"We have encircled the guinea-fowl. We men have encircled the guinea-fowl." Male initiation song
"We fear the earth, for when we die we are buried in earth." Hans Cory, the famous anthropologist wh...
Traditional initiation song with moth cocoon leg rattle (matlao) and clapping accompaniment
Male initiation song sung on going up into the hills for the period of seclusion during the initiati...
Reference to the guinea fowl is common in Tswana songs often in connection with male initiation song...
"We men, we have driven the guinea fowl into the ruined, deserted kraal. We have driven it, we have ...
"We want the guinea fowl. We men have surrounded the guinea fowl at a ruined kraal. We fathers have ...
"We stab, we enter. This is the song of the Kwena." All these songs were led by different soloists. ...
On this occasion, the ululating of the women and the general festive air was enhanced because of the...
A most interesting song which may well reflect something of the perplexity of the Tswana who have fa...
This Lengae is sung when boys are going up to the initiation school. "At Mojela's place, my ho,e, Te...
"I am a big buffalo, I can go through any barrier." Halfway through the song, the Chief's uncle stop...
On this occasion, the ululating of the women and the general festive air was enhanced because of the...
The singers had just come back from initiation school. Here they use floor polish instead of the tra...
"The great and the small tortoises are both of the same family. When we men are lean it is because w...
"We come from where we have killed. Oh, the greyhead! We-we! We praise our leader. We come from the ...
"We fear the earth, for when we die we are buried in earth." Hans Cory, the famous anthropologist wh...
Traditional initiation song with moth cocoon leg rattle (matlao) and clapping accompaniment
Male initiation song sung on going up into the hills for the period of seclusion during the initiati...
Reference to the guinea fowl is common in Tswana songs often in connection with male initiation song...
"We men, we have driven the guinea fowl into the ruined, deserted kraal. We have driven it, we have ...
"We want the guinea fowl. We men have surrounded the guinea fowl at a ruined kraal. We fathers have ...
"We stab, we enter. This is the song of the Kwena." All these songs were led by different soloists. ...
On this occasion, the ululating of the women and the general festive air was enhanced because of the...
A most interesting song which may well reflect something of the perplexity of the Tswana who have fa...
This Lengae is sung when boys are going up to the initiation school. "At Mojela's place, my ho,e, Te...
"I am a big buffalo, I can go through any barrier." Halfway through the song, the Chief's uncle stop...
On this occasion, the ululating of the women and the general festive air was enhanced because of the...
The singers had just come back from initiation school. Here they use floor polish instead of the tra...
"The great and the small tortoises are both of the same family. When we men are lean it is because w...
"We come from where we have killed. Oh, the greyhead! We-we! We praise our leader. We come from the ...
"We fear the earth, for when we die we are buried in earth." Hans Cory, the famous anthropologist wh...
Traditional initiation song with moth cocoon leg rattle (matlao) and clapping accompaniment
Male initiation song sung on going up into the hills for the period of seclusion during the initiati...