Learn Shona

Service Description

Its been more than 500 years since your ancestral parents we dragged in the middle of the night, out of the comfort of their beds. Encaged in dungeons, then boarded on to one of the death ships that supported the cruelty of the Trans Atlantic Slave Routes. They arrived in a foreign land, Their names stripped, Their language forbidden, any form of retaliation was met with the crack of a whip. Your ancestral mother was raped and bred like cattle, her children where sold off to various plantations to ensure that the knowledge of Who They Were, Where They Had Come From and The Language They Spoke, was lost. The wind is changing, The spirits are talking, With the ability to analyse DNA we can now help The Stolen Children of Africa recover a knowledge which was once believed to be lost. Who's The Daddy is passionate about helping you rediscover Who You Really Are and Where You Really Came From. Our aim is to guide you back to the land your forefathers left behind. Retake back your heritage and reclaim the land, that in no lesser words, rightfully belongs to you. If you have taken one of our Patri or Matri Clan DNA tests, you have already been empowered with the knowledge of which Tribe your ancestors came from. The natural next step is to recover the lost language which they once took away from you. With that said, I introduce you to the man that can for the stolen children of the Shona Tribe. My name is Polite Mabhena, a proud Zimbabwean and proud African at large. I will be responsible for teaching you the Shona language, a part of the Bantu languages which is a family of the many languages spoken by the people in the Southern half of Africa. The Shona people form the majority tribe in Zimbabwe, forming about 70% of the population. It is estimated that there are around 9 million people from this ethnic group around the world, including from neighbouring countries such as Botswana, Mozambique, Zambia and South Africa. Shona comprises of the Korekore, Zezuru, Manyika, Ndau and Karanga dialects. My job is to re-install the language which was deleted from your biological hard drive, many generations ago. We have 3 tiers, Basic, Intermediate and Advanced. In each tier I will have 7 lectures with you live on zoom, each lecture will be 30 minutes long. In these lectures I will teach you how to read and pronounce the common Shona words for example greetings, numbers, colours, directions, common foods, common phrases etc. Y'all Ready?