Awe simene
- Authors: Robert Golozera and 3 elderly women with the chief , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Ngoni (African people) , Arts, Malawi , Folk music , Africa Malawi Njolomoe, Ncheu District, Central Nyasaland f-mw
- Language: Ngoni
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/154838 , vital:39784 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR084-04
- Description: Sung in the old Ngoni style. The Chief calls one out towards the end of the song that his people are the ones who came from the Swati, down South (with the Gomani section of the Ngoni). This section migrated from Natal either just before or during the Shaka wars. "Some had brought fighting men to terrify me, but could do nothing. But here we still live and you could do nothing to us." Two fighting songs.
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- Date Issued: 1959
Anya vindelu tayani uyanga (Be careful, you who wear beards)
- Authors: Jefaserase Lungu and 4 Ngoni men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Ngoni (African people) , Arts, Malawi , Folk music , Africa Zambia Roan Antelope Mine, Northern Rhodesia f-za
- Language: Ngoni
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/154947 , vital:39796 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR084-16
- Description: There is a belief that those who wear moustaches or beards are given to the practise of witchcraft. And the song warns them to be careful or they will not receive proper burial when they die, but their bodies will be thrown away in the bush. The leader of this song of Ngoni dancers was a much older man than the dancers. Mbanda dance song with leg rattles.
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- Date Issued: 1959
Anthu acilendo
- Authors: Lucy Nyamangwe , Tonga girls , Nsenga women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Nsenga (African people) , Ngoni (African people) , Folk songs, Tonga (Zambezi) , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Chinteche f-mw
- Language: Nsenga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/184540 , vital:44233 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR185-16
- Description: "Men who travel away from home make their women think about them with longing as they sleep in their 'pyjamas' alone." The word 'pyjama' has been adopted locally as 'Majamara'. In point of fact the women do not sleep in pyjamas at all they say, and it is used as a figure of speech. Chioda dance song for young women with drum rhythm beaten on a box
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- Date Issued: 1950
Andiyera ndabuda nchito
- Authors: Kaiya Maritenzi and Ngoni men and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Ngoni (African people) , Arts, Malawi , Folk music , Africa Mozambique Furancungo f-mz
- Language: Ngoni
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/154920 , vital:39793 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR084-13
- Description: The singers came from the region on Portuguese territory adjacent to Nyasaland called Angonia near the Dedza District where a large concentration of Ngoni people are to be found. Ngoma dance with clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
Amalume kuwayawa
- Authors: Group of Nsenga women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Nsenga (African people) , Ngoni (African people) , Folk songs, Tonga (Zambezi) , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Petauke f-za
- Language: Nsenga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/184418 , vital:44220 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR185-03
- Description: "Boys marry young girls, who is Lami going to marry? You will never have any food. You are going to eat your mother. My uncle is not settled, for he thinks I am his wife." One woman claps gently in the background
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- Date Issued: 1957
Amai netini kone chamba
- Authors: Josita Phiri , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk songs , Songs, Nyanja , Nsenga (African people) , Ngoni (African people) , Africa South Africa Northern Transvaal f-sa
- Language: Nyanja , Nsenga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/137529 , vital:37534 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR038-10
- Description: A mother was cutting her child's hair. The child says: "Mother why do you do this? I want to go and play." Selef-delectative song with Bangwe board zither with 7 strings
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Akaizari mbanda yasila (The Mbanda dance is finished)
- Authors: Group of 4 Ngoni men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk songs , Songs, Nyanja , Nsenga (African people) , Ngoni (African people) , Africa Zambia Petanke f-za
- Language: Nyanja , Nsenga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/137501 , vital:37531 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR038-07
- Description: The dance song is sung to wind up the evening and to show the dancing is at the end. Mbanda dance song with Malaza leg rattles.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Ahume bangu okonda kuyenda njinga nityale (My husband likes to roam)
- Authors: Group of 12 Ngoni women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk songs , Songs, Nyanja , Nsenga (African people) , Ngoni (African people) , Africa Zambia Fort Jameson f-za
- Language: Nyanja , Nsenga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/137455 , vital:37526 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR038-02
- Description: "My husband likes to roam, so I shall break his bicycle." These women were Ngoni, but singing in Nsenga the language of their forebears. The singing of the Ngoni is especially interesting for the fact that they sing in 2 distinct styles, that of the Zulu (Ngoni), their father's tribe and that of their mother's tribes who were conquered by the Ngoni. Both strains are still clearly defined after nearly a century of integration. Women's party dance song with clapping.
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- Date Issued: 1957
Ada a Banda
- Authors: Lucy Nyamangwe , Tonga girls , Nsenga women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Nsenga (African people) , Ngoni (African people) , Folk songs, Tonga (Zambezi) , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Chinteche f-mw
- Language: Nsenga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/184549 , vital:44234 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR185-17
- Description: "My father, Banda, has gone off to work in the towns, for a long long time, to buy himself clothes." How true a reflection this is upon thousands of Tonga men in this district who go off to mines and towns for their own reasons leaving the women and children to fend for themselves at home. Many send back money, but as many others find local foreign girls and forget their home and children. Chioda dance song for young women with drum rhythm beaten on a box
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950