Marunga Totem (Mozambique Origin)
Mazviita Shiri,
Marunga,
Matapira,
Ziendanomudenga,
Pasi yakatya ndove,
Mudyanavana,
Kunyima vana zvinoshura,
Vakadzi kuvarume vavo,
Vaira shiri nebanga hazvionani,
Zvombo zveshumba,
Muranda wavanhukadzi.
Zvaitwa Marunga yangu yiyi,
Shiri isina shura nomunhu,
Haiwa, maita Shiri,
Mwana waChasura.
Maita zvenyu vaChifambanokudenga,
Zvaitwa vaira Shiri,
Shiri chena, tarirai kwadzinobva,
Gonerakudera, vaMurefu,
Mapatapasi,
VokwaChinobhururuka,
Muira shiri wangu yuyu,
Shiri iri Marunga.
Aiwa zvaonekwa ziendanomudenga.
Ko kudeketera Marunga Hangayiwa
ReplyDeletethink you are right this is Hungwe not Marunga Hangaiwa this is the wrong detembo
DeleteKo kudeketera Marunga Hangayiwa
ReplyDeleteNdiyo imwe chete
DeleteThus Zenda/ Shiri/Mauruka
DeleteKurema chaiko
DeleteKurema chaiko
Deleteaiwa torema mheni anamarunga
ReplyDeleteEheka torema ana amarunga
DeleteKurema chteee
ReplyDeleteThat is Lunga truly tineukama nehungwe asi hatisi Hungwe
ReplyDeletehow can we be related to hungwe
DeleteI love my totem mhani
ReplyDeleteKana nemi proud
DeleteKana nemi I'm proud
DeleteThe Chikunda Tradition and the rise of the Malunga totem
ReplyDeleteThe Marunga totem also known as Malunga mainly originates from Mozambique and is actually one and the same as the Hungwe totem. Although there is some confusion around marunga being a Guinea Fowl (Hanga) rather than the well-known Fish Eagle (Hungwe), increasingly there is agreement that it is one and the same totem as there is no other known bird totem besides Hungwe.
The Chikunda (or Conquerors) were a feared warrior people recruited by the Portuguese Prazeiros (landowners) to protect their Prazos (farms) along the Zambezi valley. Later, the Chikunda rebelled and deserted their Portuguese masters taking on a life of hunting and banditry.
One such Chikunda leaders was Kanyemba aka Jose Rosario de Andrade, the son of the Tande Chief Chowufumo, Chowufumo, and a Goan mother. Reference to Tande is particularly interesting in the light of Hungwe migrations. Tande is presumed to refer to their area of origin Dande on the Zimbabwean side of the Zambezi valley before they settled in the Tete area of Mozambique. The Goan reference refers to the Indian origin of the mother while the Portuguese name also refers to a Portuguese descent. The Goan settled in India from the north and they were mainly of Caucasian descent (much closer to the Persians than the dark-skinned Indians) and were referred to as the Brahmins, the highest caste in Indian culture. When the Portuguese colonised Goan, they married into the Goan community and Kanyemba’s mother was therefore of mixed Portuguese-Indian descent.
Despite his reluctance to sever his ties with family members on the Euro-Indian side of the frontier, he was despised by the Goans, who referred to him as a "half caste" scoundrel.
Based on our recorded oral tradition, the three Hungwe brothers Mbeve, Vambe and Chiendamawaya left Gonaramutsinzi and travelled to Tete. Mbeve and Vambe then left Tete for Inhambane leaving Chiyendamawaya who is believed to have gone back to the Zambezi valley. The fate of Chiendamawaya or that of his descendants is rather unknown. The Chikunda dimension probably gives the closest picture of what could have happened. Chiendamawaya most likely fathered Chiwufumo and his people became known as vaTande (people from Dande) and maintained their bird totem, referred to locally as Malunga. There is obviously a possibility that Chiendawaya and his people were enslaved by the Portuguese or co-existed peacefully with the Portuguese. Chiwufumo became quite a powerful chief in the Tete area and his fame and fortune even attracted an Indian woman with whom he father Kanyemba.
Kanyemba was brought up by his paternal Tande relatives of the Malunga (Marunga) totem. Although raised as an African, he maintained links with his mother's family, several of whom became prominent merchants in the Zumbo region. They provided him with guns and ammunition which enabled him to prosper from ivory and slave trade and had created a powerful military outpost by the 1860s.
Kanyemba’s ties to the Goan community upset his Tande kin. At the time of his father's death, they demanded that he renounce his Portuguese name and return to the fold, he refused and
was passed over as a successor and cast out of Tande territory along with his followers. As typical of all Chikunda warloads, it is highly likely that Kanyemba’s followers were not necessarily of the Malunga totem though the norm among the Chikunda was to adopt either the leader’s totem and if he did not have one, that of the people they conquered.
The Chikunda were expert hunters and warriors. They are credited with invention a muzzle-loading gun known as “gogodela” and the same technology reappears in Hungwe history and now referred to as “mugigwa”.
Today, Chikunda identity has been preserved only in remote areas of the Zambezi valley where descendents of Kanyemba continue to exercise chiefly authority in the Kanyemba area.
Thank you boss for...so ndokwatakabva isu ana marunga
DeleteTisu anhu echo ana Marunga , Hangaiwa.
Deleteana Marunga vechikadzi vanonzii nhai
ReplyDeleteManyoni
DeleteVakadzi ndivanaZenda
DeleteWow. Thank you for that history
ReplyDeleteHaha �� after this insight detail am proud of being Marunga though am still confused if Marunga is Hungwe bird or hangaiwa
ReplyDeleteMalunga is Hangaiwa
DeleteMarunga, is hangaiwa bird.. I'm proudly one
ReplyDeleteProudly to be malunga ana muda vanhu hero matandera vakarunga hari dzehwahwa
ReplyDeleteNdipapo ana marunga👏👏👏👏👏
ReplyDeleteProudly to be Marunga also ndodada nerudzi rwangu
ReplyDeleteProudly Marunga
ReplyDeleteVery rich I’m a proud descendant of Kanyemba and my confusion of the hungwe/nyoni/ malunga has been cleared
ReplyDeleteIs marunga hangaiwa or hungwe
ReplyDeleteI am proud to be marunga
ReplyDeleteam marunga futi, am happy to know that there Marunga's out there
ReplyDeleteLunga neMalunga zvinhu zvimwe chete here
ReplyDeleteProud to be Marunga ndanzwisisawo ini coz my father told me we originally we from Mozambique hondo idzodzo landed us in Zimbabwe. So Hungwe kana kuti Marunga shiri ishiri vanhuwee
ReplyDeleteNdiri Marunga hangaiwa.ndichbva nepa Tete Mozambique.Zita rangu ndichinzi Richard Kambanje,ndiri kuda kufambidzana nehama dzangu number dzangu dzinoti 0714163095 dzepa whats up
DeleteMarunga is my totem and we were told that it originated from Mozambique and strongly linked to the portuguese and Marunga is Hangaiwa ndochidawo chedu
ReplyDeleteCan sm1 plz clear this confusion of the hungwe- hanga totem debate...I'd it one and the same thing or these are 2 totally different totems
ReplyDeleteThese are 2 different totems, people confuse them because both are birds. But shiri dzine ma type akasiyana.
DeleteMy Father was from Mozambique we are also Marunga, we were told our totem is Shiri inonzi Hanga not hangiwa Hanga is almost like Hulu but it's found mumasango it a very Rera species to find.
ReplyDeleteIniwo ndakakura amai vachiti mutupo marunga hangaiwa originated from Mozambique, dambudziko vakasiyana na dady kare , ndazouyawo kuhama ndakaona vana chete, they are saying tinoera hungwe I'm confused, but detembo racho rakafanana here ,
ReplyDeleteIni ndir Takudzwa marunga ndichibva pa mozw
ReplyDeleteProudly Marunga ndoera hangaiwa from Songo Mozambican origin, Zimbabwean by birth
ReplyDeleteIam happy to know hungwe,hangaiwa and hanga are,the same,all are birds
ReplyDeleteMarunga,Shiri chena,Vaera denga,moroi vanhu vakuru,ini I'm a Lunga, please those who have knowledge help,are the Marunga vaHungwe or Hanga here
ReplyDeleteMarunga is hangaiwa, the pigeon, tisu vacho. If you follow the narrations well they all originated from the same area naana Hungwe. But because of the splits and turf wars, the younger of the 3 brothers came back to the Zambezi area as Marunga. Our Marunga is the same as ana Hungwe. I am in Norton but tinobva kuKanyemba kwa Chief Chapoto. My contacts 0772348245 and whatsapp 0783117629. The only challenge is our forefathers did not share the history quite well down the line. Some changed surnames to avoid the tribal purges that were happening.
ReplyDeleteThanks for such detailed insight. Ini ndiri Albert Mtizwa of the Marunga tribe. Zvinofadza kuona vamwe vana Marunga vakafanana neni. It would be a good idea if we can form our own whatsap grp
ReplyDeleteMarunga and Hungwe is the same totem. Kudetemba kwakafanana. Vanhu vachibva Guruuswa vaive one group but nekuwanda nekurwiswa vamwe vaichinja mutupo kuti vasaurayiwa. Isu tiriBuhera vaera Hungwe paMutiusinazita. Kutori naMambo ikoko. I am proud to be a Hungwe varidzi veNyika.
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