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Projects and activities

Action Plan for the Safeguarding of the Vimbuza Healing Dance

  • Project budget: $ 90,834.00
  • Source:
    • Japan Funds-in-Trust (553MLW4000)
  • Dates of implementation:
    • 01/11/2006 - 01/12/2009

Benefitting country(ies): Malawi

Overview:

Popular among the Tumbuka people, the Vimbuza is practised by renowned traditional healers in a special ritual. Patients slowly enter trance, while the audience performs songs to call helping spirits. Vimbuza is a useful complement to other forms of medical treatment. The safeguarding project seeks to: * encourage the transmission of skills and knowledge to younger generations, and * raise awareness about the importance of safeguarding the Vimbuza as part of traditional health practices. The action plan includes: * legal protections and training Vimbuza healers on intellectual property rights; * creating an inventory based on field research in close cooperation with the practicing community; * organizing dance festivals, thematic workshops and discussion panels broadcast on radio and television; * developing educational programmes for young museum visitors of Mzuzu Regional Museum; and * distributing educational leaflets in the Chitumbuka language.

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