Ogo de zili ndi myendo (She has tattoo marks)
- Authors: C. Banda and G. Phiri , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Nyanja , Songs, Chewa , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Chadza village, Lilongwe, Nyasaland f-mw
- Language: Nyanja, Chewa, Chichewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153652 , vital:39494 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR077-13
- Description: It is notable that the Chewa men of the region have the lowest opinion of their wives and vice versa, the custom which allows immediate marriage without bride price (Dibolo) or any other formality except what is locally called 'snatching' has clearly led to this state of affairs and whether recent or of long standing they could not say. Drinking song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Cimbwiwe (The Hyena)
- Authors: Chewa girls , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Nyanja , Songs, Chewa , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Vidzumo, Kasungu District, Central Nyasaland f-mw
- Language: Nyanja, Chewa, Chichewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153455 , vital:39454 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR076-16
- Description: "The Hyena cried all night long. 'Mu-u-u it cried. The husband (with many wives) has failed us today Nyilonga is sick today (so he says) 'Mu-u-u' it cried. Pounding song with pestle and mortar.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958