O-dressi chivara madona (O the dress of the girl)
- Authors: Alfred 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 Beni Furancungo, Macanga District, Tete f-mw
- Language: Nyanja, Chewa, Chichewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153685 , vital:39499 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR077-16
- Description: This item was strummed across the strings. "Oh, the dress of women. She left her child on the road to Nyungwe." (Tete). Topical song with Bangwe board zither, resonated.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Nikhonyowa (Nikhonyowa is my friend)
- Authors: Sitori Malindi and Dailimi Likluva , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Chewa , Lomwe (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Mkanda f-mw
- Language: Lomwe
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/160697 , vital:40500 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR098-15
- Description: "Nikhonyowa, I want to take you, for my friend. My mother in Muthollolla." The Lomwe delight in singing with their special friends and no doubt the originator of this song had chosen Nikhonyowa to sing with him. Mothollola is the name of a village beyond Mlanje mountain in Portuguese territory from where he came over to Nyasaland as so many Lomwe have done, about 200,000 in the last 10 to 20 years. Party song with clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Kawoza ndirinde
- Authors: Filimon Phiri , Tonga women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Tonga (Nyasa) , Songs, Chewa , Chewa (African people) , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Musical instruments , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Chinteche f-mw
- Language: Tumbuka , Chewa, Chichewa, Nyanja , Tonga (Nyasa)
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/184911 , vital:44286 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR187-12
- Description: The story is about a chief who died and left a window. People used to come and visit her every evening. She would play them a magical drum both to entertain her visitors and also to remind her of her husband. The drum would play rhythms by itself being touched. Story song
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950