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Ng'ombe zaya

Ng'ombe zaya (His cattle)

  • Authors: Kampala Mware and Chewa boys , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Chewa , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Kotakota f-mw
  • Language: Nyanja/Chewa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/159989 , vital:40364 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR096-02
  • Description: The listeners answer 'Tilitonsi' "We are together". There was once a man who had some cows and he went to herd them out in the bush. When he felt hungry he went to a certain tree to cook a few grains of maize to eat. When he had eaten all he had cooked, he looked up and found his cows had disappeared. He called his son and told him the cattle had gone. "Bring me an arrow" he said, and then he sang this magic song "Ng'ombe dzaya" so they were able to find the animals again and took them back to the village. Nthano story song.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Nabutema Fulinda mulilo

  • Authors: Kaniamba, Anrosi , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
  • Date: 1957-06-22
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Chipepo f-za
  • Language: Tonga (Zambia)
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/231898 , vital:49938 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT450-L71 , Research no. L2D5
  • Description: Indigenous folk love song with singing accompanied by a gourd-resonated kalumbo bow.
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  • Date Issued: 1957-06-22

Kayuni Tolo wakawona kwenda nzira (Have you seen the bird Tolo when it goes on its way)

  • Authors: Group of Tonga men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Folk songs, Tonga (Zambezi) , Music--Zambia , Africa Zambia Gwembe f-za
  • Language: Tonga
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/138234 , vital:37613 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR042-11
  • Description: The owner of the new canoe, whose name was Kayuni Tolo, was standing by while this song was sung. This Kayuni Tolo is a bird, they said, which comes out in the evening. A bigger bird od similar variety is called "Kariorio". It has not been identified, but may possibly be either the night jar or the owl of which there are considerable numbers in the valley. Canoe launching song (Bgwato-canoe).
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  • Date Issued: 1957

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Dimakatso

Yes- Suh

Oho, Pelo ea Jesu

Theko Makhaola

Otho Pelo ea Jesu

Theko Makhaola

Ngoma

Mashairi Song Poems

Oho Pelo ea Jesu

Wathi wa mwita mwendwa

Kroonstad

Oye iyae tulekelonji patuwela lelo nkhondo

Kalombo, we musho, kowile taula bwela

Bayama

a M'nyumba mopanda mwana

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