31 MAR 2023 · PAULINE (DRC)
This Story is about my grandfather in my country DRC, Democratic Republic of Congo.
Every year, my grandfather would come visit us in the city of Kinshasa from the village of Equator, sometimes by airplane or boat.
Our parents made us take a shower every afternoon, before we had dinner. If not, you could not eat dinner. Young people (my brother and I) didn't like to take showers. We preferred to sleep hungry, than to take showers. Our parents forced us to take showers and sometimes hit us. When grandfather came to the village to see us, he said to our parents that it was not necessary to hit them.
My grandfather knew how to send us to go take showers. He said if you want to come to listen to my story you need to take showers and eat. In the afternoon, he made sounds like the Tam-tam drum with his mouth (######). It was the sign for us to know it was story time.
All of us ran to take showers and have dinner. Afterwards, we stayed together with our grandfather to listen to him.
When grandfather returned to the village our parents said, “if you guys refuse to take showers, I will let grandfather know about it.” He was one way our parents got us to take showers and eat well.
(Then tell the story in Lingala)
Histoire oyo ezali ya koko na ngai ya mobali esalami na mboka (RDC) République Démocratique du Congo.
Mbula nioson koko na ngai ya mobali ayaka na capital Kinshasa kotala biso. Ewutaka Mbandaka na equateur na avion to na Masuwa.
Pokwa nioson baboti balobaka : avant ko liyia ebongi muana nioson asukola.
Ngai na bandeko na ngai tozalaki kolinga kosokola te na pokwa. Soki baboti balobi avant kolia na pokwa ebongi osukola. Kasi ngai na bandeko na ngai tozalaki kolinga te. Malamu kutu to lala nzala ke tosukola.
Baboti bazalaki kobeta biso kaka po to sukola pe to liyia.
Tango koko ya mobali aye kotala biso, anomi ndenge baboti bazali kobeta biso pona kosukola pe kolia. Koko ya mobali alobi na baboti : botika bango. Ngai na kosunga bino po bayeba kosukola pe kolia na pokwa.
Na pokwa koko alobi na biso: oyo alingi apusana pembeni na ngai ayoka histoire na pokwa esengeli kosukola pe aliyia.
Soki pokwa okoki abandi kobeta mbunda kasi mbunda ya munoko.
Tamtam.
Soki biso na pokwa toyoki mbunda wana ebandi wana muana nioson mbangu koluka kosokola pe kolia. Sima toye koyoka histoire biso nioson pene na ye elongo.
Soki azongi Mboka (village), baboti balobi na biso oyo akoboya kosokola pe kolia tokoyesisa koko ya mobali soki aye. Bongo nde baboti bakomaki kosala po biso tolia pe to sokola.