Babe kasenankomo (Father has no cattle left)
- Authors: Masitela with 2 boys and 3 girls , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Swazi , Folk music , Africa Ewatini Lobamba, Mbabane f-sq
- Language: Swati
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/152330 , vital:39247 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR068-18
- Description: A "reed ceremony" song, sung for the Mhlanga or reed ceremony. The words of the song imply that father has gone to court over various cases so often that all his cattle have been attacked. The reed ceremony is carried out when the girls of the tribe all go together to the reed beds to cut reeds for the palings of the villages which are a feature of the Swazi Kraals. Mhlanga song for the reed ceremony.
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- Date Issued: 1958
Londida ("A butterfly", the flighty girl)
- Authors: Lamkhwanase Tsemba, 4 girls and group of men from the Queen mother's village , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Swazi , Folk music , Africa Ewatini Lobamba, Mbabane f-sq
- Language: Swati
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/152312 , vital:39245 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR068-16
- Description: A man in the group interpolated praises. The song is sung at weddings and also for the Mhlanga or "reed" ceremonies. It is only sung by the unmarried girls. Mhlanga ceremonial song for the reed ceremony.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958