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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

Akaizari mbanda yasila (The Mbanda dance is finished)

Amai netini kone chamba

Chundalala chawona mwezi (The moon was already up and the ants were gone)

  • Authors: Group of 4 Ngoni men , 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/10962/137483 , vital:37529 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR038-05
  • Description: The meaning behind the title is that the singer was too late to catch any flying ants, which usually swarm at dusk. By the time the moon was up, the ants had closed their bodies again and there were no ants to catch. Mbanda dance song with Malaza leg rattles
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  • Date Issued: 1957
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