Rungano rgwe nerera (Story of the orphan girl in the cave)
- Authors: Rufashas and friend , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Karanga (African people) , Folk songs, Shona , Folk music , Africa Zimbabwe Takawarasha, Chibi District, Southern Rhodesia f-rh
- Language: Shona, Karanga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/154577 , vital:39750 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR082-10
- Description: A variation of a story collected at Gutu and eleswhere. It tells of a girl who was locked in a cave and whose brother brought her food every day. He used to sing a special song by which she recognised him and opened the door. But a hyena had been hiding nearby and observed all this. And one day he impersonated the brother and sang his song. The girl opened the door and the hyena ate her up. Stroy with song.
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- Date Issued: 1958
A Namageli
- 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.
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- Date Issued: 1958