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Mpenzi Wanga Wanitupa

Nkurukumbi

O Horombo

O Horombo

  • Authors: Mireiye Sanganga with Chaga men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Chaga (African people) , Songs, Gogo , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Marangu f-tz
  • Language: Gogo
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/174345 , vital:42469 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR155-12
  • Description: Chief Horombo was the head chief of this section of the Chaga people. The Chaga living on the Southern slopes of Kilimanjaro were so divided amongst themselves that they developed five or six district dialects through isolation. The various streams cascading down the mountain from the snow caps acted as boundaries between the warring clans, each occupying a separate ridgr from top to bottom. Loyality song with sticks.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Omugere

Omugore

Omugore

Simba lumi

Simba lumi

  • Authors: Sanyenke Gethula with Sukuma men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Nyamwezi (African people) , Sukuma (African people) , Folk songs, Sukuma , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Kisesa f-tz
  • Language: Nyamwezi
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/173397 , vital:42366 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR150-14
  • Description: "The lion has spots like a leopard. He is a brave fighter." Tribal fighting is still within living memory of the Sukuma and the old songs can still be heard occasionally in the country.Their neighbours still raid them for their cattle and have to be fought off. Why the lion should have spots like a leopard is not clear, except that a young lion retains for a while the spotted marks with which it is born. Fighting song.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1950

Tilonjela Anthukazi

Tinlenjela anthudazi

Title not specified

Ubaba usevenze fama

  • Authors: Dube, Moses , Tracey, Hugh
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Folk Music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zimbabwe Bulawayo f-rh
  • Language: Ndebele
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/304010 , vital:58397 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Commercial Records, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , TP2282-XYZ5744
  • Description: Indigenous music
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1950

Uthulilwezizwe

Wachonge

Wachonge

  • Authors: Maunda Waliaula with Bukusu men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Bukusu (African people) , Folk music--Kenya , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Kenya Malakasi f-ke
  • Language: Bukusu
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/176518 , vital:42709 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR162-03
  • Description: The song recalls a notable fight between the Bukusa and the Burwa tribes at Wachonge. The Bukusa were the victors. This area of Northern Nyanza was the scene of many tribal fights between the ten or more small tribes which settled there. The song they claimed was sung in a mixture of languages, including Luo and Swahili in a addition to Bukusu. Fighting song, with 2 Litungu 7 string lyres, and 1 Luhingele long inverted bowl (-10.151-).
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1950

Wachonge

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