Kapitas ndi wachabi (The foreman is useless)
- Faresi Gama and Najuzi Phiri (woman), Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Faresi Gama and Najuzi Phiri (woman) , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Nyanja , Songs, Chewa , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Masula, Lilongwe, Nyasaland f-mw
- Language: Nyanja, Chewa, Chichewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153824 , vital:39526 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR078-07
- Description: "The foreman is useless, I am not married, how am I going to make those bands by myself (Contour ridges). There is an agricultural demonstrator in this village who it appears occassionally demands the making of contour ridges through the lands. This song is in response to a demand upon an unmarried woman to complete the work. Topical song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
- Authors: Faresi Gama and Najuzi Phiri (woman) , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Nyanja , Songs, Chewa , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Masula, Lilongwe, Nyasaland f-mw
- Language: Nyanja, Chewa, Chichewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153824 , vital:39526 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR078-07
- Description: "The foreman is useless, I am not married, how am I going to make those bands by myself (Contour ridges). There is an agricultural demonstrator in this village who it appears occassionally demands the making of contour ridges through the lands. This song is in response to a demand upon an unmarried woman to complete the work. Topical song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Tikangomva (Yellow cloth)
- Faresi Gama and Najuzi Phiri (woman), Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Faresi Gama and Najuzi Phiri (woman) , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Nyanja , Songs, Chewa , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Masula, Lilongwe, Nyasaland f-mw
- Language: Nyanja, Chewa, Chichewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153815 , vital:39525 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR078-06
- Description: "We heard that you bought a yellow cloth and we know at once you were going to be very proud of it. This usually happens at Masula." Topical song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
- Authors: Faresi Gama and Najuzi Phiri (woman) , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Nyanja , Songs, Chewa , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Masula, Lilongwe, Nyasaland f-mw
- Language: Nyanja, Chewa, Chichewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153815 , vital:39525 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR078-06
- Description: "We heard that you bought a yellow cloth and we know at once you were going to be very proud of it. This usually happens at Masula." Topical song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
A Namageli
- Faresi Gama and Nadiesi Namulinde, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Faresi Gama and Nadiesi Namulinde , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Nyanja , Songs, Chewa , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Masula, Lilongwe, Nyasaland f-mw
- Language: Nyanja, Chewa, Chichewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153482 , vital:39457 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR076-19
- Description: A Namageli, the woman, waas called to Chief Masura's court and while in the court she gave to her child. She had been asked to expalin how she had obtained her child in the absence of her husband in Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia. The dramatic appearance of the child at the moment of investigations was a cause of merriment to all concerned. Pounding song with pestle and mortar.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
- Authors: Faresi Gama and Nadiesi Namulinde , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Nyanja , Songs, Chewa , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Masula, Lilongwe, Nyasaland f-mw
- Language: Nyanja, Chewa, Chichewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153482 , vital:39457 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR076-19
- Description: A Namageli, the woman, waas called to Chief Masura's court and while in the court she gave to her child. She had been asked to expalin how she had obtained her child in the absence of her husband in Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia. The dramatic appearance of the child at the moment of investigations was a cause of merriment to all concerned. Pounding song with pestle and mortar.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
NaBanda naPhiri (Banda and Phiri)
- Young boys and girls, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Young boys and girls , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Chikwawa f-rh
- Language: Nyanja/Mang'anja
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/156063 , vital:39947 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR089-07
- Description: 'Banda and Phiri, I started calling you long ago now you are left behind. A good example of Mang'anja clapping. The language spoken by these Chikunda emigrants into this region from the Zambezi valley near Tete is much mixed up with the local Mang'anja. Njole dance with clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
- Authors: Young boys and girls , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Chikwawa f-rh
- Language: Nyanja/Mang'anja
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/156063 , vital:39947 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR089-07
- Description: 'Banda and Phiri, I started calling you long ago now you are left behind. A good example of Mang'anja clapping. The language spoken by these Chikunda emigrants into this region from the Zambezi valley near Tete is much mixed up with the local Mang'anja. Njole dance with clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Mbeta
- Mbowela, Phiri (Performer), Simarambo, Phiri (Performer), Tracey, Hugh (Recordist)
- Authors: Mbowela, Phiri (Performer) , Simarambo, Phiri (Performer) , Tracey, Hugh (Recordist)
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Songs, Chewa , Chewa (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Lilongwe f-mw
- Language: Tumbuka , Chewa, Chichewa, Nyanja
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/187102 , vital:44565 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR191-23
- Description: "It is a bad thing to have no husband. A man forced me to sleep with him. Then the people said I was bad woman!" The Gwetisa is a dance performed at parties or at any time they say, when people are gathered together. The 'echoed' style of singing is familiar to most of central Nyasaland and the celeste caused between the two voices appears as over-modulation on the recording. Gwesta dance song for men and women
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
- Authors: Mbowela, Phiri (Performer) , Simarambo, Phiri (Performer) , Tracey, Hugh (Recordist)
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Songs, Chewa , Chewa (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Lilongwe f-mw
- Language: Tumbuka , Chewa, Chichewa, Nyanja
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/187102 , vital:44565 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR191-23
- Description: "It is a bad thing to have no husband. A man forced me to sleep with him. Then the people said I was bad woman!" The Gwetisa is a dance performed at parties or at any time they say, when people are gathered together. The 'echoed' style of singing is familiar to most of central Nyasaland and the celeste caused between the two voices appears as over-modulation on the recording. Gwesta dance song for men and women
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Plant Biochemistry: BOT 322
- Authors: Afolayan, A J , Gama, P
- Date: 2010-11
- Language: English
- Type: Examination paper
- Identifier: vital:17747 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1010233
- Description: Plant Biochemistry: BOT 322, semester examination November 2010.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 2010-11
- Authors: Afolayan, A J , Gama, P
- Date: 2010-11
- Language: English
- Type: Examination paper
- Identifier: vital:17747 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1010233
- Description: Plant Biochemistry: BOT 322, semester examination November 2010.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 2010-11
Horticulture: BOT 505
- Authors: Magwa, M L , Gama, P
- Date: 2009-11
- Language: English
- Type: Examination paper
- Identifier: vital:17745 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1010231
- Description: Horticulture: BOT 505, Honours degree examination November 2009.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 2009-11
- Authors: Magwa, M L , Gama, P
- Date: 2009-11
- Language: English
- Type: Examination paper
- Identifier: vital:17745 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1010231
- Description: Horticulture: BOT 505, Honours degree examination November 2009.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 2009-11
Plant Biochemistry: BOT 322
- Authors: Afolayan, A J , Gama, P
- Date: 2009-11
- Language: English
- Type: Examination paper
- Identifier: vital:17744 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1010230
- Description: Plant Biochemistry: BOT 322, degree examination November 2009.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 2009-11
- Authors: Afolayan, A J , Gama, P
- Date: 2009-11
- Language: English
- Type: Examination paper
- Identifier: vital:17744 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1010230
- Description: Plant Biochemistry: BOT 322, degree examination November 2009.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 2009-11
Plant Systematics: BOT 323
- Authors: Grierson, D S , Gama, P
- Date: 2010-11
- Language: English
- Type: Examination paper
- Identifier: vital:17748 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1010234
- Description: Plant Systematics: BOT 323, degree examination November 2010.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 2010-11
- Authors: Grierson, D S , Gama, P
- Date: 2010-11
- Language: English
- Type: Examination paper
- Identifier: vital:17748 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1010234
- Description: Plant Systematics: BOT 323, degree examination November 2010.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 2010-11
Plant Ecology: BOT 313
- Authors: Afolayan, A , Gama, P
- Date: 2010-06
- Language: English
- Type: Examination paper
- Identifier: vital:17740 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1010226
- Description: Plant Ecology: BOT 313, June semester examination 2010.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 2010-06
- Authors: Afolayan, A , Gama, P
- Date: 2010-06
- Language: English
- Type: Examination paper
- Identifier: vital:17740 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1010226
- Description: Plant Ecology: BOT 313, June semester examination 2010.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 2010-06
Plant Biochemistry: BOT 322
- Authors: Afolayan, A J , Gama, P
- Date: 2010-02
- Subjects: Botany
- Language: English
- Type: Examination paper
- Identifier: vital:17732 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1010181
- Description: Plant Biochemistry: BOT 322, examination February 2010.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 2010-02
- Authors: Afolayan, A J , Gama, P
- Date: 2010-02
- Subjects: Botany
- Language: English
- Type: Examination paper
- Identifier: vital:17732 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1010181
- Description: Plant Biochemistry: BOT 322, examination February 2010.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 2010-02
Horticulture: BOT 505
- Authors: Magwa, M L , Gama, P
- Date: 2010-11
- Language: English
- Type: Examination paper
- Identifier: vital:17750 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1010236
- Description: Horticulture: BOT 505, degree examination November 2010.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 2010-11
- Authors: Magwa, M L , Gama, P
- Date: 2010-11
- Language: English
- Type: Examination paper
- Identifier: vital:17750 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1010236
- Description: Horticulture: BOT 505, degree examination November 2010.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 2010-11
Plant Biochemistry: BOT 322
- Authors: Afolayan, A J , Gama, P
- Date: 2012-01
- Language: English
- Type: Examination paper
- Identifier: vital:17739 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1010225
- Description: Plant Biochemistry, BOT 322, supplementary examination January 2012.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 2012-01
- Authors: Afolayan, A J , Gama, P
- Date: 2012-01
- Language: English
- Type: Examination paper
- Identifier: vital:17739 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1010225
- Description: Plant Biochemistry, BOT 322, supplementary examination January 2012.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 2012-01
Amai anda nena mangwila-ngwila (My mother always told me not to touch anything in the house)
- Authors: Josani Phiri , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Malawi , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Songs, Chewa , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Dowa f-mw
- Language: Nyanja/Chewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/160790 , vital:40544 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR099-04
- Description: On hearing his song played back to him, Josani Phiri held his head in his hands and shook it unbelievingly during the whole playing. Self delectative song with Bongo board zither.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Josani Phiri , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Malawi , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Songs, Chewa , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Dowa f-mw
- Language: Nyanja/Chewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/160790 , vital:40544 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR099-04
- Description: On hearing his song played back to him, Josani Phiri held his head in his hands and shook it unbelievingly during the whole playing. Self delectative song with Bongo board zither.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Uku ndapita ine
- Nyirenda, Ganizani, Phiri, Jeremia, Tracey, Hugh
- Authors: Nyirenda, Ganizani , Phiri, Jeremia , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1950-05-22
- Subjects: Folk Music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi City not specified f-mw
- Language: Nyanja
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/282840 , vital:55879 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Commercial Records, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , TP1461-XYZ4906b
- Description: Indigenous music
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950-05-22
- Authors: Nyirenda, Ganizani , Phiri, Jeremia , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1950-05-22
- Subjects: Folk Music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi City not specified f-mw
- Language: Nyanja
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/282840 , vital:55879 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Commercial Records, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , TP1461-XYZ4906b
- Description: Indigenous music
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950-05-22
Inu A Nambewe, inu A Phiri (You Nambewa, you Phiri)
- Five elderly Chewa men, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Five elderly Chewa men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Chewa , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Dedza f-mw
- Language: Nyanja/Chewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/160242 , vital:40425 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR097-09
- Description: After singing their song they tap their bamboo friction sticks and laugh and blow into the ends of the bamboos. A widow has to put string into her hair for two years after the husband dies, to mourn for him. The wicked old man is egging on the widow to be merry again. When this recording was played to some villagers in a nearby district, the Chief Njolomole was specially delighted to hear the blowing down the bamboo tubes at the end of the performance, an old drinking party custom, it appeared. "You Nambewa, you Phiri (two widows). Have you already taken off your mourning strings before you have finished mourning for your husband. You A Nabetha, and you A Naketha?" Drinking party dance song. Umkwenda with friction sticks.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
- Authors: Five elderly Chewa men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Chewa , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Dedza f-mw
- Language: Nyanja/Chewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/160242 , vital:40425 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR097-09
- Description: After singing their song they tap their bamboo friction sticks and laugh and blow into the ends of the bamboos. A widow has to put string into her hair for two years after the husband dies, to mourn for him. The wicked old man is egging on the widow to be merry again. When this recording was played to some villagers in a nearby district, the Chief Njolomole was specially delighted to hear the blowing down the bamboo tubes at the end of the performance, an old drinking party custom, it appeared. "You Nambewa, you Phiri (two widows). Have you already taken off your mourning strings before you have finished mourning for your husband. You A Nabetha, and you A Naketha?" Drinking party dance song. Umkwenda with friction sticks.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Plant Systematics: BOT 323
- Authors: Grierson, D S , Gama, P
- Date: 2011-02
- Subjects: Plants -- Classification
- Language: English
- Type: Examination paper
- Identifier: vital:17734 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1010184
- Description: Plant Systematics: BOT 323, supplementary examination February 2011.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 2011-02
- Authors: Grierson, D S , Gama, P
- Date: 2011-02
- Subjects: Plants -- Classification
- Language: English
- Type: Examination paper
- Identifier: vital:17734 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1010184
- Description: Plant Systematics: BOT 323, supplementary examination February 2011.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 2011-02
Botany: BOT 506
- Afolayan, A J, Magwa, M, Grierson, D S, Mayekiso, B, Buwa, L, Gama, P
- Authors: Afolayan, A J , Magwa, M , Grierson, D S , Mayekiso, B , Buwa, L , Gama, P
- Date: 2009-11
- Language: English
- Type: Examination paper
- Identifier: vital:17746 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1010232
- Description: Botany Honours (General Paper): BOT 506, degree examination November 2009.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 2009-11
- Authors: Afolayan, A J , Magwa, M , Grierson, D S , Mayekiso, B , Buwa, L , Gama, P
- Date: 2009-11
- Language: English
- Type: Examination paper
- Identifier: vital:17746 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1010232
- Description: Botany Honours (General Paper): BOT 506, degree examination November 2009.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 2009-11
Plant Ecology: BOT 502
General Paper (Botany Honours): BOT 506
- Afolayan, A J, Magwa, M, Grierson, D S, Mayekiso, B, Buwa, L, Gama, P
- Authors: Afolayan, A J , Magwa, M , Grierson, D S , Mayekiso, B , Buwa, L , Gama, P
- Date: 2010-11
- Language: English
- Type: Examination paper
- Identifier: vital:17751 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1010237
- Description: General Paper (Botany Honours): BOT 506, honours degree examination November 2010.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 2010-11
- Authors: Afolayan, A J , Magwa, M , Grierson, D S , Mayekiso, B , Buwa, L , Gama, P
- Date: 2010-11
- Language: English
- Type: Examination paper
- Identifier: vital:17751 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1010237
- Description: General Paper (Botany Honours): BOT 506, honours degree examination November 2010.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 2010-11