Mkhwangwa yatena (The axe has cut him)

Title: Mkhwangwa yatena (The axe has cut him)
Creator: Adija Nyankhomo and G. Coffee
Creator: Hugh Tracey
Subject: Folk music--Africa
Subject: Field recordings
Subject: Songs, Nyanja
Subject: Songs, Chewa
Subject: Nyanja (African people)
Subject: Chewa (African people)
Subject: Folk music
Subject: Africa Malawi Kotakota District, Lake Nyasa, Nyasaland f-mw
Date Issued: 1958
Date: 1958
Type: sound recordings
Type: field recordings
Type: sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153933
Identifier: vital:39538
Identifier: International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
Identifier: TR078-13
Description: A husband and wife went to hoe in their garden and the man had his axe with him. When they were there he started to play a game with her, forgetting he had his axe over his shoulder which fell off and cut him. So the woman when she got home quickly began to say that her husband had been cut by his axe in order to avoid people thinking that they had been playing in the garden. So she sang this song:- A! e! a! e!e! Nkhwangwa yatera Nkhwangwangwa letena mwendo." "A-eee. The axe has cut my husband, my husband, the axe has cut him in the leg." Story song.
Format: mp3
Format: 7" Reel
Format: 96000Hz 24Bit Stereo
Format: Studer B67 Recorder
Format: Sound Forge V.6
Format: 00:04:04
Publisher: International Library of African Music
Language: Nyanja, Chewa, Chichewa
Rights: International Library of African Music
Rights: Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons "Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike" License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/)

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