Tonga Resources

Explore our resources to learn more about the Tonga language, culture, and history.

Basilwizi Trust

Basilwizi Trust is a community development organization, founded in 2002 by the local people of the Zambezi valley, northwestern part of Zimbabwe. The existence of Basilwizi Trust is a demonstration of concern and determination by Zambezi valley communities to demand and restore their dignity taken away from them by the displacement from the Zambezi River banks.

Tonga Online Project

Since its launch in 2001, the Tonga Online Project has focused attention on promoting a Tonga voice over the Internet. The aim is to provide people in the Tonga area of Zimbabwe and across the Zambezi River in Zambia with access to the world’s most advanced communication tools, so that they may represent themselves to the outside world and reflect upon the social, political and economic environment of both the global and local village in which the Tonga live.

The Women Sing at Both Sides of the Zambezi

Explore an archive of life-story-telling established by African women for their sisters, and brothers, near and far. The archive currently contains more than 70 interviews with women in Arts, Culture and Media from Zambia and Zimbabwe.

National African Language Resource Center

The National African Language Resource Center, at Indiana University Bloomington, established in 1999, is a federally funded, non-profit national foreign language center dedicated to the advancement of African language teaching and learning in the United States.

Listen to the Damba Primary School sing “Welcome to Binga”

Source: SoundCloud