The Sukuma Legacy Project is coordinated by a dedicated team, committed to preserve and spread the rich heritage of Sukuma language and culture. Our members are as follows:

Fr. Zakaria Kashinje, OSA, is an Augustinian Priest from Ndoleleji Parish, who is currently working in the Archdiocese of Dar -es- Salaam, Tanzania.

Fr. Joseph G. Healey, MM, is an American Maryknoll Missionary Priest who lives in Nairobi, Kenya. He facilitates SCC Workshops and animates SCCs in Eastern Africa. He is a member of the AMECEA Small Christian Communities (SCCs) Training Team. He is an ordinary member of the St. Kizito Small Christian Community in the Waruku Section of St. Austin’s Parish in Nairobi Archdiocese.

Fr. Charles Wilbert Bundu, is a Diocesan Priest from Mwamapalala Parish, who is currently working as Chaplain at St. Augustine University of Tanzania, (SAUT) in Mwanza.

Cephas Yao Agbemenu is a Lecturer in the Department of Fine Art in Kenyatta University, Nairobi. He specialised in graphic art and photography.

Eti Dayan, the Founder of Nanetya Foundation (preserving ethnic stories in mother tongues), is part of our yearly brainstorming meeting.

Ndoleleji Research Committee collects the Stories, Proverbs Riddles, Sayings and Songs.

THE MAIN OBJECTIVES OF THE TRADITIONAL LEGACY RESEARCH SOCIETY (TLRS) SHALL BE:

(a). To make research on the people’s legacies, by using: learned individuals, group traditional leaders, theologians, Doctors, professionals, Religious leaders, and so on for strengthening their peace and unity in societies for human developments.

(i). To conduct research meeting on Stories, Proverbs, Sayings, Riddles and Songs enough to relate them to Love that can maintain unity and peace in the societies.

(ii). To conduct research on any aspect of human social life.

(iii). To discover traditional values which enable human beings to live peacefully by respecting one another.

(iv). To use Proverbs, Sayings, Riddles, Stories, and Songs for reminding people of their responsibility to use their strengths enough work hard for their developments.

(v). To use Proverbs, Sayings, Riddles, Stories, and Songs for enabling human beings to get their basic needs such as food, shelter and cloths.

(vi). In order to enable human beings get their basic needs, members will use their skills for increasing knowledge on their natural resources enough to utilize them for their development as well as that of nation.

(vii). To give seminars to those in need, on awareness about working as a team in developing human beings, as what the wise said, ‘unity is strength, division is weakness.’ their fellow human beings.

(viii). Members will utilize their strengths, together with those from other skilled and professional people, who will include friends from within and outside the nation, for increasing awareness to the need on how to use time, and what they have for improving their daily lives.

(ix). Members will encourage participatory ways in combating poverty, and ignorance enough to empower human beings for attaining their developments.

(x). Members will work for promoting peace of the nation for developing human beings as well as their nation.

SUKUMA LEGACY RESEARCH GROUP IN UNION WITH CHRIST ON THE WAY TO GOD

VISION

To use traditional legacies for strengthening faith in Christ within His Church on the way to the heavenly Reign.

Little knowledge on the traditional legacies delays people in discovering wisdom which is found in: Stories, Proverbs, Sayings, Riddles and Songs, which can assist them on their way to God. That is where an inculturation takes place, in which people discover values from their traditions which can strengthen their faith in Christ within His Church on the way to the heavenly Reign.

However, making research on their traditional ways of life helps them enough to discover their legacies and use them for loving God with all their hearts. They can also manage to love their neighbors in God and Him in them, on the way to the Heaven kingdom.

MISSION STATEMENT

A research on traditional culture enables people to use freely their legacies enough to apply the Lord’s New Commandment of Love to their lives, on their way to God.

GENERAL OBJECTIVE

To make research on the people’s legacies for strengthening their faith in Christ within His Church, on the way to God.

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE

To conduct research meeting on Stories, Proverbs, Sayings, Riddles and Songs relating them to the Lord’s New commandment of Love.

OBSERVABLE OBJECTIVE

To see the Stories, Proverbs, Sayings, Riddles and Songs and how they relate to the biblical verses for simplifying its application to their daily lives, within the Church of Christ, on the way to the heavenly Kingdom.

OPERATIVE OBJECTIVE

To collect and preserve data for using in the Sukuma Legacy Project and Website.

MEMBERS OF NDOLELEJI RESEARCH COMMITTEE

FR. ZAKARIA RICHARD KASHINJE, OSA – CHAIRPERON AND PROJECT DIRECTOR.
FR. PASCHAL MAHALAGU – EXECULTIVE DIRECTOR.
JUSTINA LULU DEUS – DEPUTY CHAIRPERSON.
CAT. ALBERT BULUGU SHIJA – SECRETARY.
ROBERT NYOLOBI MAYALA – IS DEPUTY SECRETARY.
JUSTINA YUNGE DEUS – TREASURER.
RICHARD KASHINJE MZEHE – MEMBER.
CAT. RAPHAEL KASHINJE KUYELA – MEMBER.
LEAH KWEJI DEUS – MEMBER.
BONIFACE GITU – MEMBER.
CAT. ROBERT GALISHI – MEMBER.
CAT. EZEKIEL D. JOHN – MEMBER.
FELISTER DANGU – MEMBER.
MARY GENI JOSEPH – MEMBER.
HELENA WANDE RICHARD – MEMBER.
VERONIKA KABULA KASHINJE – MEMBER.