Genealogy extract lecture 3

DM; Everyone entered school.
My child, Ndi, he entered the Catholic school,
MS; You say that Ndi was your child?
Ndi that was chosen. Ndi that was chosen.
DM; He was my child.
MS; But I didn’t know.
MS; Ooo I didn’t know.
DM; He was my very first child. With Kolaka.
But then you all don’t know, where were you?
But then you all don’t know, where were you?
Weehee, that was my first child.
Me and Chief Kolaka.
I said when Menandi died, I was with...
I was with (.) child but when he was walking, he was like so à baá mun (gestures with hand) - when he was about so high,
I was pregnant with the one who was also called Menandi.
The other died.26.00
I gave birth again who they named again [Menandi], who is now up there (in Banyo).
MS; That was long ago.
DM; Ooo ho ho hoish.
MS; That’s very good.
Kung came after him
MS; Kung the husband of Mia here? (Mia Pauline now wife of Wuwiya)
Kung I have seen him.
It was when I was small.
()It was when I was small. I was ()
[Then] I understood a bit, just a bit.
It was partial, vague, like so.
DM; That’s how it was.
MS; It was your child that I knew
You were together at Sùàgàwè’s place.

Menandi died
when Kung was crawling, he was in my arms, when Ndi was himself like so (indicates his height).

Ndi was just little.
that Kung

Then I had another that they called Nyùàgà
another that they called Nyùàgà
Then I had another that they called Nyùàgà, who was the same {age as} Nde.
DM; But he was the elder, Ndé came after
Nde who died just now.
Those were my children,
They were five (3)

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