Ponderings of the Man from Mpofana...

Because sometimes what the masses want isn't always what's best for all. About toxic people who want to get reactions out of you.  About loose-fitting racial categories. You're either black, white (incl. Fareast Asians & Arabs), Indian/south Asian, Australasian, Amerindian or a mixture of any of those groups. We have not discovered green & purple aliens yet.  In the modern world, a black man can't afford to be just a hut-dwelling, spear-throwing, hunter/fisher/farmer. We need to know modern technologies & trends to prevent ourselves from going extinct no matter if we deliberately choose to be  hut-dwelling, spear-throwing, hunter/fisher/farmers.

Sometimes knowing history to certain extents can be burdensome. It is so much easier to just not know & let The Universe fix things. But since modern & recent history from the 1500s onwards is so well recorded often by people who had first-hand experience of the events they wrote, it's not easy to choose ignorance when everyone is so well aware of each other's history. This then leaves us with the dilemma of letting the past go only for it to continue haunting us or do something about past injustices. Doing something about past injustices can be chaotic & full of awkwardness so we always need to apply a bit of tact & "soft-handedness" to ensure that we don't alienate the present world we live in trying to relive & correct the past. Below are a few recurring topics in African history that many have probably not fully found peace with & I feel that peaceful justice is better than violent justice provided that peaceful justice deals with the p...

List of Ngoni / Nguni nations : • Bhaca • Hlubi • Mpondo • Ndebele (northern Ndebele in Mthwakazi & southern Ndebele in Gauteng, South Africa) • Ngoni / Jere / Jele (mainly in Malawi, northern Mozambique, southern Tanzania, Zambia) • Nhlangwini    • Shangaan  • Swazi  • Tembu • Xhosa • Zizi • Zulu Altogether, twelve (12) "Nguni" groups are known to exist. From my knowledge in any case.  Bhaca, Hlubi, Nhlangwini, Swazi & Zizi are the Mbo Entity . The Mbo Entity often declassifies itself from the Nguni group. Nhlangwini & Swazi are under a Dlamini dynasty while the Hlubi & Zizi are also Dlamini tribes. Ngoni & Shangaan are of Ndwandwe origin (a tribe assimilated by the Zulu Empire). Bhaca, Hlubi, Ndebele, Nhlangwini, Shangaan, Zizi & some Mpondo are often classified as Zulu. While it's unknown whether Mpondo & Xhosa qualify as Nguni, they are often grouped as Nguni. Using family groups to classify :  • Mbo • Mpo...

Etymology Abathwa -> Abathuwa (Abathowa?, Abathiwa?) "-wa" prefix in Nguni languages often meaning a person or thing which something is being done to. "Wa-" means belonging to something in various African languages. Base word is thu/tu/tho/thi.  U thu ngu is a sheaf/bush from a harvest.  Ubu thi na state of being.  Uku thi to say or do.  Uku tu sa is to praise.  Uku thu ka (pronounced thù ) to be frightened or shocked.  U thu ku is a hunch or instinct.  Uku thu ka (pronounced thü ) to insult.  I tho ngo  I tho nsi  Ubu tho ngo to feel sleepy. Ukufuna uku lala .  Uku ti nyela to sting. Thu/Tu/Thi seems to mean a state of being perhaps agriculture/farming or language .   Etymology of the Si/Nsi prefix & suffix. • Nsimbi ~ Something dug & collected. Something when processed (by man) causes harm? • Si- /Isi- ~ we / something belonging to a certain group of people. • Ithonsi ~ something when gathered becoming som...