Ajuba
- Authors: Buja soilders of the Force Publique , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Ngala (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Bumba f-cg
- Language: Mbangala
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/169130 , vital:41687 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0129-08
- Description: An attractive dance by young soilders whose tribe has the local reputation of being amongst the most handsome in the Congo. Their home district is at the most northerly part of the great bend in the Congo river where it is already several miles wide. Ajuba dance, with 2 bass drums, rattle and hand clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Mopepe
- Authors: Buja soilders of the Force Publique , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Ngala (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Bumba f-cg
- Language: Mbangala
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/169121 , vital:41686 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0129-07
- Description: Recorded at the camp Militaire, at Gombari, on the northern edge of the great Ituri Forest in north eastern Congo. Ngala is one of the most important Lingua Franca of the Congo having been the commercial language of the tribes trading up and down the river between Stanley Pool (Leopoldville) and Dtanley Falls (Stanleyville) 1000 miles up the river. The home of this Buja tribe is in central Congo on the great river itself, between Basoko and Lisala, north west of Stanleyville. Topical song with 2 bass drums.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952