Mantentemezana (Herd boys' rain song)
- Authors: Group of small boys , 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/10962/152184 , vital:39231 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR068-02
- Description: This song is a well known and recited by herd boys on seeing small clouds appear in the sky calling the clouds to collect and drop their rain for the cattle they are herding. Alternately for the clouds to spread out and allow the sun to shine again. Herd boy's rain song
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Yenabo Thoko (Hello, mother of Thoko)
- Authors: Group of small 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/10962/152152 , vital:39226 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR068-01
- Description: The verse is a traditional one, perporting to instruct a girl in her feminine role, though in fact a child's jingle. Children's rhyme.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Izibongo zika mswati
- Authors: Kufa Dlamini (Son of Chief Giga) , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Swazi , Swazi (African people) , Folk music , Africa Eswatini Emkhuzweni, Northern District f-sq
- Language: Swati
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153201 , vital:39419 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR075-05
- Description: Praise song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958