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Jean Ndjela ku parquet (Jean Ndjela before the court)

- Ombiza Charles, Hugh Tracey

Jean Ndjela kwa commissaire (Jean Ndjela before the magistrate)

- Ombiza Charles, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Ombiza Charles , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1952
  • Subjects: Folk songs, Zande , Alur (African people) , Swahili-speaking peoples , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Stanleyville f-cg
  • Language: Zande/Vongara
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/168073 , vital:41538 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0124-9
  • Description: Jean Ndjela (a personal friend of Ombiza's) was a thief on a grand scale. When arrested for stealing goods to the value of 2 to 3 million francs, about 20,000 pounds, he implicated a number of other people to whom he had given stolen goods and when he appeared before the court he was followed, not only by them, but by ten porters bearing the stolen merchandise on their heads 'enough to stock another shop.' The singer concludes with the words "Jean Ndjela, I wish you courage and patience. I only hope you will not die in prison." Topical song, with guitar, bottle and friction stick.
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  • Date Issued: 1952

Malovu ya biere

- Oroclos, Performer not specified, Ombiza Charles, Tracey, Hugh

Maozi ya haluwa feza

- Oroclos, Performer not specified, Ombiza Charles, Tracey, Hugh

Masida Ngalima

- Ombiza Charles, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Ombiza Charles , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1952
  • Subjects: Folk songs, Zande , Alur (African people) , Swahili-speaking peoples , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Stanleyville f-cg
  • Language: Zande/Vongara
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/168102 , vital:41541 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0124-11
  • Description: Masida Ngalima is the name of a woman. Like so many other African guitar players, Ombiza Charles appears to play the whole of his considerable reportoire in one key only. Most of his songs, like this one were about the well-dressed, perfumed beauties of the town, their charms and their msideeds. "The girls of today know how to dress" he sings. This claim is well justified as the girls of Stanleyville are, in our experience, perhaps the best dressed of all urban girls in the Congo. Topical song with guitar, bottle and friction stick.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1952

Mpenzi umehangaika bure

- Oroclos, Performer not specified, Ombiza Charles, Tracey, Hugh

Nachelewa

- Oroclos, Performer not specified, Ombiza Charles, Tracey, Hugh

Safari ya baraka

- Oroclos, Performer not specified, Ombiza Charles, Tracey, Hugh

Safari ya Baraka

- Ombiza Charles, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Ombiza Charles , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1952
  • Subjects: Folk songs, Zande , Alur (African people) , Swahili-speaking peoples , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Stanleyville f-cg
  • Language: Zande/Vongara
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/168064 , vital:41537 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0124-08
  • Description: "The successful journey when everything went right, my business affairs flourished, my friends were pleased to see me and I had no mishaps on the way and returned safely." In 1952 Ombiza Charles was one of the leading guitar players and singers in Stanleyville. They had copied the style of playing introduced from Angola through Leopoildvile and every tune they employed they called a 'rumba'. This professional group of performers was called Oroclos. 'Rumba' topical song, with guitar, bottle and friction stick.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1952

Wali

- Oroclos, Performer not specified, Ombiza Charles, Tracey, Hugh

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