In a quest to end early Marriages and promote education in Ntchisi District, a number of Chiefs headed by Traditional authority Kasakula have taken responsibility in using the institutions of Gule Wamkulu to enforce school attendants and end child marriages in their areas. Once it is verified that child marriage has taken place, the chiefs […]
Chiefs interrupted a funeral preaching service on Wednesday at Chisemphere group village in T/A Njewa in Lilongwe after prophet Joseph Gama of Ebenezer fellowship Ministry attacked Gulewamkulu belief as sin. Chiefs felt that the prophet went off track and ordered the gathering to stand up and carry the remains to the resting place for burial […]
Tempers flared on Friday in Lilongwe when Chewa Heritage Foundation (CHEFO) officials told a news conference which was also attended by the Muslim Association of Malawi (MAM) and the Malawi Police Service that the people causing havoc while disguising themselves as Gulewamkulu, do not belong to them. Gulewamkulu has been causing problem in Lilongwe’s Area 36, Kaphiri, […]
Malawi Police in Kasungu have arrested three Chewa tribe’s secret cult of gule wamkulu on allegations that they arrested a 16 year old girl and sexually abused her. Police spokesperson in Kasungu Edna Mzikwitsa alleged parents of the girl had gone to gulewamkulu elders to help them trace the girl who had gone out on […]
A row has erupted in Kasungu between the CCAP Church and Traditional leaders with Senior Chief Lukwa and Chief Mwase accusing churches in Kasungu of trying to suppress the premier Chewa dance Gulewamkulu during installation and elevation of chiefs who are Christians. But moderator for the Nkhoma Synod of the Church of Central Africa Presbytery […]
Deputy Minister of Climate Change and Environment Geofrey Kamanya has irked some chiefs from his Lilongwe Msozi South constituency. One of the chiefs who spoke to Nyasa Times said the deputy minister has been abusing the Gule Wamkulu by turning them into his bodyguards. The chiefs, who asked for his name to be shielded for […]
The Mtakataka first grade magistrate’s court has sentenced Gulewankulu (the big dance) Debsen Tcheni to three years imprisonment with hard labor for hacking a 12 year-old boy with a panga knife or machete. Gule Wamkulu is both a secret cult and ritual dance practiced among the Chewa people. According a story monitored on Radio Islam’s Wednesday […]