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Authors: Daliya Kafaniza , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1958
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Chikwawa f-mw
Language: Nyanja/Mang'anja
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/158003 , vital:40138 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR093-07
Description: A long time ago I went to the garden and there came a certain spider which turned into a man who told my children to give him some clothes to wear. The man told the children he had been sent by their mother. So he took the clothes and disappeared. "Children are children, they take their clothes from their clothes bag and give they away to anyone." Story song with clapping.
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Date Issued: 1958

Authors: Daliya Kafaniza and Mang'anja women , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1958
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Chikwawa f-mw
Language: Nyanja/Mang'anja
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/158160 , vital:40156 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR093-13
Description: Here is one of the rare references to cannibalism in Southern Africa where it was not frequently practised. "Let us go, Achimangala Mangala, let us go. There was a man who asked a woman to marry him. This man used to eat before going to the garden to hoe, and so when he went hoeing he always came back late. A boy used to come and bring him food in the garden and he would ask the boy "how many plates of food have you bought?" This happened frequently and last of all he ate not only the food but the plates and the boy found nothing, and the man had vanished also as he was a cannibal. Story and song.
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Date Issued: 1958

Authors: Bareto Kanjiunji and boys and girls , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1958
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Chikwawa f-mw
Language: Nyanja/Mang'anja
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/158173 , vital:40158 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR093-14
Description: Although the language used is Mang'anja, the style of singing, they say comes from the Sena element in their society a great many Sena people having migrated out of the Zambezi valley into that of the Shire. Some time ago a rabbit and a man went together to get Matutungwe fruit to eat. While they were eating they saw a python and it wound itself round the man. The man begged the rabbit to go and get help. The rabbit replied, "You help yourself" because when we rabbits climb a tree we go with a knife to cut anything that entangles us. The man asked the rabbit again "Please rabbit help me". So the rabbit said, "just you sing this song and you will be free". So the man sang the song and escaped from the python. The customary reply during the story is "Go-gogodera andi sinjo." Story and song.
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Date Issued: 1958

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