My name is Zubah Gaweh from Borkeza.
The thing I want to tell you
Here in Borkeza We have three quarters
The school building here
here in Borkeza,
that is Yarkpawalo Zaza school building
Kokulo Nazbh was the head for the people
who built the road.
Nazbh was from Borkeza
The Mandingo people came here
to buy Kola nuts.
They are strangers to us.
[Asking Interviewer: Should I stop it? Or should I keep going?]
As I said there are three quarters here in Borkeza
Kokulo Nazbh was the head for the people who built the road.
They are the ones that paved the road from here
to the junction.
[Other person: Which road did they pave?]
They paved the road from Borkeza to the junction
In Loma days, they would carry him (Kokula)
on a palanquin to Voinjama and Zorzor.
The fourth president used to come here to Borkeza
they would carry him on their heads to the riverside.
There was another manager here
he was a Kpelle man
Kama was his name.
That manager for them
was from Woizu, he was a Kpelle man.
The time they were building the road,
the road to Lofa
He was the manager
>From Bokeza to Lofa.
When they built the road,
they had no shovel
they had no axe,
only cutlass and stick.
They used to be poking with the stick
and taking the mud.
The time they were building the road
from Wakezu to Zigda
no pail, no rubber, they would just fire it good
they would pack the mud down.
They would take the mud
And use that mud to build the road
The manager for that road,
they used to call him Bubille
Bubille, he came to the river
to say no more palanquin,
he told them just fix the road.
Then a new company came
the company was called Rayman
to build the road
from Zorzor to Voinjama.
They had a machine, the CAT
they used it to make the road
They used to be passing and see people
carrying something on their heads and say stop it.
Rayman said that if someone does this
they’re not responsible for that.
It is not good to use palanquin.
That is why the company carried reports
to Prince Tawbar
and he says they should put a stop it.
At that time teachers,
their wives,
all would go in the palanquin.
The manager used to come
and tell them
“carry me to Voinjama.”
So they would pass
by the bush road.
At that time they
didn't have flashlights.
They would use the bush light,
they would cut bamboo
and light it
to use that one as a light.
To get to Bunwen would take 8 hours
>From Zigida to Bunwen is eight hours.
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