Tjilenje Tje Ngwao - Hosana Dance (Botswana)

This dance is performed by the Bakalanga people when asking for rain from the Bakalanga deity (Mwali). It can also be performed to request ancestors to stop the floods as well as thanking ancestors for a good harvest. A similar dance is performed in Zimbabwe along Plumtree areas and Tsholotsho. Performed by Tjilenje Tje Ngwao (Francistown)

[@melby6512]

For all nay sayers and doubters ,this are Kalangas from the Northern part of Botswana ,you should learn that many tribes are found all over Southern Africa

[@mthubeli]

While it is Kalanga wosana dance they are actually singing in IsiNdebele talking about the Njelele shrine in South Matabeleland.

[@mkhululisibindi8678]

They are singing in Ndebele (Khonale e Njelele , akuyi muntu , ugogo uyangibiza)

[@thabomartins4484]

Connects to a place I've never been, even though I don't know what they're singing about

[@isibanesethucommunity7866]

It says at Tjelele(sacred place of worship) no one goes there but my ancestors are calling me.Have to go there

[@believemalaba9577]

Lililili zanani bana bebuKalanga ludzi gwenu goku boThobela bodziba levula , muzane mujali misi yose 👏

[@sibusisosbu7127]

Hawu suka madoda ayikhale. Muhle umsebenzi wenu. Ithi ngithe nje repeat. Ayikhaleeeeeeeee

[@wunganayigrastianmasiyiwa4138]

Although the Rozwi empire is no more, it left us with strong culture and excellent traditional dance and music.

[@angelaellendlovu6578]

We are here. So long we are here, Our identity and footprint is here

[@mamoyoT]

We are here

[@boimahlathini171]

Nobody does it better than JACKALAS 2 NORTHEAST BOTSWANA

[@SibusisiweMlalazi]

This is the kalanga original hosana dance, banisi be vula bana bekuNjelele ka Manyangwa. Ndadza hakumbula iwo mayile

[@fanimatsebane1702]

I don't understand the words but this is powerful

[@praisesilasmafuka7471]

Why does it sound like mhande from the Karangas in Zimbabwe 😳

[@tumelomoyo854]

Because we're basically the same people. We just got seperated

[@zephaniarutlokwana2891]

Its so beautiful to watch Kalanga art of dancing and music 2 thousand kilometers away from home. It has put put north Botswana in Capetown 🙏🙏🙏

[@preciousanelendlovu6134]

Ayikhale bakalanga

[@naletsanaele]

MamaLand❤🇧🇼

[@onyinyesunday6464]

God bless Africa

[@tshedzamaphosa7808]

Ayikhale baKalanga

[@dscorner_]

BaTswana!!!😢😢 these people are proof of unity in Africa.

[@isibanesethucommunity7866]

Kalanga southern part of Zimbabwe

[@tumelomoyo854]

Actually those aren't Batswana. Traditionally at least.

[@ndingisanonfazo]

@@isibanesethucommunity7866 batswana from northern part of botswana(masunga) group tjilenje tje ngwato. Pure tswana of kalanga tribe

[@mphokuhlemoyo7101]

Kalanga people. Population just under 2mil in Southern Africa. Botswana - 600 000 Zimbabwe - 1 100 000 Limpopo Region

[@vavariroyashemunozogara7968]

Wooooow, this is powerful

[@SARURAKIDS]

This is just fantastic! Thank you for uploading this

[@moolashamukuni5709]

Bakalaka ba kae ?ngwao ya rona ke e o .... mpululu boswadzi

[@KennethSibanda-mj4fq]

Bakalanga batjinhu tjili one

[@user-vu6kj3js5y]

Proud of my culture

[@thembincube1076]

Ayikhale

[@miss_shutitdown]

A proud Kalanga 😊

[@buhletshuma4755]

Lililili ayikhale !!!

[@punigolekwang1534]

I love this group bathong yoo 😭 ayi khale

[@progressivemusicacademyzim9652]

This is more than good

[@thonaci]

Great! ❤️❤️👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿

[@washingtonmunemo2778]

That's good ummm kuseri

[@twisechabvuta4934]

uuumm i like that

[@vanithavanitha635]

Ngiyazithanda yoo

[@karengarrison4237]

They gettin' it!

[@maidomoss620]

What are the lyrics❤️❤️🔥?

[@residentalien310]

Kalanga and Karanga(shona) are cousines

[@wunganayigrastianmasiyiwa4138]

It was one language and they were all people of one tribe when they arrived in Timbave(now Zimbabwe) sometime BC. Others lived in the East of the country and others in the West. They ruled the country as a kingdom from the east of the country till some of them, who were not from royal family(the Rozvi), formed an army and ended the kingdom ruled by a Maka(king), then formed the Rozvi kingdom as new rulers. The Tozvi then based their headquarters in the west of the country. They are all same people

[@mamoyoT]

They are x1 person

[@Zinhle314]

This dance is called Shangara in Shona the Karanga people!

[@Mthethwa594]

Yi Hosana le, hayi lokho okushoyo

[@GusDChihabaSr]

Sei MaKalanga muchiramba kuti muri hama dzeMaKaranga? Ava varikutamba mhande chaiyo

[@momof3941]

Havarqmbe ,we acknowledge that , I guess is the same with the shonas ,some don't believe they're the same people

[@gudoguruchigs5735]

Look like mhande from masvingo

[@go-goouma1517]

Yes I also don't have an idea what are they singing for where can I practice this dance

[@tiemji]

Hello, i really love this song, is it possible to have lyrics and translation please? Thanks in advance

[@ngwenyap]

The song is about an African Shrine place called "Njelele", a place with so much ancestoral importance. Aficans used to go there when there was drought to ask for the rain. The song tgoes "Khona le Njelele akuyi muntu, Gogo uyambiza" meaning "There at Njelele noone goes there, Grandmother is calling me".

[@molokojackson3555]

looks like zcc nkedi dance

[@yolandagreen2577]

Similar to ndebele hosana from zim even the song

[@loratobaenele5125]

hosana is a Kalanga culture not ndebele!!

[@MsSchela]

Wrong. Goo check again. This is tjiKalanga

[@xolanindlovu6158]

@@loratobaenele5125 Khalanga is part of the Ndebele Kingdom in Matebeleland today.

[@maleselaradebe7091]

this looks like one of dances south African bapedi woman do

[@tshifhiwandou7819]

Most of tribes that are original Kalanga do this kind of dance, like Vendas, Pedi are children of Venda, that's why they have adopted some of Venda culture, like this dance, Dinaka, and so forth, in Northern Sotho there is a lot of tribes that trace their roots to Vhukalanga, tribes like Bakone, Balobedu, Babirwa, Vhanyai

[@normanmdzimiri1773]

What is that dance by bapedi woman called? Malesela Radebe

[@wino4624]

Bo thobela

[@nomasikonhliziyo5615]

This is not from Botswana these are the Khalanga from Zimbabwe not Botswana that’s why they are mixing their Khalanga with Ndebele, it might be similar but this is not Botswana and Njelele is in Zimbabwe I don’t think there is Njelele in Botswana stop promoting other countries with other people’s culture

[@lumbiig]

I think it is from Botswana - if you listen to the commentary from the people watching it’s all in Setswana. Because borders are manmade, im sure the culture seen in Zimbabwe with the khalanga people you’re speaking of would be very similar if not the same to the kalanga people in Botswana :)

[@xolanindlovu6158]

@Bryan Lekolwane yes, but these are same people. Borders were made by colonizers. Njelele is in Matebeleland in Modern day Zimbabwe.

[@motshwari]

It's in Botswana. This traditional group is from my home village Ramokgwebana, close to Plumtree hence the Ndebele. People in Ramokgwebana aren't Ndebele, They're Kalanga, but there obviously has been interactions between the two tribes.

[@reginalddithapo7922]

also pay attention to the colors of the beads around their waist and heads, they are blue black and white , which signifies the Botswana flag. a lot of villages closer to the Zimbabwe/ Botswana boarder speak Ndebele on the Botswana side, because those where not the original boarders that were made by the natives/Africans

[@mmapulajowawa9321]

A voice shouts off the scene.....'bongwanake'.