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African Hoopoe: Harbinger of Friends
There is a most ridiculous looking little fellow, who looks like as if he is wearing a Native American headdress on his head. This is the ngomfi, the African hoopoe, the bird that our people believe is a symbol of a loyal friend or a good visitor. It is said that if you hear this bird sounding off in the bush, saying, “hoop-hoop, hoophoop, hoop-hoop,” it means that you’re going to have an important visitor who will bring much prosperity to the family. This bird’s wing and tail feathers are black and white; night and day, darkness and light, pleasure and pain. So, if you see this bird, it is believed that you will have a visitor or a friend coming to you, who will stand by you, by night and by day, through suffering and through joy. The bird’s general colour is like the colour of beer, corn beer, which is why this bird is associated with celebration, and with drinking and eating.
Sunset over Johannesburg - 18 October 2007 (Unedited)
To think: this was the last sunset Lucky Dube saw before those gangsters took his life about an hour or so after I snapped this.
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I daresay I'm not alone in missing your wonderful lunacy. Celebrating your birthday (which was yesterday) exactly a year ago today.
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Better with B l a c k M a g i c
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