The ceremony will be held in Mbare, Chitungwiza, a town 30km south from Harare.

例の精霊を呼ぶ儀式が開催されるのはハラレから30km南にあるChitungwizaという町のムバレ。



Mbare is a residence area where Black people had to live during racist white minority running government. Still now, all people living in Mbare are black and most of them are low income. This area is not very organized and crowded with small houses.

ムバレ(ゲトーともいう)は黒人居住地区の意味で白人差別政権が無くなった今も主に低所得層が生活している。ムバレ内はもちろん観光客なんていやしない、ゴチャゴチャしていて、人がやたらと多いしかなり生活臭が強い。




Local Mbira players live in this area, and Japanese Mbira player, Sumi lives together with them. I cannot imagine how tiring for him to live in this area. I'm really respect him.


この場所にンビラ弾きの名人が住んでいる。そして宿で会った日本人ンビラ奏者のスミさんもここで一緒に生活しながら日々鍛錬しているそうだ。いるだけで疲れそうな場所なのに本当お疲れ様ですといった感じ。




I moved out from the guest house in Harare 5 days before the ceremony starts.
When I got there, Sumi's friends from Japan had already come. There were 4 Japanese started staying at this home.
In this local family, they had about 16 people, as long as I saw live in the same house, so 20 of us lived together.

自分はハラレの宿でダラダラするのも何なのでファンクションの5日前くらいからムバレ入りした。スミさんの友人夫妻2人チーさんとオーさんも来ていて日本人は4人、平屋のそこまで大きくない家に20名近くがしばらく生活を共にする事となった。



I have stayed at local family of African for many times but this was the first time for long term.
I was a bit nervous at the beginning because this residence area was in Mbare. However, it was fun to live and good experience to see the life of people closely.

アフリカで民泊は度々して来ているが、同じ場所で1週間も滞在するのは初めて。しかもムバレという黒人居住地区だった場所。正直、最初はどうなるもんかと思っていたが、なかなか楽しい日々となった。