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“Kuziva ambuya huudzwa.”

In English

All you know you were taught.

When people say it

  • Leonard Dembo and Barura Express named their 1987 sungura album after it, spelled Kuziva Mbuya Huudzwa. The title track opens the record. Bandcamp, Global Press Music
  • A young man in Glasgow was asked about his totem at a wedding and answered correctly. His uncle, who had explained it to him years before, said it to the table.

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