{"id":111499,"date":"2022-09-13T12:42:56","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T10:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/?p=111499"},"modified":"2022-09-13T12:47:51","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T10:47:51","slug":"amaliya-kabila-vimbuzas-from-mzimba-south","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/amaliya-kabila-vimbuzas-from-mzimba-south\/","title":{"rendered":"Amaliya Kabila demonstrates Vimbuza\u2019s hardcore power"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Viyezgo. Vimbuza from Mzimba South<\/em>, second album from the “Sacral Grooves 1000HZ” series, is a recording of the high priestess with her local drumming group performing their hardcore version of the Vimbuza\u2019s ritual.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

As a vimbuza doctor from Endindeni village, Amaliya Kabila is much admired amongst the Tumbuka community in Northern Malawi. The release of Viyezgo. Vimbuza from Mzimba South <\/em>is sure to extend her reach beyond, this time, as an accomplished musician. She is considered one of the leading figures in the region. Skilled in her craft, she is thought to be capable of healing people suffering from spirit possessions, or attacked by witchcraft, identifying witches, finding kidnapped children, stolen cattle and missing people with the help of spirits she invokes through Vimbuza<\/a> ceremonies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The healing ceremony, encompassed into the wider Ngoma traditions, is practised amongst the Tumbuka to help people, mostly women, afflicted by mental illness. Originally developed to overcome traumatic experiences of oppression, it was heavily vilified during British colonisation and forbidden by Christian missionaries. Still today, even after being inscribed on UNESCO\u2019s Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2008, Vimbuza is still condemned by most Chritian churches and shunned by modern medicine. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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