Chimangala mangala (The cannibal)
- Authors: Daliya Kafaniza and Mang'anja women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Chikwawa f-mw
- Language: Nyanja/Mang'anja
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/158160 , vital:40156 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR093-13
- Description: Here is one of the rare references to cannibalism in Southern Africa where it was not frequently practised. "Let us go, Achimangala Mangala, let us go. There was a man who asked a woman to marry him. This man used to eat before going to the garden to hoe, and so when he went hoeing he always came back late. A boy used to come and bring him food in the garden and he would ask the boy "how many plates of food have you bought?" This happened frequently and last of all he ate not only the food but the plates and the boy found nothing, and the man had vanished also as he was a cannibal. Story and song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Ndachinyuka, Pitoria (I will say no more, Pitoria)
- Authors: George Zongoloti and chorus of small girls , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Mpatsa, Port Herald f-rh
- Language: Nyanja/Mang'anja
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/155721 , vital:39909 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR087-06
- Description: The two people mentioned in the song are imaginary and not actual people. "I will not say any more, Pitoria (sometimes pronounced Vitoria by the singers). For you have no teeth left. "Yes" she said, "but you Bitoni, when you come near you sound like Thomas, you make a noise like a motor car engine. When you laugh you make a noise like a maize mill." Pitoria was an old woman who was married to Bitoni. He told her she was now to old. Topical song with Nthikuri barrel drum.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958