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Awu ngali wanchumo

  • Authors: o Feliciano, Muntano, Gomez , Gomez, F , Tracey, Hugh
  • Date: 1955
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Topical song , Guitar , Africa Mozambique Chibuto, Sul do Save f-mz
  • Language: Tonga
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/132105 , vital:36800 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR004-02 , Field card no. H1P-6
  • Description: "I am getting old and the young girls are no longer interested in me. I now compete with the older men and my old friends like me best. My wife gets no child, why? Cant the doctor help you get a child? My second wife has a child, so why not you, my first wife?" Lament with guitar.
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  • Date Issued: 1955

Bawa

Dabu mutamulani

Eliza buya (Come Eliza)

Godwa aswibasanga

  • Authors: Feliciano, Muntano Gomez , Gomez, F , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1955
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Topical song , Guitar , Africa Mozambique Chibuto, Sul do Save f-mz
  • Language: Tonga
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/132100 , vital:36799 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR004-01 , Field card no. 5
  • Description: "If you have no child, it is no good. Other women have children, they fill the village. There are many men here standing in the queues for going to Johannesburg. You, my wife, you do not want to eat porridge, you want rice. There is no rice here, because I am poor. Go to the rich where they can afford rice. So she went to a rich man to get her rice, but now she gets no clothes, no shoes, and at leas, no food. One of four topical songs with guitar.
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  • Date Issued: 1955

Hakunene

Kerestina

Kokwa vo (Uncle)

Kwongotela mwananga

Maluzo (The failure)

Mashenganyana

Mbilu yanga (My heart)

Nyamugowelo

Nzi kombela foli

Riranzo

Shingombela

Tingana mukon'wana

  • Authors: o Feliciano, Muntano Gomez , Gomez, F , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1955
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Topical song , Guitar , Africa Mozambique Chibuto, Sul do Save f-mz
  • Language: Tonga
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/132154 , vital:36805 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR004-03 , Field card no. H1P-7
  • Description: "At your home you give a person to the spirit Sikwembo. But at my house we only give a chicken to Sikwembo. Then we kill a second chicken and cook sadza porridge so that the spirit's fowl may come and eat both the sadza and the cooked fowl." The song refers to an argument between a man and wife and the diviner through whom the spirit is approached. One of four topical songs with guitar.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1955

Tsapwa

Tuwe-ruwe nzo tsema

Uta rungula wamamane lekaya (Greet the mothers at home)

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