"Mother, I am born for the assegai. Come out with the assegais people of Dikgale, Come out with the assegais. I was born for the leopard, I was born at the place where the Lehiliri trees grow. Come out with assegais. An old song from the fighting days of the last century. First Mazilikazi and later the whites fought in this district while the tribal headquaters were still here and later near Mochudi in Bechuanaland. Fighting song
"I failed to fight the Masai." The Masai are the famous pastoralists who live on the far side of the...
"A Chief's son always wants to become chief himself, are you not ashmed to want to take your father'...
The singer calls the fighting men Zebras in this old heroic song of the violent past. He says "Zebra...
This song is known over the whole lenght and breadth of the Karanga country. It was first sung, they...
This is an old fighting song. The Chief sang this with his leopard tail stick held aloft. Umrobo old...
This somg is taken from an old Ngoni regimental song which would, in the old days, have been used on...
One of the songs said to have been sung after a tribal raid - a morality song after victory, so that...
An old regimental song from the days of Zongendaba now used at parties or when the men have killed a...
"We have killed the people of the Kalahari." Makgalagadi is a team of contempt apparently used by so...
Sung in the old Ngoni style. The Chief calls one out towards the end of the song that his people are...
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Fighting songs which date back to the days when the Shangaans were raiding from the south-east and t...
"We come from where we have killed. Oh, the greyhead! We-we! We praise our leader. We come from the ...
"The people who protect this country are away fighting." This refers to old tribal fighting before t...
"Children of the lion. He - he! we! Having been called, we have come." This song was recorded on the...
"I failed to fight the Masai." The Masai are the famous pastoralists who live on the far side of the...
"A Chief's son always wants to become chief himself, are you not ashmed to want to take your father'...
The singer calls the fighting men Zebras in this old heroic song of the violent past. He says "Zebra...
This song is known over the whole lenght and breadth of the Karanga country. It was first sung, they...
This is an old fighting song. The Chief sang this with his leopard tail stick held aloft. Umrobo old...
This somg is taken from an old Ngoni regimental song which would, in the old days, have been used on...
One of the songs said to have been sung after a tribal raid - a morality song after victory, so that...
An old regimental song from the days of Zongendaba now used at parties or when the men have killed a...
"We have killed the people of the Kalahari." Makgalagadi is a team of contempt apparently used by so...
Sung in the old Ngoni style. The Chief calls one out towards the end of the song that his people are...
The gist of the song is about a man who was drowning in the river, and he called on all his friends ...
Fighting songs which date back to the days when the Shangaans were raiding from the south-east and t...
"We come from where we have killed. Oh, the greyhead! We-we! We praise our leader. We come from the ...
"The people who protect this country are away fighting." This refers to old tribal fighting before t...
"Children of the lion. He - he! we! Having been called, we have come." This song was recorded on the...
"I failed to fight the Masai." The Masai are the famous pastoralists who live on the far side of the...
"A Chief's son always wants to become chief himself, are you not ashmed to want to take your father'...
The singer calls the fighting men Zebras in this old heroic song of the violent past. He says "Zebra...