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Khotso (peace)

Klusi Malorato tlaa o bone (Chief Lencoe's horses)

Ko gae, gae, ko gae (At home, home, at home)

Kongwana tshweu wee (Oh, the white cow)

Konyane ga ga bo ke kae (Where is Konyane's home?)

Le kae le watle (Where is the sea)

Le reng oe? (What do you say)

Leboko I

  • Authors: a, b and c. Labims Keebine. d and e. Joseph Modisi Moiloa , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1959
  • Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Dinokana f-sa
  • Language: Tswana/Hurutshe
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/165823 , vital:41285 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0115-06
  • Description: At the time of recording this village was much divided on account of the political questions of the continuity of the Chieftainship. One acting Chief had been deposed and was living in Bechuanaland and another Chief was acting in his place. The speaker, who composed and read the praises of his elder brother, the present acting Chief, had been a teacher in their village for 38 years. Moiloa II was the original Chief after whom the reserve was named, about 1880 (died 1886). Ikalafeng succeeded hs grandfather Moiloa in 1887 and died in 1894. Pogiso II (Abram) the ex-Chief of the Moiloa Reserve, is still alive. Praise songs for a) Chief Moiloa II, b) Chief Ikalafeng, c) Chief Pogiso II, d) Chief Diutloiling wa Sebogodi. e) Chief Michael Bagatsu Moiloa.
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  • Date Issued: 1959

Leboko II

  • Authors: a, b and c. Labims Keebine. d and e. Joseph Modisi Moiloa , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1959
  • Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Dinokana f-sa
  • Language: Tswana/Hurutshe
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/165832 , vital:41286 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0115-07
  • Description: At the time of recording this village was much divided on account of the political questions of the continuity of the Chieftainship. One acting Chief had been deposed and was living in Bechuanaland and another Chief was acting in his place. The speaker, who composed and read the praises of his elder brother, the present acting Chief, had been a teacher in their village for 38 years. Moiloa II was the original Chief after whom the reserve was named, about 1880 (died 1886). Ikalafeng succeeded hs grandfather Moiloa in 1887 and died in 1894. Pogiso II (Abram) the ex-Chief of the Moiloa Reserve, is still alive. Praise songs for a) Chief Moiloa II, b) Chief Ikalafeng, c) Chief Pogiso II, d) Chief Diutloiling wa Sebogodi. e) Chief Michael Bagatsu Moiloa.
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  • Date Issued: 1959

Leboko la ga Kgosi Mpolokang (Praises in honour of Chief Mpolokang)

Lelnane la Rebe le tlhogo (The story of Rebe and the head)

  • Authors: Gwendoline Kaitsane (Young girl aged 11 years) , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1959
  • Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Saulspoort f-sa
  • Language: Tswana/Kgatla
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/166245 , vital:41342 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0117-05
  • Description: There was a certain girl called Rebe, who had a mother who used to leave her children alone in the house. Now everytime she she was left alone, a head use to come and eat up all the food the mother had left for her daughter. One lay Rebe's father caught the head by hiding behind the door. He had an axe and he hit it and the head ran away. Now the rabbit met the head who had thin bits of bark covering its wounds. So the rabbit sang that he could smell the wounds on the head. After that the head was seen no more. Story.
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  • Date Issued: 1959

Lelwa retswang teng resentse (We come from the place where we have killed)

  • Authors: Eight Kwena men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1959
  • Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Kwena (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Botswana Molepolole f-bs
  • Language: Tswana/Kwena
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/162817 , vital:40986 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0109-09
  • Description: "We come from where we have killed. Oh, the greyhead! We-we! We praise our leader. We come from the place where we have killed. Once we killed the people of the Kalahari. We killed them and they killed us." According to the interpreter it appears that initiation songs among the Tswana follow a certin pattern and the same ones are sung by all the Tswana tribes, with local variations. Male initiation song.
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  • Date Issued: 1959

Lesang nca re a baka (Leave the dog alone)

  • Authors: Ntnebolang Molebatsi, 4 men and 4 women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1959
  • Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Disaneng f-sa
  • Language: Tswana/Tlharo
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/164993 , vital:41192 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0111-05
  • Description: "Leave the dog alone, we are praising. We orphans, if collected would fill the Chief's kraal. I didn't lock the door last night and the dog ate up all my fat, all on account of your lovers." The last three lines refer to the fact that two girls were sharing the same room. One left the door open for her lovers to enter, and a dog got in and ate up all the other one's fat. Herdboy's song and step danie, with stamping of feet.
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  • Date Issued: 1959

Letsema la a phota (The group is threshing corn)

Loseka lwa e boka (You should not praise this cow)

  • Authors: Group of Lete men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1959
  • Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Ramoutsa f-sa
  • Language: Tswana/Lete
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/165326 , vital:41233 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0112-05
  • Description: 'You should not praise this cow for you do not know it. It is hornless. It is the cow belonging to nong." 'Nong' is a generic term for any large bird but more specifically means 'Vulture'. This song also is sung when the bride-price is paid. It ends with a Maboko praise and the cries of the women. The praise was for Baitlutli, grand uncle of the present Chief and uncle of Ketshwerebothata, ex-Regent of Ramoutsa. Engagement song.
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  • Date Issued: 1959

Mabalane kgosi ra bokome (Mabalane, the chief in the North)

Maboko (Praises)

Maboko a Dikgomo (Praises for cattle)

Maboko A Ga Kgosi Gaseitsiwe (Praises of Chief Gaseitsiwe)

Maboko a Kgosi (Chief's praises)

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