He consulted the others judges in the committee then the prosecutor stated:

�Those are common diseases in the tropical land. We appreciate the fact that all the documents are showing that your clients have suffered from the common disease in this part of the land, if Kalao lived in a urban area for many years where the disease are recorded he could have brought those kind of documents. He was unlucky to have spent many years in a rural area where the traditional doctor does not record the disease. Those documents will not change the court verdicts. There are all dismissed, Landu must spend many years in jail to learn and show to many who still take the law in their own hands that those practices are not tolerated by the court. The reports stating that your clients could have inherited the disease from his mother are only founded too. The man must be an example to the community and many ignorant.
This statement pleased Kalao party and they supported the prosecutor. While Lanbu's lawyer was upset: "Your, honour, we have all suffered from this tropical diseases but the disease do not affected our mind. But my client was affected by the common disease."
The prosecutor said: "It will affect your mind when you stand in court for a crime."
The lawyer gave his argument: "Not all the criminals have suffered or being mentally affected."
The prosecutor replied again: "This is a common excuse that many criminals used to avoid the punishment."
"I may call the doctor to testify."
The judge then said: "We have heard the same songs over the years and we may accept this time only in an appeal�"
Then the judge gave the final verdict:

Lanbu we accept the fact that you tried to revenge the death of your mother who was the bread winner of the family. We are compassionate with you that the sudden deaths of your mother have bought the family instability. We feel bad that your dream of being a doctor had a life time knock, we may tell you that being a doctor is not the only career existing in the world. Many orphans have challenged the misery to be very successful. I know many successful business men who didn't go to schools but today have universities employees. There is many alternative way to make a living. We are considering that all the disease you suffered and recorded into the hospital files. The man who you wanted to kill had also many diseases but not recorded because he grown up in the rural area. We don't consider that you have inherited some kind of mental instability from your mother. You are very young and you have a long life ahead of you. In our tradition we say that you can fix or direct only a small or young tree once it grows it impossible to fix it. You have complained from not having finished your studies. The prison has a program teaching the inmate many jobs to make a living once realized. It why we call the prison correctional facilities where they may teach you what you ignored. You will be strong mentally and it will be difficult at the beginning but with time you will get use to that life. We consider the fact that you are young and the prison have a juvenile facility much more accessible to young men. The reason of sentencing you is to teach you and show to all the community members that taking the law in your own hand is prohibited, we understand the effort of your lawyer but unluckily all the evidences where purely common excuses in the tropical reason and we may not keep encouraging those unrealistic evidence. We even doubt the authenticity of those bunches of these documents. There are just to good and too big to be true. The man that you wanted to kill was already punished by the government. The main lesson for you and the people of the city and especially those ignorant is that don't take the law in your own hand. We have decided to sentence you at sixty months imprisonment or five years jail term with chance of appealing of attempting to murder Kalao. The sentence is appropriate to the juvenile like you and gives you the opportunity to rebuild your life. Kalao, I beg you and beg all your supporters and the family members to stop the revenges. Revenges do not bring solutions; the only place to revenge is in the courtroom. We don't believe in forgiveness but direct or indirect compensation that is jail or servitude. If pardon was existed, they could never be prisons in the world. I know that you have lost your left eye sight but this not the end of the world. We have tried to compensate your suffering by imprisoning the perpetrator. You have killed a human and we jailed you to many years imprisonment. I beg you please the witches� supporters or the mentally unstable supporters and the Kalao supports to stop fighting and revenge. This house was build to solve all your matters. We are paid to solve your differences, in all the community there are many differences that lead to problems. We are punishing you to show to all the people that it unlawful to take justice in your own hands. The traditional courts are not recognized by the international law that we are practicing.

A slight fight broke out between Kalao's supporter and Amina's supporter. The police has to come and end the fight hoping that it doesn't extend to the feared tribal fight that kills many peoples.

They started refusing too to allow the supporter crowd to talk in the court's room.

CHAPTER NINE : NIGHT WALKER

Kalao with those historical controversies become so popular. The man from a village who was fetched by his uncle Sello to initially help him in his business project has to face a new life. After being arrested for killing a naked witch doctor at midnight. After many appeal he was realized before completing the heavy sentence.
Sello a member of the traditional choir adding his traditional flavour in the group based in town become more popular.

The local press was following him to know what he will do after being realized from jail. His case made him very popular; the modern court sentenced a man who was an hero in the community for killing a witch. But the modern court based in African town didn't believe in witchcraft and claimed that the witch was a mentally sick.
What a drama for millions of Africans who believed in witchcraft?
The African still sympathized with their hero. When he was realized, Lanbu the alleged witchdoctor son stubbed him in his eyes for revenge in the party organized by the community to welcome him back. Lanbu blamed Kalao for killing her mother who was the family bread winner. The death of Landu mother brought many miseries in their family: he dropped out of school prematurely and her sister becomes a prostitute. Just seeing her sister sleeping with many men she never loved just to get money bread was unacceptable.
Kalao excuse was that he didn't know the modern court law as he grew up in rural area where the traditional court allowed them to kill all the witchcraft suspect. After just two month in the modern city he did what he knew.
But Lanbu the witchdoctor son got a light sentence.
All those event made him more popular as even many music producers jump on this opportunity to sign a popular man in an unusual manner.
The producer so the potential in this choir singer who was popular already on his own to use his popularity to make more behind the controversial and loved man in the community Kalao.

Kalao as many people who feel the pressure wanted to deliver when signed. By fear of disappointing he turned to the divine spirit for help.

Kalao with those historical controversies become so popular. The media kept following now his life and all his moves. The producers were behind him to get his signature. He was not rushing but waited always his uncle and his choir director to help me with advises.
They decided not to hold him back because some of the offers were extremely good.
A German producer, Phillips get Kalao signature. He gives to Kalao, his uncle, the choir director Tembi each a car and some money and Kalao had to go solo now. Kalao was well known as the king of voodoo voodoo, an African dance and song that praise the African spirit.
He had developed the village dance, anthem with different sound he has found in town. He has a significance improvement in prison where he had plenty of time to work on the moves and lyrics.
The producer wasn't stupid to sign Kalao even though he never realized any song but all the controversy in life. The way the press has lifted him up, the support of community alone were already a much needed criteria for a super star. He took the opportunity to make more money with the big support bases Kalao has.
He saw plenty of potential in this controversial man, popular and artist. He saw a room to make Kalao reach the big audience.
Sometime today it is not talent that open doors but connections behind at the right time and place. Some people believe today that talent constitute only 10% of break but connection constitute 90% of break.

The night he signed the contract Sello's called Kalao in the living room to give the secret of life, they were just two of them:

�Kalao I am very happy to see you again. It was our daily nightmare when you were in jail. I was the one to be blamed for what happened to you because I am the one who took you from the village to town. You know in life, we love a lot the children from the same mother compare to the children of same father but different mothers. You know your mother is my sister and true sister we are from the same mother and same father. I love my wife, my sister and my children more than anything in this World. It was for me an obligation to open opportunities for you. I am very sad for what happen to your eye. You did exactly was a good in our traditional point of view but the modern law do not act like we do. It is why you got many fans. Witchcraft his in African community but the law do not believe in witchcraft. They always say that in life if you want to jump you have to go a step back. You went back by spending six years and loosing your most important part of your body, your eyes. That is the sacrifice you have made. Don't even regret because we have to make sacrifices at certain point in life. Now you are very popular before even before the realized of your debut album. You have to take this opportunity .You have to get a break and also maintain that break. Many people do get a break but do not maintain. I know your debut album will be successful because everybody are curious of you but I am still anxious waiting for your coming debut album. Break through in life is a combination of what you know and who you know, being at the right place and right time. When I talk about what I mean talent. You have been singing in the tradition choir in our village. That have created a talent in you, you have to add to that what (talent) the who you know. By whom you know I am talking about connection. In our village you were not the best singer they were many who were much more praised than you but they didn't have the whom to connect them. No one heard them because there are far from opportunities. The opportunity has knocked at your door now. You are at the right place and right time. Right, you are now more mature you know the value of life and the importance of money. I still want to build our village. We cannot wait for the government to help us because they have their priority and rural areas are not their priority. They are interested in other resource that generates money like mine. I told you many time the progression of the business I opened. If you were there the business could be much bigger. My wife is struggling as a woman to make that business a much more big business. I love my wife because we have now tree children the last one was born when you were in jail I told you in one of my visit. You are as special to me as son of my sister. You and my children are all special to me. My wife and I, if we divorce. I am sure it will never happen but if we divorce she will go to her parent but I cannot divorce my family.

You are part of blood, we have the same blood. I have something to tell you your mother had already find a wife for you. The woman is from our village and you probably know her. I didn't want to tell you when you were in jail. She has married a beautiful woman with whom you were singing with in the choir back to our village. She is now twenty tree years old, your wife have been waiting for you for 2 years now I will send money to bring her here. You know the career that you chose is so challenging. You will meet thousands and thousand of women and very beautiful. I support your mother idea because you have now to be stable. Look how the press is following you. You lost your eye now I am scared that next time we loose you! In our culture we not seeing that human are eternal but we don't accept a young man to die because we believe everybody has to contribute and young have a lot to contribute. For us life and death is a celebration. When a child is born we celebrate and when he dies old like your grand father who is my father we celebrated because he has achieved everything on earth. It is why we call death of an old man as joining our ancestors.
All his uncle speech was interesting Kalao, except one think he didn't like:

Uncle I am very touched, impressed of your affection to me. There is one thing that I don't agree to get married to the woman that my mother who is your sister has chosen for me. I respect and appreciate her concern but I cannot marry a woman who can not read and write. We are in a civilized world now.
His uncle shook his head and said. "But look you may teach her or hire someone who can teach her how to write or hire some one to teach her how to write and read!"

Some stars well known in the World do not go to school but the have people who are teaching them many things. It was not a sin to be illiterate, "Don't tell to my mother now that I refused that wife."

He was decided to find a wife may be in our church or another place if I find a wife I will show you and you will have a look. If I don't find a perfect woman I will the one that mom have find for me.
Sello had his nephew and didn't want to force him to take in marriage the woman chosen by Kalao mother because himself made his own choice when he married Jeanne: "It is not a very bad idea. But let me tell you if you look for a perfect woman you will never find one."

There is no perfect woman and man. Even we who are married for many years their women are note perfect but they learn and support to live with them .Every man has to support all the woman's caprices. Some women still urinate on their bed but their husband still living with them and keep those secret. Sello clarified. "I don't say that my wife is urinating on bed but many do. In fact we all have good side and bad side, we have our high and low in life and in everything we do."

Even towns and villages include civilizations have their advantage and disadvantage. Sello warned Kalao to be careful in his choice. Sello supported his idea. Himself made his own choice, no one did chose his first wife Bonsile and his current wife Jeanne for him. He got a woman who is not from his tribe but was happy, he wants Kalao to be happy too.

Under the advice of Simba, Kalao went for a clean up. They brought a traditional healer with his substance he poured in the water in a basin a Kalao bathed in that water.
It was a way many people used to try to clean up from the curse. They believed that many unfortunate accidents were to happen to Kalao after killing someone.

The following Sunday Kalao went to church with a big decision to find a woman. He prayed to God to show him by some signs a woman of his life.
When they were in church Kalao prayed to God. "God help me to find my wife�I want when I turn around and look at the back the woman who will be smiling to me that means she is the one that I will approach after the church service�"
He looks at the back he saw a very old woman smiling to him then he prayed again. "No God, not that one she is too old she is like my grand mother she must me seventy years old or twenty something�"
Then at the offering time when people were going to put their offering he prayed again. "God I have to approach a woman after the service. The one who will smile to me first when coming back from the offering basket is the one I have to approach�"
Then the same old woman who was coming from the offering comes back smiling at Kalao and he prayed again: "No God�I think there is miscommunication�Not, never that old woman. If I was old I could have take her but not her�Forgive me God not her."
Then come a time of the testimony. A man wearing a white trouser and red T shirt who was in his early thirty went to testify. "Alleluia". His name was Zamanga.
The church followers responded: "Amen."
"Brother and Sister Alleluia."
"Amen."
"I have a good and interesting testimony�"

He was struggling at home it was in the middle of the month. He didn't have some money, in the middle of the month most of people do not have money. They have to wait for the end of the month to get money and even when they paid them the money get finish in 3 days only. He didn't have food but he was blessed by God when he was in the bus someone left 200 francs it even double of my monthly salary He quickly pick up the money before someone else "�Brother and sister Alleluia."
"Amen."
"Alleluia."
"Amen."
Zamanga was testifying and praising God: "God made something really I was not expecting that is really a blessing from God. No one else saw me picking the money."
Then the pastor who was wearing a white and green church uniform intervened: "No no no, wait a minute�Where is that money?"
Zamanga answered with proud: "I spend already�I was scared to pay the tenth of the money because if it is a sin God instead of blessing me will punish me."
The talkative pastor shook is head and said: "You have stolen the money."
Zamanga testified his action: "I didn't steal."

No one saw him and the owner was gone. What he supposed when the owner of money get off of the bus and he didn't even know him. He couldn't wait longer before someone else grabs the opportunity. 200 Franc is double his monthly salary no one could have resisted. He prayed and God blessed him. "But the man who left the money I don't know if it was in a wallet went regretting for his money, may be it was all his income."
The followers didn't know whether Zamanga was wrong or right. It was a difficult decision to make but Zamanga was honest: "What did I suppose to do? The man left the bus and I didn't even see him. I am sure he was upset but his suffering was my blessing."

The pastor insisted: "You could have leaved the money alone."
"No pastor in our culture we are saying to pick up is not stealing; I didn't rob no one pastor."
"We are not here to exchange words but if only you did a wrong thing God only will judge you�"

Then come another man Lumbala who was in his late twenties. He was a security guard at hotel Kilimanjaro. The only four starts and 200 room�s hotel in Leonville, Many rich people and trourist use it as their home in Leonville.
A tourist while rushing in his room left in the reception's room a bag. In that bad were clothes and about 50 000 USA $ about 1 millions Congolese Franc. As a honest Christian he refused to vanish or run away with that bag. He checks at the hotel room tenants and went to return the bag. The owner of the bag instead gave him 10$ or about 200 Congolese Franc. It was a lot of money but compare to what the bag's owner gave him it was little.
He testified: "Brother and sister. I lost an opportunity to become a rich."
It was difficult to find him in Leonville or any other part of the continent.
When he security supervisors had the news, they all insulted him instead of congratulating him. Include his friend: "You are a stupid. You have just missed the chance of becoming an instant millionaire."
The pastor was happy to hear the commitment of this Christian: "let praise God joy did the right thing."
Lumbala, the security man was complaining: "I could have been a rich man."
"God will bless you with interest more than ten times."
Lumbala was asking the pastor while the followers were astonished: "But when?"
"Don't worry. The time and the ways are in the hand of God himself."
"When pastor?"
"God knows."
"What will happen if I die tomorrow?"
"You won't die now."

When Kalao returned from the church he decided to fast for few days. He noticed that when he is not fasting his uncle's wife always cook bad foods and usual foods. He didn't tell no one that he was in food fast, he enter in his room with the decision to fast. He stayed in his room for couple of hours. Then decide to go to toilet, when he was in the passage he smell a very good food smell from kitchen one of his favorite food that he didn't eat in many years: springbok. He recalls that he didn't eat that meat for almost seven years include the six years he spends in jail. "If I keep my decision to continue with my fast I will miss this food. They will not keep for me, what can I do now?�"

The smell is too good. No he refused to resist to the meal's smell. But he has made a secret commitment to God that he was in fast? He was scared that if he eats God may punish him for not respecting his commitment. If he continues to fast he will miss the delicious food. Then what can I do?
Then he decides to pray to God, "Please God I postpone today fasting and fast after two days time."

Kalao postponed the fast to have a chance to eat the springbok meat. Then the next day he didn't suppose to fast. Sello's wife cooked the usual food: a lot of vegetables and cow�s meat. When he was invited at the table to eat, He was thinking, "Now that I am not in fast this woman cook bad and usual food�"

He never tells Jeanne Sakina his program of fast because really fasting is a secret between God and the individual who made that commitment to God. He could have fast today instead of coming to the table. What must he do, he never told Jeanne pray program? If he refuses to eat now she will be angry for not telling her in time to cook a small quantity of food instead of throwing and wasting food. It was forbidden in they culture to throw food or give animals food while a lot of human's are starving for food.

This coincidence happen tree times and the fourth time Kalao get angry and cross as he decided to tell Sello's wife. Kalao and Jeanne was just a good item. They chat a lot in the rest of the day. Jeanne was going to the market and checks the shop that his husband has open for about two hours a day. Sello put on hold Kalao to work on his shop because he had a talent in singing. And wanted him to try his luck in his music industry and make their family, clans and tribe proud.
They had no popular singer from their tribe Kambelembele. Sello wanted Kalao to represent they tribe and put they village on the map too.
Sello postpone his resignation from the mine for two years. He wanted to raise enough money. The business was slow at the star. He lost money for the tree first months; it was only after 6 months that he started making profits. He thought that from the start he could have get profit but his plans were different with the business reality.

Jeanne Sakina missed those talking and jokes with Kalao when he was in prison, now they were back together: Kalao was back in her life, "What wrong with you?"
"I don�t understand what you are saying?" Jeanne responded.
"There is something wrong with you."
"What?"
"You are used by the devil to disturb my fast program"

For Kalao, Jeanne Sakina had a satanic spirit. She always disturbs his fast program. Every time he plans to fast Jeanne cook nice food but every time he was not in fasting mood she cook the usual and bad food. "You never tell me about your fasting programs."
"I don't have to tell no one because fast is a secret between God and the individual who is intending the fast."
"It is just a coincidence; I am a woman and have a plan with my kitchen".

She doesn't have a specific program on food. She cooks what she gets from the market. She advised him that if his is fasting, it doesn't mean that they have to change the kitchen menu or cook bad food and wait for Kalao when he finishes his fast to cook his favorite food. It is just a coincidence. If Kalao is serious about fast he doesn't have to care about food. She insisted: "Continue with your program whether I cook you favorite meal or not your favorite meal�"
Then Jeanne start laughing as Kalao explained: "It is hard�For example the day you cooked the springbok. I was determined to fast and I even started my fasting." Just because Kala haven't eaten that meat for 7 years include the 6 years he spend in jail he couldn't resist. "I decided to postpone my program"
She strangely looks at Kalao and said: "You are the funniest person I ever meet. You postpone fasting?"

That is not good, he has to be strong regardless the kind of food she cooks. Kalao have to stay in his room and continue with his prayers and read his Bible. "I did that but I went to urinate to the toilet when I smell the springbok meat. You know how rare is that food mixed with onions, tomatoes and other spices�Man, I had to do something to eat that food�"
She didn't believe to what Kalao saying thinking that he invented a joke was: "Kalao stop you�re talking how you can break your commitment to God because of a springbok meat?"
In they church they were advised to do a lot fast to open the opportunities door in they life and break the plans of the devils and witchcraft. Sello him didn't have much time for fast because he needed to eat for his physical job that needed a lot energy. Despite that he was attending many African Christian's churches and the church of his birth Catholic Church.

The reason he started attending the Africans Christian's churches was to get a good wife because they were plenty of women in the Africans Christian's churches.
Jeanne Sakina when she does the fast she doesn't care about food. She goes to the market and buys the best food she finds in the market that day. She doesn�t buy bad food, she continue her pray program. It even worst for her because she cooks. She has to smell the food; she doesn't stop cooking because she was fasting because her children, husband and Kalao have to eat. That means it more challenging for Jeanne to fast than Kalao. Kalao concluded: "Women do not have a problem because you eat the smell."

The African men believed it why many women eat less than men because they swallow a large quantity of smell in the kitchen. "You are the funniest person in all our community stop your jokes man."
"I am serious; I don't understand you every time I talk you don't take me seriously."
"Because you are always funny. We don't know when you are serious or not".
He asked his uncle's wife: "Tell me when you are fasting and cook don't you taste the food if it as salt or not?"
"That is woman secret in they kitchen"
"Because when you are fasting you don't have to taste any thing even a small spoon of soup."
"I won't tell you because it woman secret in her office kitchen�"

After tree months, Kalao keep thinking the way forward for his life. He becomes very insecure of if future so he wanted to boost his confidence:

I have now to try my best to die very rich or die trying. I have to put all my efforts to get more money. I have producer who may help me. But what will happen if I don't deliver? I will be mocked by the witch family, my enemies and I will disappoint my German producer and many fans�I have to deliver. I am not so confident�I am scared�I have to do something that will help me to deliver to expectation. God exist but he doesn't give us the things that we want instantly. It takes a long time for God to gives us the things we want. I feel so insecure and I have to try to boost my confidence. Without confidence I cannot perform properly�Any way a dead body is not shy or scared to get rotten. I have to do all I can to win the fight against poverty. I have to succeed. With God it takes a long time but I have to find a short cut. I will have to try a witch doctor who may give me a good luck in life, I am not going to kill no one or hurt no one. In Kisangu we used to see powerful witch doctor to solve our family problems. I remember Papa used to take the all family to a witch doctor and we used to have a solution to our problems�One of my friend in our choir told me about a witch doctor who heals and solves every kind of diseases�

The big deal that Kalao sign and the many fans that he acquired in his tribulation created some kind of fear. That pressure brought an immense insecurity in him.
He decided to go and see the famous Sangoma or witch doctor Shambojai without telling anyone even his uncle. He arrived at the witch doctor at around 1 hour in the afternoon. Shambojai the witch doctor was living in a town ship far at 10 kilometer of his uncle's house.
Shambojai told him to leave outside the room his shoes and all material having steal such us watches, rings, glasses and belt. When he entered he kneed down and look at the witch doctor who was a male in his late fifties with a lot bears, paint with different colors on his face. He looks very scary. The room was full of born, animal's skin, plants roots, red color mix to black and other color on the carpet. Strange smell in the room in the dark room. He looks at again the man and told him: "My lord I have come for help"
The witch doctor responded with a deep voice: "How can I help you my son?"
"I need luck and success in every thing I do and touch. I want really to be very famous too and very successful."
"How famous you want to be?"
"I want to be well known every where in the world, I want to live longer die rich instead of dying trying here and there to get rich and famous"
The witch doctor beat a small drum five times he was handling and said: "Um, this is really a quiet complicated process and very challenging. Let me go in my private room and ask to ancestors to find out more about your life and the sacrifice you have to make."
After some thirty minute the man comes back from his private room sweating: "My son I have just talk to the ancestors�You have to give something in exchange." In this World there is nothing for free. Even when you want to get foods, clothes. "Everything you have to pay even for the service of any body you have to pay�"
Kalao didn't know which kind of sacrifices he wanted: "I knew and I know that I have to pay, I come with some money and I am willing to pay you so you may be satisfied too. You have to be happy and I have to be happy for your service�"
The witch doctor looks at the young man and laughed then he said:

I have the impression that you don't know the secret of life yet, if you not careful you will die trying. There are two things in life: first you die rich or you die poor trying to get richer. We all come to the cities leaving our villages to try to die rich. Secondly poor are dying trying to be rich. You will never find any one in this World without a project. Those whom they projects are successful die rich and those whom their projects are not successful die poor. You have to choose�
Kalao quit chose: "I choose to die rich."
"Are you sure? I am so amazed how determine you are�"
The witch doctor beat again the drum five times and said: "Your ancestors are not asking for money only. There are many things more important than money"
Kalao stood straight and wondered what the man wanted beside money: "What is more important that money?"
"Many things�"

You have to make a sacrifice if you want to be successful in life. Sacrifice is what you need the most, it what it hurt. For example Christians and Muslims and many religions make sacrifices in fasting. They stay away from an important thing that their body need the most: food. Then those who make they sacrifice correctly their project turn successfully. Everything they touch turn into gold. That ultimate sacrifice is blood.
Kalao, the man looking for luck wondered what the meaning of blood was: "What to you mean blood?"
"You have to give something that is linked to human blood. Let me very specific a human blood?
The man thought that it was a easy sacrifice"
"I can go to hospitals buy blood and give you?"
"You haven't been to any witch doctor before and you don't know the secret of life and success."
Kalao explained why he wasn't in touch with the community reality: "I have been away for the active life in the community for 6 years and I have lost many realities of this world. I was in jail for the past 6 years"
The witch doctor or Sangoma hit again his small drum but this time tree times and said:

That is not a really a convincing excuse. By you age you must know what is blood sacrifice mean. It is to give a human to ancestors or a part of a body�You don't have to go and kill personally but take something from that person you need to give in sacrifice such us his nails, peace of clothes, his one belonging and specially his or her hair.
Kalao realized then that it was a very difficult task: "I can give one part of my body but I have already lost the sight of my left eye like you may see. So we may use it like a sacrifice."
Kalao was wearing glasses every where even in the dark room, he pull out from his eyes to show to the witch doctor the missing eye, as the doctor replied:

It doesn't not work like that, the sight of your eyes that you have lost accidentally in the real life may be eaten in the spiritual World by may be a witch from your family. I have to let know that the person you have to give has to be a member of your family not a friends, not neighbor or not a colleague.
It become more complicated and for once he regret why he went to see the witch doctor. He thought for five minutes what to do and come with an alternative solution: "I know that rule; I may give you my young brother who is mentally retarded."
Shambojai got angry as immediately stood up beating his drum many times: "Do you want to play with me. You didn't come here to joke. This is life and this is my work�I have helped many people in life �The door is open you may leave now�"
Kalao spoke softly to the angry man, pleading: "I am sorry if I hurt you, my brother is a human and is a member of my family. I think I have responded to your demand. Please listen to me, he is my brother and we have the same blood."
The witch doctor returned to his initially position and said: " It not my rule it is an universal rule. Yes it is your brother you share the same blood but is missing the most important requirement to a sacrifice. The mind may be his mind has been eaten already in the dark World by witch from your family. He is useless to be even mentioned" Sacrifice means what hurt the most. To deprive the body of what is very important in life. "You have to give a person you love the most and the most important member of the family"
He didn�t want to hear about a person that he love the most; he decided to make a self sacrifice: "I will accept to give one part of my body"
He wanted to give the eye that he lost during the battle with Amina's son who revenged her mother death in stabbing him at the eye. He was unhappy with few years that her mother's killer spends in jail and the support that people gave him.
But in the sacrificed ritual a part of the body lost before that were not required.
Karibuni told him. "Your ancestors didn't ask for your part of your body. You want to be known all over the World and you are not even ready to make a sacrifice. Give your fertility may be you will be married and not have kid."
The man immediately refused to the doctor proposition: "No, I cannot do that. Why must I live without having my own children. You know in our culture dying without having children is like dying forever. Like you never been in this earth. I have to leave children on this planet so it may remind people of my trip into this World. No that one."

Shambojai beat up again the drum this time seven times and said: "Okay, because you are not willing to give your procreation and the ancestors didn't ask for your part of your body because you want to be very successful give someone that you love the most and he is very important in your life remember he must be from your family sharing the same blood with you. Sacrifice is what hurt and what you need the most."
"I will choose between my mother and my uncle Sello. I love those two people and my uncle is a bread winner."
The witch doctor gave him a clue on his late choice: "Yes, the bread winner is the most important. The magic will work very well with the bread winner the most important man in your family and also it will work because you love him too."
Like if he was not thinking anymore he confirmed: "Yes we have a compromise, my uncle Sello."
The witch doctor this time whistle before beating is drum more than twenty times followed by a song in his indigenous language then said:" Mufu, mulufira temba si go"
With joy he told him: "I will help you to bring him here. I don't want you to be suspected like in trying to get his hairs, peace of clothes or even his nail. You may be caught and get in trouble with your family members. I have a very easy formula that works: Go and get his footprint and bring to me." Take the dust or little bit of soil of the footprint. "You must watch, when your uncle walk take carefully the dust of his footprint and put in small paper and bring here. Be careful I repeat because you may take someone else dust print and it will not work properly, if you take yours own footprint you will be mad."
"Yes we have a compromise, tomorrow I will bring it."

When Kalao get out of the house of the witch doctor he said to himself: "If it like this better die trying to get richer or poor how can I give a person that I love and he is the bread winner, hope of our family. How can I give someone who has made me what I am today?" This will be the biggest sin ever more than what Adam and Eve committed in the Garden of Eden. Adam and Eve ate only a simple garden's fruit.
Then he stopped walking just outside the doctor's yard. He returned in the yard and took some foot prints dusts find in the doctor's yard. No one saw him then he walked away.
The next day Kalao returned to the witch doctor. He did the same ceremony leaving belt, glasses, shoes, watch outside the doctor's door. He entered, the doctor ask him: "Did you bring what you have promised me?"
"I did exactly what you told me."
"Was it easy to get it or it was complicated?"
"My lord it was very easy to get my uncle dust but I managed".
The doctor had always that small drum with him. He beat up the drum and sings a song then he said: "I told you that my formula is the best formula in town. It is why I am the best doctor in town. Did I call you to come?"
"No, they told me about you."
"You see, I am well known and very respected by people in all the town. Some people even come from others towns very far to come to ask for my assistance�Give me the dust."
The doctor took the small paper where the dust was packed and continued: "Yes, we got your uncle but you will be more successful and richer than your uncle. You may be even 100 times more successful compare to your uncle. Let me go in my praying room and I am coming to tell you the result. I am sure the ancestors will accept it�"

Very excited the doctor went in his praying room. Meanwhile Kalao was looking at the human skeleton and other things in the room. The doctor's praying room was separated by a decorated curtain to his reception room.
This time the doctor went to do his magic stuffs and ceremonies. The foot dusts that Kalao took belonged to the witch doctor himself. The witch doctor left the print while walking in his own yard.
Shambojai the Sangoma performed many ceremonies to bring in the spirit of the man who had to die in few days. Then he went to see in his magic pot the face of the man who supposed to die but instead he saw his face in his magic pot. He tried to stop the process and thing were not going according his plan.
He tried to talk to his superior to stop the process without success then desperately he screamed and cried: "Mama mama I am dead."
Kalao who was waiting anxiously heard the words and get afraid. The witch tried to speed up the process to rescue his life.
His ancestor told him that it is to late his body has gone in another World and he is dying in few coming days. His body was already in the World where there is no coming back on this earth.
He made his own funeral mourning his own death. Then he comes out not angry but weak, discouraged and upset. He told slowly to Kalao like a cassette player that the batteries are flat: "You have killed me �You have killed me�I punish you will never sleep at night time if you try to sleep at the night time you will die and join your ancestors. You will sleep forever during the nights. Good bye�Good bye, you have killed him."
The king of voodoo voodoo left wordless the doctor's room. Shambojai organized later his funeral and his mourning knowing that he is leaving the World soon.
Kalao has to meet the new challenge in his life of no sleeping during night time only during day.

CHAPTER TEN : THE ULTIMATE DISASTER

The city was catching up in technology with the European cities but still they were behind many modern cities around the world. They installed the telephone line in Leonville. Sello made sure to get also the telephone in his house. In having a telephone will help him to be in contact with the king of voodoo voodoo who could be traveling with his German producer.

There was an international festival in Munich in Germany. Many musical groups in the World were invited. Kalao producer was not only the manager of Kalao Philips was producer of more than 20 independent artists and more than 10 traditional groups.

They send him an invitation of 2 groups and 2 individuals� solo artists to go to perform in Munich for two weeks.
The manager looks at the criteria and decides to expose his new acquisition. Kalao was also one of his latest acquisitions.

He informed Kalao the news so he may practice hard to go and impress many people in that festivity.

Sello didn't know why lately Kalao change habit. He was sleeping during day time and in the night he was watching television and walking a lot. He continued with this habit before he left for Germany.

When he arrived in Munich he adapt easily to the culture and city there because he was living in a big city already in Africa. The technology and the construction was advanced compare to the African city. He called his uncle Sello to tell me what he was seeing in another continent:
"�Uncle, the trip was enjoyable." Kalao said.
"How long, it takes you to reach Munich?" Sello asked.
"It took us some ten hours because we caught two airplanes."

This was great news for Sello. The man who opened doors for Kalao in taking him from the rural area in Africa and exposing him to the world. It is biggest achievement in life. Sello couldn't imagine that singing talent who makes travel Kalao thousand of kilometers in another continent. What a joy for Sello it took Kalao only hours while to travel in another continent while it takes them days or a month in the raining season to reach their native village Kisangu not even thousand miles away. The new technological is more accessible to those who travels long distance.

The plane that Kalao took made a short scale in Berlin for twenty minutes then they took another plane to Munich.

Many African from different African countries. It look like the festival will be composed by many performers from around the world and we will have less time to perform to give chances to other performers to showcase their talent.

Philips, have insisted on one point, he urged his singers not to be shy to sing in their mother's language. There is no mistake in the audience who do not understand their mother�s languages.

Many things are different in the eyes of Kalao. Most of the people in Africa are black but here most of the people are white. The beggar on streets are white, the workers and bosses are white. It is a different world to me. Blacks are rare here like white are rare in their country.

Kalao enjoyed the experience in Europe, I didn't regret of being in Europe. He noticed that the city is very clean. There are dustbin every where, people don't have to throw things on street like they do in Leonville. They people here speak another language. The people are friendly and their talk to them and ask them how is Africa.

Kalao felt that when you are alive, you may still dream. In their culture they say that when someone is alive never laugh at him because you don't know what he might be in future. Kalao never dreamed when he was singing in funeral and wedding in Kisangu that he will end up one day in Europe?

He never thought that he will see what he was experiencing today. He never thought that I will see Germany.

He never dreams that the witchcraft drama will brought him attention and by that attention caught the eyes of an international producer.

He never thought that the witchcraft events that lead him into prison will open also some doors to him

It is why God is the God of circumstance and time. Where end of strength and intelligence start God strength and intelligence.
Kalao was telling to his uncle who was just installed the telephone line in Africa. Sello enjoyed the advantage of this new technology. To be able to communicate with someone who is far and interchange dialogue:
"I am really grateful for what God is doing for me, from Kisangu to town, then from the town to Europe. I don't even pressurize myself. Philip told me to enjoy my moment here even in the concert." Kalao said "He said that you don't have to concentrate on words when I perform. He said that they don't understand what I will be talking in my song. The concentrate on watching the energy in the performance�He said that all the bad moves in dances in Africa will not be noticed here."

Sello was happy handling the phone while Jeanne wanted to talk to Kalao too, and his children Shona, Bwalya, Dumisani and the new born Bangu were busy doing noise in the living room: "Philip is right and he is the most respectable producer. He has sent many artists to Europe and other parts of the world over the years. He has the experience to manage artists. What you have to do in that podium is to be very energetic. Do all you can in the performance as long that you express that energy? I trust you and I know that you are representing our family in Germany and the all country in the Munich. How is your left eye?"

"I had some mild pain yesterday but now I don't feel any pain."
He reminded Kalao to kept rubbing, that medicine the doctors gave him every time he felt the eye paining. He insisted that he will talk to Philip to bring him to the hospital in Munich to consult a doctor and have some latest medicine while Kalao still in Europe.
Kalao told his uncle Sello: "I will phone you soon. I love you."
"I am happy to hear you. I am proud of you, my greeting to all the artists who represent our country in Germany."
"Uncle, I am really representing the family and the country, I will do my best to leave a good impression here." Kalao said �Greet the family, in Africa and I will call after my first performance."
"See you my boy."
"Bye."
"Bye."

He had to perform in tree shows in the city. The first show was so spectacular. The producer was so impressed and was delight by his new signers.

There were staying in a hotel. Kalao was living at the eighth floors. The hotel had a night club in the ground floor.
Kalao enjoyed the lift of the building taking him up and down like a small airplane.
Because Kalao didn't suppose to sleep at night he was spending a lot of time in the night. He used to return in his bedroom in the early hours of the morning.

There was no way that Kalao could escape the drinking habit sitting in the night club all night long. He become a drinker too and started mixing with drinkers. He made some friends in his short stay in the city. Then he made a friendship with a woman who was selling at the counter. The woman was so impressed by the stories that Kalao was talking him. The stories of his village and customs back home. Albertina was in her early twenties. The woman could speak French after spending some years in France that was an advantage of communication and makes Kalao very comfortable to talk to her.

Kalao used to loose control when he was drink. Naturally Kalao was a talkative man but was shy to approach the women but when he was drinking he used to talk to everybody. He eventually fell in love to that woman who was selling beer at the counter in the night club. He started teasing her friend: "You are very beautiful like the water of the river flowing without an end�"
Albertina also feels was comfortable talking to Kalao: "I pray that you don't return to Africa."

Kalao was the kind of man who makes people laugh even if there are in a bad mood when people just look at they feel like laughing. It what makes him also very popular, even if he is serious people had just difficulties to different when he was joking or when he was serious. When Albertina arrives for work she feels so bad when she doesn't see Kalao but when Kalao enter the night club she always get exited.

Kalao was raised and taught to love everybody except witches. For him everybody were his friend. With the taught of constantly sharing, everybody were just part of the family.
He had few enemies in his entire life. He loved teasing people. The only woman he was getting close too was Albertina who knew to speak French. That alone was a huge advantage.

You are talking like your like mother. I never see your mother but I have the impression that your are her photocopy. You always remind me of a woman who I loved before when I was back in the village climbing tree and mountains. If I arrived her long time ago I could have been the champion of climbing the top of the mountain here in Europe. The top of Everest may be, I used to watch that woman from trees. I used to make sure that she doesn't see me. I was watching her movement from far. Then I decided to approach her but every time I see her my heart was beating so fast that I couldn't tell her what I have planned to tell her. Then one day I return home I heard a night mare that that girl was chasing me. I tried to cry but the voice was not coming out. Then when I tried to scream hard for help eventually the voice come out from my sleep. My brother with whom I was sharing the room wakes me up and told me that I was crying. I was so disappointed that my brother heard me crying. I asked him what I was talking in my sleep. He told me that I was crying for help. Then I decided to talk the girl the following day. I knew that she used to pass next to my house to go and bath to the river. There in village there is no bathroom. We all go to bath in group, they was time for women to bath, time for young boy to bath, time of girls to bath and time for man to bath. There was no privacy. I decided to tell her that I loved her. I miss her when she was going to the river then in her return I got her she was coming carrying a pot of water on top of her head. I was so decided to talk to her and then when she was approaching my heart started beating fast. I tried hard regulating my heat beating without no success. The more she approached the more my heart beat fast. I was encouraging my self that I am a man, a fighter and a climber I have to tell her I love her. I cannot effort dreaming about a girl who doesn't even know that I think about her. Then she approached I was like someone who was pushed to talk. I call she look at me and stopped. Instead of telling her that I love her I end up telling: can I have some water to drink, please. Gently the girl took down the pot of water and gave me a cup water. I run short of the words to continue my conversation and every word I planned to tell her vanished in my head in a split of a second. I started sweating when the weather was cold that day. She gave me a cup full of water and I drank when I was not that thirst. The reason of telling you this story is that I wanted to tell you from my first day that I am interested in you. It took me many days to get at the stage of telling how I feel about you. I come here every night until the early morning just to see you. I do all this sacrifices because of my love to you. Something is too strong in me pushing me to tell you this stupid word I love you.

The woman apparently showed some interest too. Those African's stories were just to unique to be interesting. Albertina was imaging how life could be in the rural area in Africa.
Many African were trying to be European showing how they were raised in the big city like the European one. They were not proud of their identities. But Kalao stick and very proud of he is. Albertina could comment too: "Oh man it really good to hear to those sweet words�I hope really that you may find someone else. I am very interested in you I want you to be my friend may be in future we may talk loved. I have someone else in my life. And he is a jealous man. He may hurt you. You know if you care of someone you will not want him to be in trouble. My boy friend is very jealous�"
What many European call jealousy is witchcraft in the eye of Africans
Kalao was rushing things because he knew that he has very few days left in the city:

In the true Africa traditional culture boy friend and girl friend do not exist. Only fianc�, fianc�e, and husband, wife exist. He didn't know when he may return here. May be he might come back or may be he will never return back. He missed a woman that he loved a lot in the village because he was shy and he really pray that he don't loose Albertina this time.

He remembers another man Xamba in prison who was in his sicties was advising him that you don't have to find or look for love, it will find. You never know where and how or when you will meet your lover. He never thought that he will end up in an hotel one day and fail in love with woman. He tried at the church but he didn't find anyone like his uncle.

Xamba who was spending many times with Kalao in jail was teaching him many things while a lot of the inmates who grow up in the urban area didn't have time to listen to an old man in jail. But this man from the rural area had all the respect of old people. They taught him that the old people were living dictionaries because they have experienced many things in life and have the ability to educate.
Kalao was taught that the mouth of old people's stinks but not those words from that mouth. The old man may not be that clean but he has the secret of life.
Xamba told him one day that there is no specific formula for success because everybody is different. Xamba told him that the problem with this generation is that people things that other's man formula or recipe of success may be everybody success's way too forgetting that there is no specific formula of success in life. People were just different.

Kalao didn't want to be a looser twice. He wanted to take Albertina like his wife and make her the mother of his children. He prayed that their first child will inherit Albertina's physical look and everything that she has. He was telling the woman: "I want your name to be written in my heart for ever"
Albetrina wasn't that skinny. She was a fat European lady. Many people believed that fat woman had the ability to carry well their children in their body. Kalao had a crash on skinny women like Jeanne Sakina the model look alike. But he realized that his uncle taste may not be his, Sello wanted skinny women but Kalao liked skinny woman too but not to make them his wife.
That crashes he had he realized that it was just for some moment crash not a permanent one. Africans loved the fat woman called: �African built woman�, they were respected for bearing well the children too while Europeans were obsess with skinny women.

Xamba told him that people marry the one they meet when they are ready to this commitment. All the people has meet many people's in their lives but they were not ready to take such us commitment at that time because they were not mental, physically and financial ready to make that commitment at that time.

Kalao was living his culture. He learns from his mentor and uncle Sello how to be proud of his identity. While many African were hiding their Kalao was not hiding his. When he met people every where, he was proud from the start to tell them that he was an African born in a rural area.
The woman after hearing those sweat words of the determined man answered:

�You make me so confused if they were a way to cheat with you I could have done. My boy friend never proposed to marry me but you proposed me with a sincere heart. I am confused to turn down your proposition. You have a good singing career even if I never see you performing because when you sing I am busy working, you are good looking and on top of that funny. I am really confused right now. The problem is my boy friend Francis. He is a dangerous man who is a security in another company and he is a very jealous man. He may hurt you my friend. Let be friends�

The thought of the mountain Kizito come into his mind. The ability to be a fighter and get what you want in life. Those torturing ceremony in that initiative school left a scar in his heart. A scare to fight not to be scared of anything.
Xamba the old man in jail told Kalao that it is difficult in our day in town where the African culture was in a state of coma ready to die anytime to find a woman without a boy friend. Xamba told him that sweet words and perseverance will soften the woman heart. Xamba warned him that it was difficult to get a woman who says yes the first time. Some women need a fighter man to say yes.

Xamba told Kalao that the man is often the first one to suffer when approaching a woman but when a man's heart his fed up. The woman who was slow to love a man will be the last one to suffer because she will want the man even when he is tired of her.
Xamba concluded that the man's heart is the first one to be broken but the easier one to get tired but the woman's heart was the last one to get broken but the hardest one to get tired or fed up. It why the woman's are very sensitive they are the one who get disappointed in the love affair.

The sixty years old prisoner told the king of voodoo voodoo that every rose�s trees got thorn and there was no woman who has her caprice in the world. They all have they caprices and not to expect to get easily to every roses because the road in full of pains.
Kalao confessed to Albertina: "It is an impossible task to do; I cannot live without you�"

Albertina didn't answer him immediately. The woman who works night shift ignored him for a while and went to serve other's customer. Kalao realized that the woman could have been upset of what Kalao have told her. She broke two glasses and was very rude with many customers in that night club.
The man who was punished by a witchdoctor not to sleep during night time. Before he left the club in early morning. Albertina told him: "Let me think." Albertina said "I will answer tomorrow, I mean today afternoon."
"I am performing tomorrow I won't be able to arrived here sooner." Kalao promised "I may come back from the show in the early morning."
"I will answer you the tomorrow then."

It was a big task for Albertina to do. She has to make a decision that she won�t regret for the rest of her life. To leave Francis her boy friend or to take Kalao as a husband or to go out with both of you the same time. The matter his complicated also because she shared the flat with her boy friend�

There was a man who knew the woman�s boy friend in the people who were drinking in the night club. He noticed twice the girl laughing and talking to Kalao the previous night. He went to tell the boy friend.

They boy friend decided to make a trap. He sent the man who told him the news to follow all their movements and keep updating him the development. He kept giving him money to buy many beers in the night club. Suddenly the man who used to be rare in the club started coming every day.
Kalao when he return in his room said to himself: "She was difficult to get before now she is falling to my words. I have next time to come up with a technique that will technically knock her down �She is confused right now it is a good sign."

The second show went also well for Kalao. There was one show left for Kalao and one week left in the city. He had to come out with a last time formula to get the heart with the woman.

He went to see the woman who broke his heart: "How are you Kalao?"
"Not 100% fine still something his missing in my life."
"How was the show?"
"The show went fine."
The price of not sleeping at night was very heavy. Kalao end up dancing and drink much night. And in the morning, he will be vomiting and nursing the stomach pain most of the time. He had to force his nature to adapt to another system of life. When people are awake Kalao spend most of the time sleeping. For sometime Kalao called himself and compare himself to a "Owl". He was happy at least that he saved the life of the man who loved him and gave him so much opportunities his uncle Sello.

Kalao performed two songs; it was difficult to have a chance to perform many songs the way he wanted to. There hundred of artists and groups from many countries who come to perform too. They time were very limited, he hope that Albertina might come in my last show to say good bye. He was decided to rock the audience with his hidden secret. The voodoo voodoo songs and lyrics.
Philips has kept a boom for the audience. Kalao travel with the traditional clothes and make up for the festival. Voodoo voodoo costumes were very different to many performers artist. It was an upgraded costume with more than twelve tribe make up in it. The costume had many fantasies to attract the audience plus the Batetela mask. One of the most wanted traditional mask in the world.
"I feel so bad when you are talking about good bye." Albertina said "If I was able to stop you from returning home I could have done so�I want to see you many more time again�"
When she was talking she made up her mind to go out with two men the same time: his long time boy friend and the new man in her life Kalao. Kalao kept proposing to her: "It is a struggle already for me. If I had some powerful magic I could flied away with you in a World were we could be just two of us far away of every body."
"Kalao, please let talk about other things today."

Albertina has made her decision. The truth if she didn't tell Kalao in time that she has some feeling for him but Kalao had meet her at the bad time when she was seeing someone else. She decided to change the subject for a while.
"Tell me Kalao, why you always wear dark glasses?" Albertina asked.
This was challenging to Kalao to respond as he tried to avoid relating all his passed said experience: "I wear dark glasses because I want to see properly, I am a very shy man."
"At night every time?"
"My eyes, got use to wear the dark glasses" Kalao defended himself "if I don't wear it I cannot see properly�It is my trade mark."
"That quiet strange" Francina noticed "tell me why you don't sleep at night?"
"Because, I am an artist and I was raised not to sleep at night. For me night is my working time when I perform. The second reason is that I want to see you because I loves you. You work at night and I have to struggle the all night just to see you.

Albertina couldn't believe that a man has loved her so much so he refuses to sleep because of her.
Then Kalao give her a plane he made with a peace of paper, kneed down and said to the woman named Albertina: "Albertina I give you this stupid plane to tell you that Albertina I am ready give you everything in this world and be anybody in this World just to be with you�I am not a billionaire, I am not from a rich family but you may make me happy more than a billionaire. You are all for me and you are all that I wanted to be�I give you this plane in a symbol to remind you that I could have given you a plane if really I was a very rich man�"

Kalao has learned the only way to win the heart of a woman is to be simple and not trying to impress any woman. It is a danger when you impress a woman, in pretending to be rich or romantic. The day she will find the truth she will easily dump you. It was one of the reasons that many people who impressed they lovers were divorcing.
The man who was send by the woman's boy friend to follow the movement and went to phone the woman boyfriend to the public phone. And kept a close eyes on the new lovers.

The woman hugged Kalao. It was a very stupid move but caught the sympathy of the woman. They continue to chart and drink some beer with the woman while she was working. The woman used to knock off in the early hours in the morning.

When the woman finished working Kalao invited her in her room. They were all drank and went in Kalao bedroom.
The man who was spying caught the movements and Kalao's room number.
In the morning after four hours the woman's boyfriend knocks at Kalao's door. There were all sleeping the woman was also tired from his night shift job and Kalao was in his usual sleep time. Kalao thought that it was a cleaner who usually arrived in the morning to clean the room and opened the door.

The man who was in his middle thirties pulls out a gun. Albertina boys� friend was named Francis. He was not talking a lot by nature and use to be a very decisive and jealous man.
The woman who was in bed wake up semi nuked and went to prevent Francis from shooting: "Francis no. Francis no�Please doesn�t do that�"
"I didn't come here to talk but to act. I am here to act and then face the consequence."
He pushed Albertina and she went to fall at about tree meters. Breaking the few plates he found in that Bachelor. It has a double bed, toilet and a small kitchen with a stove and few plates and cups. He open the cupboard saw Kalao performing clothes and mask. Throwing it all over and turning his mattress up set down.
He went to the stove and switched on the stove.
He looks at Kalao and said: "I give tree choices." Francis said "The first one is to choose to jump from the window�The second one is to be killed by bullet and the third and the last one his to sit on the stove. Which one to choose? Then I will the same to your girl friend then I will also choose if I have to kill myself or go to jail."
Kaloa replied: "I will jump from the window."
"Go go go or I shoot�" Francis shouted.

Francis closed the door and took the key with him. Kalao thought that he could jump and only get injured but when he was about to jump he saw small cars and people by the window he changed is mind. He realized that there is no way to escape death once he jumps from the window. Albertina got injured in process when she was pushed. She kept screaming for help while Francis was determining to punish them: "Shut up you. There is no way you will be helped. You are next to my list."
Kalao said after changing his mind: "Please boss allow me to sit on the stove."
The stove was already very hot. Kalao look at the stove it was red and hot he hesitated to sit on it but the man who had the gun on his head look at so serious that this time he will never allow him to change is mind.
"I will shoot now." Francis said.
"Yes boss I am sitting."
Kalao cried desperately when he sat on the hot plaque of the stove. The neighbor called the security who were on their way to Kalao's room. Francis continues his mission.
The first thing that comes in his mind was the witches. They have crossed the sea and ocean to make him suffer even in a European land. He thought that the jealous people were keep sending him unfortunate circumstance to suffer. He has lost his eyes now the witches use a white man to punish him.
He realized that Amina's spirit and many witches might be following him every where he goes.
Francis was a tall and very fit man, who face has shown none sympathy to those news lovers.
Kalao could have live alone Albertina if she was married. In their culture cheating with a married woman was a big scene. They respect all the married women and view them as dead women. Because it was forbidden to approach a married woman. Dead woman means someone not to talk too or not to touch.
"Albertina, you are the next." Francis said "Quick choose between jumping from the window, sat on fire like your boy friend or be killed."
The woman made a choice: "I choose none of those them�"
"Okay then I will choose for you." Francis said "I will throw you from the window�" then he added "Then after I am done with you I kill myself."
The tree suggestion of Francis has to be accomplished. His first victim has to sit on the fire. The second one to be thrown by the window and uses his gun to shoot himself.
Then the securities break the door to rescue them and caught Francis.
Kalao was severely burned. He stays in wheel chairs for many days and his staying visa was extended for medical reason.
Albertina showed now what she was feeling for Kalao. She was with him for all the tribulation. And the love affairs that started as an adventure and curiosity of each other become visible.
Kalao thought that the women will dump him once he saw his left eyes. But the women loved him with one eye.
Francis was arrested but realized on bail while Albertina later married Kalao and travel with him Leonville after years. After tree years in Africa Kalao left his mother land and he lived between Africa and Europe.

Kalao who heard many European ignoring the witchcraft was wondering why they could not believe that witchcraft exist. What Francis did to him and his lover was simply called Jealous but it was also part of witchcraft. An uncontrollable jealousy to hurt not to protect somebody was called too witchcraft.
Kalao felt that the witchcraft will never end. He thought sometime that because he has left his native continent the witches won't cross the Ocean or the sea but he realized that they were no hiding from the bad people. Many Africans believed that witchcraft do not exist in Europe may be it has different names.
He wondered that who the witch is. Who is the bad human? Who is the one who brings suffering to human, rich or poor?
He concluded that the biggest witch and the first witch was Satan the devil.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

WELCOME TO THE CITY

Meditating on the new World we are living in. The improvement in the human life with the advanced of technology that have been experiencing every where. I don�t believe that they are countries more developed and under developed. I believe that they are country more advanced in technology and country less advanced in technology. We seem to forget our culture and values thinking human it equal material. Many end up being criminal to obtain the materials. We have created a sport or game of comparison to X to be better than Y. Happiness is peace of heart. The bigger answer of our prayers is the capacity to enjoy life being happy with what we have. It is why lately many kind of meditation have developed the way to find peace of heart. I find a very good motivation for myself very bizarre: Mobutu-Mandela (Lumumba) or do the right things. I only compare the life of those two peoples. Why those two people only? It because I am Congolese I lived in that Regime under Mobutu before coming to live in Mandela country South Africa.

Mobutu was a dictator in Congo we all praised him or even pray him as a god. There is no Congolese who didn�t dance for him before 1997. He took power very young by coup d�etat. We were growing up thinking he is eternal.

But Mandela who was fighting for the equality of all people was jailed from his acting life comes out of jail very old. Now let compare those personality.
Mobutu was chased away from his Kingdom die faraway in Morocco buried by 5 peoples. He was abandoned by his own army and collaborators. Those Billions of $ he had disappear and don�t we don't know really if they existed. Humiliated from Hero to Zero.
But Mandela will be remembered by every generations and every people, he is one of the people who will be always respected. The same with Lumumba the man who was killed by the dictator. The main that fought for independence of his country. Mobutu the killer is forgotten but Lumumba the killed still respected as a hero today all over the world.

I encourage those people who are doing the right thing to keep on. The reason is not immediate they recognize the reason after many days and you may be even persecuted even by your people, family, friends and not forgetting the community. THE WORLD AND PEOPLE IS ONE EXTENDED FAMILY. PAUVRETY IS NOT A SIN AND MATERIALISM IS NEW A DESEASE THAT GROWING TO A FAST RATE.

We are talking about a young man who by Influenced by the materialism decided to leave a rural area for a better life in town.
Rural area was just unprivileged not underdeveloped there was not accessibility to latest technology. It was just another area of civilization different to the fast growing city.

The reason of choosing the title: die rich or die trying is that I never meat a man without project. We all have project to get richer if we don't get reach we die trying.
From the same author Dicho:
- Postal card: A life an Africans students in the 1960 in Europe.
- The cannibals: A life of colonist in 1900 and the cannibalism in Africa.
- VERBAL DIARRHOEA: A journalist and a reporter who survive a plane crush on his way to South Africa to report on AIDS epidemic.
- A prince in New York: A life of a prince who went to New York to study and find his love of his choice.
- Angelic and demoniac verses: An interpretation of Biblical verses and the will of making miracle.
- Eye for eye and teeth for teeth: a follow up of angelic and demoniac verses.
- The lost dream (Baku aller): an autoradiography, where I got the inspiration.
- Vice versa: a collection of 12 short stories, many from the novels.
- Doctor love: A detective with some African social cases.

Coming soon (Fiction) the title may be modified after the editing process.

- The hand of God (part one): Soccer novel.
- Stumbling block: the fall of a dictatorship regime.
- The high and the low: A collection of short stories.
Coming Soon ( Non-Fiction)
- Encyclopedia (The conventional world): Self scientific research.

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