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Ga nna ke tshome (I cannot speak a European language)

- Group of men, Hugh Tracey

Ga re a nwa ka nkgwana pele (There is a pot of beer in front of us)

- Stone Kgaswe and 4 Kgatla men, Hugh Tracey

He ba bua kgethwa baeme (They thrash skins)

- Tweleve Kwena men, Hugh Tracey

He ga re a nnwa ke nKgana (We men have a big pot of beer)

- Rautana Dinake and large group of men, Hugh Tracey

He mmalo kgaka = We want the guinea fowl

- Keelediwe Modise and large group of men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Keelediwe Modise and large group of men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1959
  • Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Ngwaketse (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Botswana Kanye f-bs
  • Language: Tswana/Ngwaketse
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/162578 , vital:40948 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0108-11
  • Description: "We want the guinea fowl. We men have surrounded the guinea fowl at a ruined kraal. We fathers have surrounded the guinea fowl." It seems that guinea fowl are the special prequisite of the grown men. The younger ones are not supposed to eat the guinea fowl. In this song the guinea fowl stand for the young men who were hunting them and were supposed to bring them to the older men. The word "Sotswaneng" means a ruined kraal where a special sort of short spreading thorny plant invades such places. Hunting song
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  • Date Issued: 1959

He mmalo kgaka = We want the guinea fowl

- Keelediwe Modise and large group of men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Keelediwe Modise and large group of men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1959
  • Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Ngwaketse (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Botswana Kanye f-bs
  • Language: Tswana/Ngwaketse
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/162569 , vital:40951 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0108-11
  • Description: "We want the guinea fowl. We men have surrounded the guinea fowl at a ruined kraal. We fathers have surrounded the guinea fowl." It seems that guinea fowl are the special prequisite of the grown men. The younger ones are not supposed to eat the guinea fowl. In this song the guinea fowl stand for the young men who were hunting them and were supposed to bring them to the older men. The word "Sotswaneng" means a ruined kraal where a special sort of short spreading thorny plant invades such places. Hunting song
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  • Date Issued: 1959

He mmalo khaka tshotsome (We have encircled the guinea-fowl)

- Dintsa Marumolo and about 60 young men, Hugh Tracey

He Mmuputsoane (Mmamoshage)

- Rautana Dinake and large group of men and women, Hugh Tracey

He mogoge goga o lere thokolo (Draw, draw us heavy drops of rain)

- Boyalenyana Simamma and large group of women, Hugh Tracey

He rea nyadiwa (We are despised)

- Serakalala Abotseng and group of 35 men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Serakalala Abotseng and group of 35 men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1959
  • Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Ngwaketse (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Botswana Kanye f-bs
  • Language: Tswana/Ngwaketse
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/162591 , vital:40953 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0108-12
  • Description: "We are despised although we are despised. Were are the bullets fired when cattle are captured. Makau wee!" "Makau wee!" is a regimental shout. The official praise is known as Mmoki. Sung when returning from a lion hunt. The following Maboko were spoken in honour of Chief Bathoen II, the present Chief Magogodi Mmolaeatshephe (the man who kills a serpent), spoke the Chief's praises. Hunting song
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  • Date Issued: 1959

Hololo we Bahurutshe Matebeyane (When we saw the Hurutshe approaching, we thought they were Ndebele)

- Daniel Ramokgadi and Sei Lobega, Hugh Tracey

Ishetlhana e Tswerwe ke seokamo

- Dintsa Marumolo and about 60 young men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Dintsa Marumolo and about 60 young men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1959
  • Subjects: Folk songs, Sotho , Folk songs, Tswana , Sotho-Tswana languages , Tswana (African people) , Sotho (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Lesotho Tshidilamolomo f-lo
  • Language: Tswana/Rolong
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/162367 , vital:40924 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0107-01
  • Description: The singers had just come back from initiation school. Here they use floor polish instead of the traditional red ochre with which to stain themselves. Several of them looked like Nilo Hamite men from Kenya and some of their songs also suggested the modality of those Northern tribes coincidence perhaps, but noticable. "The brown cow is held, caught and held prisoner and stands there all day. The other cows are also held fast in the same way. The brown yearling, our father's cow, ruled over nations while held flat." The words are allusive and symbolic. Male initiation song performed while in the veld.
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  • Date Issued: 1959

Ke nare e lona (I am a big Buffalo)

- Group of 20 men, Hugh Tracey

Ke tla tshwarwa (I shall be arrested)

- Boys and girls of Molepolole, Hugh Tracey

Kea, gae kea goseka (I am going home)

- Mokgele Mokgejane and group of 24 Hurutshe men; Praiser: Steps Tolo, Hugh Tracey

Ketekete ('Ketekete' the noise made by a bell)

- Lefu Rajane and a group of men, Hugh Tracey

Kgaka e tswher we ke mutloane Mamonope! (The guinea fowl has been caught by a small dog, Mamonope!)

- About 20 men, Hugh Tracey

Kgatha shoewanene (We have driven the guinea fowl)

- Tshekoeng Mokgosi and 8 women and 4 men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Tshekoeng Mokgosi and 8 women and 4 men , 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/10962/164966 , vital:41189 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0111-02
  • Description: "We men, we have driven the guinea fowl into the ruined, deserted kraal. We have driven it, we have driven it. We did, we drove it to the deserted kraal." This song is now used for threshing. Initiation is no longer practised in this district but the similarity in the wording of this song to the one recorded at Kanye seems to confirm its having been an initiation song originally. It is the general custom among the Tswana people for guinea fowl to be hunted by the younger men and then given to the older men. Threshing song.
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  • Date Issued: 1959

Kgokong (If it dies)

- Mosaila Mokgothu and Hurutshe men, Hugh Tracey

Kgomo e tsaletse nageng thokwana (A grey cow has calved in the veld)

- Mishack Sehuneo, Hugh Tracey

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