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Dongo-Dongola (The Clay child)

- Children of Salima Government school, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Children of Salima Government school , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Chewa , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Salima f-mw
  • Language: Nyanja/Chewa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/160143 , vital:40392 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR096-19
  • Description: "A woman who had no child went to the 'doctor' who gave her medicine to make a child out of clay. He warned her that the child should never get wet. When it had grown up it was playing outside one day when the rain came. The mother quickly climbed onto an anthill and called the child 'Dongola. Dongola'! (clay). But the child got wet in the rain and when it came to the mother and she tried to pick it up it just melted away." This story which illustrates the intense desire of every African woman to have a child of her own is found in several parts of Africa. I first heard it in Southern Rhodesia among the Karanga of the Bikita district. In other socities the same instinct is frequently sublimated with pets or adoptions. Story song.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Dudu sithando senfabulo (My happy, lovely girl)

- Nelson Siboza and the Montanas Brothers, Hugh Tracey

Dzombe Rija (My Grasshopper)

- Muzize Mware, Hugh Tracey

E. Gukuku (Pack up)

- M. Runesu Gumbo, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: M. Runesu Gumbo , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Karanga (African people) , Folk songs, Shona , Folk music , Africa Zimbabwe Fort Victoria, Southern Rhodesia f-rh
  • Language: Shona, Karanga
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/154179 , vital:39619 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR080-07
  • Description: This singer makes up all his accompaniments for his humorous songs and sketches which are in the true line of rombe minstrel material. This wife had nothing to do, so she packed up her clothes and left. The people there did not like her. (Wife) "Pack up quickly, pack up quick. Is this the reason why you took me from my homw? Why do you give me this sorrow? This tray of my mother's, I will never leave it here. This that I brought with me from my home." (Man) "Take it away! Do you think I cannot get another wife?" (Wife) "Your mother gave you a dog's heart to eat! Your mother! Had I known all this I would never have come." (Mother-in-law) "Leave her, let her go! Do you think all women are as bad as her?" (Man) "You, mother, you gave me bad advice." Humorous song.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Ede Amalume (Oh, Uncle! Six speeder)

- Small girls under 14 years, Hugh Tracey

Ede! Ede!

- Young Chewa boys and girls, Hugh Tracey

Elo-e mokwata-e (Hullo, marry)

- Losani Malewa, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Losani Malewa , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Chewa , Lomwe (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Mkanda f-mw
  • Language: Lomwe
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/160670 , vital:40496 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR098-12
  • Description: "All right! let him go and get himself married, he is far too young but let him try. He will come howling home again." "Hullo, marry! Let him go and marry. And he will come back howling." The Tangara bowed lute had one string. It was tuned by means of a tuning peg and a straining loop of string for more a accurate pitch. From straining string to bridge was 13 inches and the lute itself was two and a half inches overall. The resonating body was five and half inches tall gourd with a hole pierced in one side. Self delectative song with one-stringed stressed lute Thangara.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Elube (Elube the beautiful girl)

- S. R. Chitalo and De Ndirande Pitch Crooners, Hugh Tracey

Erythrina caffra

- Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)

Erythrina caffra

- Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)

Erythrina caffra

- Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)

Erythrina caffra

- Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)

Erythrina caffra - kaffirboom

- Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)

Erythrina caffra - Kaffirboom

- Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)

Erythrina caffra - Kaffirboom

- Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)

Famba mpore usadngana mumbuyo (Go over carefully, do not look behind you)

- Zuake Gumbo, Hugh Tracey

Fedina (Name of a man)

- Jason Kafunda and Chewa boys, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Jason Kafunda and Chewa boys , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Nyanja , Songs, Chewa , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Mwadzama, Kotakota, Central Nyasaland f-mw
  • Language: Nyanja, Chewa, Chichewa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153990 , vital:39551 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR079-04
  • Description: "Fedina and John went to Salisbury. On their way John killed Fedina to get hold of his cloth which was better than his own. From Fedina's blood sprang a bird which sang a song telling of Fedina's death. So John was killed because of what he did, and the bird disappeared into the ground as the blood had done." The bird in circumstances such as this is constantly featured as a form of conscience or sense of guilt which brings the malefactor to justice. The blood of his friend brings the murderer to his end. "Fedina. Fedina is dead. He was dead because of a cloth."
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Ficus sansibarica - Wild Fig

- Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)

Fishes of the families Tetrarogidae, Caracanthidae and Synanciidae from the Western Indian Ocean with further notes on Scorpaenid fishes

- Smith, J.L.B. (James Leonard Brierley), 1897-1968

  • Authors: Smith, J.L.B. (James Leonard Brierley), 1897-1968
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Scorpionfishes -- Indian Ocean , Stonefishes -- Indian Ocean , Scorpaeniformes -- Indian Ocean
  • Language: English
  • Type: Text
  • Identifier: vital:14974 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1018773 , Ichthyological Bulletin; No. 12
  • Description: Fishes of the Families Tetrarogidae, Caracanthidae and Synanciidae, from the Western Indian Ocean with furthser notes on Scorpaenid fishes - The present work follows the similar regional faunal revision of the family Scorpaenidae of the W. Indian Ocean (Smith, Ich.Bulls. 4 & 5, 1957, 49-88). The Scorpaenoid fishes of that area are provisionally divided into four families as defined there (loc. cit. p 49). , Rhodes University Libraries (Digitisation)
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Fisi ndi nkhwazi (The hyena and the fish eagle)

- Mfundo Phiri, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Mfundo Phiri , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Namira f-mw
  • Language: Nyanja/Mang'anja
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/157972 , vital:40135 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR093-06
  • Description: A hyena and a fish eagle promised to have a competition to race to Salisbury. Nkhwazi said, "I will keep on flying all the way", and Afisi said, "I will keep running along the road". Now the hyena died before he reached Salisbury and the fish eagle said, "There you are! you cannot compete with me now you are dead." So at Shangara where hyena died the fish eagle was clearly the winner. So hyena having died the fish eagle decided to go back home and report to his friends. Shangara is a small border post a few miles north of the Zambezi river on the main road from the valley up into Southern Rhodesia. Nthano story with song and Bangwe board zither.
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  • Date Issued: 1958
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