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A re eng

Ca a nelwe kolobe (Give the pig to no one)

Ditshene tsa Mmuputsoane)

  • Authors: Rautana Dinake and large group of men and women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1959
  • Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Ngwaketse (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Botswana Kanye f-bs
  • Language: Tswana/Ngwaketse
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/162515 , vital:40942 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0108-05
  • Description: "The baboons of Mmuputsoane eat fruit of the Mumpudu tree, unripe. But not the fruit of the Monyenyana. They would rather eat the Mothwanye fruit, but they must spare the fruit of the Mogwana for we use that to make our cider. Sing my birds." The Mogwana tree is one of the trees of the bushveld. It bears fruit which is used by the Tswana people to make a very potent alcoholic brew, much stronger than beer made from grain. Pina dance with clapping and stamping
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  • Date Issued: 1959

He ga re a nnwa ke nKgana (We men have a big pot of beer)

He mmalo kgaka = We want the guinea fowl

  • Authors: Keelediwe Modise and large group of men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1959
  • Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Ngwaketse (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Botswana Kanye f-bs
  • Language: Tswana/Ngwaketse
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/162578 , vital:40948 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0108-11
  • Description: "We want the guinea fowl. We men have surrounded the guinea fowl at a ruined kraal. We fathers have surrounded the guinea fowl." It seems that guinea fowl are the special prequisite of the grown men. The younger ones are not supposed to eat the guinea fowl. In this song the guinea fowl stand for the young men who were hunting them and were supposed to bring them to the older men. The word "Sotswaneng" means a ruined kraal where a special sort of short spreading thorny plant invades such places. Hunting song
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  • Date Issued: 1959

He mmalo kgaka = We want the guinea fowl

  • Authors: Keelediwe Modise and large group of men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1959
  • Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Ngwaketse (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Botswana Kanye f-bs
  • Language: Tswana/Ngwaketse
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/162569 , vital:40951 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0108-11
  • Description: "We want the guinea fowl. We men have surrounded the guinea fowl at a ruined kraal. We fathers have surrounded the guinea fowl." It seems that guinea fowl are the special prequisite of the grown men. The younger ones are not supposed to eat the guinea fowl. In this song the guinea fowl stand for the young men who were hunting them and were supposed to bring them to the older men. The word "Sotswaneng" means a ruined kraal where a special sort of short spreading thorny plant invades such places. Hunting song
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  • Date Issued: 1959

He Mmuputsoane (Mmamoshage)

He mogoge goga o lere thokolo (Draw, draw us heavy drops of rain)

He rea nyadiwa (We are despised)

  • Authors: Serakalala Abotseng and group of 35 men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1959
  • Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Ngwaketse (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Botswana Kanye f-bs
  • Language: Tswana/Ngwaketse
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/162591 , vital:40953 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0108-12
  • Description: "We are despised although we are despised. Were are the bullets fired when cattle are captured. Makau wee!" "Makau wee!" is a regimental shout. The official praise is known as Mmoki. Sung when returning from a lion hunt. The following Maboko were spoken in honour of Chief Bathoen II, the present Chief Magogodi Mmolaeatshephe (the man who kills a serpent), spoke the Chief's praises. Hunting song
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  • Date Issued: 1959

Kgomo tsa ga Mme (The cattle of my mother)

  • Authors: Korabo Morapane and large group of men and women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1959
  • Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Ngwaketse (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Botswana Kanye f-bs
  • Language: Tswana/Ngwaketse
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/162781 , vital:40982 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0109-05
  • Description: "My mother's cattle. My mother who is the mother of rain. The cattle of a dark young woman. Where are these droves of cattle going to? They are going to pray fro rain." Here, by poetic imagery, the cattle symbolise clouds. Rain clouds are dark, hence the 'dark woman'. The very poetic words of this song in which the clouds are likened to cattle, imply the complete dependence of both the Tswana people and their flocks and herds on rain. Rain song.
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  • Date Issued: 1959

Khakha si khudu (The big and the small tortoise)

Mabalane kgosi ra bokome (Mabalane, the chief in the North)

Maboko A Ga Kgosi Gaseitsiwe (Praises of Chief Gaseitsiwe)

Maolo di phepa (Now we are clean)

Maomosa re kaeleng (You women who cannot cook)

  • Authors: Motsekhumo Tiro and group of elderly men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1959
  • Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Ngwaketse (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Botswana Kanye f-bs
  • Language: Tswana/Ngwaketse
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/162524 , vital:40943 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0108-06
  • Description: "You women who cannot cook, tell us where the noise is." The meaning is that where there is noise, there may be a party and where there is a party there is good cheer. Introduced by each pipe played in turn around the circle of old men. Most of the pipes were made of reed. The pipes must be immersed in water before playing or they will not sound. They were very old pipes and the tuning was clearly awry, the old players being unable to tune them accurately. Pipe dance with Dithloko end-blown reeds
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  • Date Issued: 1959

Phatshwa bolela (Tell us, black and white ox)

Pula (Rain)

Re tswa kwa Tlhabane (We come from Saulspoort)

Re tswa kwa Tlhabane (We come from Saulspoort)

Sekokodia pula wee (We humbly implore rain)

  • Authors: Large group of women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1959
  • Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Ngwaketse (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Botswana Kanye f-bs
  • Language: Tswana/Ngwaketse
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/162799 , vital:40984 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0109-07
  • Description: "We humbly implore rain, oh, may it rain! If it rains, we shall rejoice." The land belongs to the chief so they bring him the first fruits and a portion is returned to them of which they make beer and also bring some of it to the Chief. This song and others like it, are sung when they drink the beer themselves. This beer is drunk at the Chief's Kgotla. Rain song.
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  • Date Issued: 1959
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