- Title
- Njinga yalowa (Njinga is dead)
- Creator
- M. S. Ngomwa and six Mang'anja boys
- Creator
- Hugh Tracey
- Subject
- Folk music--Africa
- Subject
- Field recordings
- Subject
- Songs, Nyanja
- Subject
- Nyanja (African people)
- Subject
- Folk music
- Subject
- Africa Malawi Port Herald f-mw
- Date Issued
- 1958
- Date
- 1958
- Type
- sound recordings
- Type
- field recordings
- Type
- sound recording-musical
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/158131
- Identifier
- vital:40151
- Identifier
- International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
- Identifier
- TR093-10
- Description
- Njinga was a certain man who had a generous wife. When he died his widow married again and had much trouble with the second husband. So thinking of Njinga she used to sing in her sorrow. "Njinga is dead alas." It is notable that the words of many African songs are only loosely associated with the ceremony in hand. There may have been some close local association at one time which has now escaped their memory and tradition has taken over. "Njinga is dead. Njinga is dead. Alas ee. Mother help me. Njinga is dead. Funeral song (during the burial ceremony). Tin used as drums.
- Format
- mp3
- Format
- 7" Reel
- Format
- 96000Hz 24Bit Stereo
- Format
- Studer B67 Recorder
- Format
- Sound Forge V.6
- Format
- 00:02:38
- Publisher
- International Library of African Music
- Language
- Nyanja/Mang'anja
- 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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