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Tape insert: 42 E1 EKANDA | EKANDA'S TESTIMONY IN IPILI LANGUAGE
From audio: Side A music and singing, Side B "peacemaking ceremony"
Tok Pisin - Singing
Pogera area Church singing
Pogera - telling his life story
Side A:
The music and singing in "Tok Pisin" is about early missionaries arriving and encounters with the local people in bringing Christianity religion, the gospel and good news of Jesus Christ to the Pogera area. This came life changing experience to a new and modern way of life from the traditional beliefs.
Side B:
Speaker Ekanda shares his life story in Ipili language about attending a peacemaking ceremony relating to how a man, Aralu was killed in a village in the Pogera area called Paiyala and how settlement between the warring tribes was undertaken.
(Steven Gagau, November 2017) |