{"id":1765,"date":"2012-09-03T13:17:01","date_gmt":"2012-09-03T13:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/php7.innershed.com:10000\/virtual-server\/link.cgi\/212.71.245.84\/http:\/\/www.connectafrica\/?p=1765"},"modified":"2012-10-28T10:16:45","modified_gmt":"2012-10-28T10:16:45","slug":"a-clip-of-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.connectafrica.net\/?p=1765","title":{"rendered":"A Clip of Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the dancing group who arrived at the Palace with drums and spears to collect Senior Chief Shakumbila\u00a0who was all dressed in black with a headdress. \u00a0They then escorted him to this field nearby where the crowds were gathering and waiting.<\/p>\n<p>This was the start of the annual <a title=\"Sharing Culture\" href=\"http:\/\/www.connectafrica.net\/?p=1747\">traditional ceremony called Ikubi-Lya-loongo<\/a> of the Sala people of Zambia. It is a celebration of the strength of the Sala people in conquering other tribes, and took part in the Chiefdom of Shakumbila.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JUT2Xn9rez4\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the dancing group who arrived at the Palace with drums and spears to collect Senior Chief Shakumbila\u00a0who was all dressed in black with a headdress. \u00a0They then escorted him to this field nearby where the crowds were gathering &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.connectafrica.net\/?p=1765\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,28],"tags":[55,73],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.connectafrica.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1765"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.connectafrica.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.connectafrica.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.connectafrica.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.connectafrica.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1765"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.connectafrica.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1767,"href":"https:\/\/www.connectafrica.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1765\/revisions\/1767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.connectafrica.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.connectafrica.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.connectafrica.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}