"I supposed you would come back from your journey singing as you came along the path. But you have gone for good." A woman is being justifyably caustic about her husband who is going away on a journey presumably leaving her to do all the work. Pairs of singers sing alternately, the second pair repeating what the first initiated. Chitsukulumwe dance with rattles and clapping
Gebede, gebede is the sound of putting ones things together and the banging together of boxes prepar...
"I will go and marry somewhere else, because all the girls think I am not faithful." The singers are...
Wedding song sung, by the bride's party when they bring the girl to her husbands' village. "I sing w...
"My husband likes to roam, so I shall break his bicycle." These women were Ngoni, but singing in Nse...
"Even if you divorce me and leave me alone, I will still be able to look after myself." Women songs,...
When the women clapped their hands they all chanted: "I left my lover." It appears that one woman ca...
"My husband likes to roam, so I shall break his bicycle." These women were Ngoni, but singing in Nse...
The man in the context went away to look for his employer, Mr. Baloni (Mr. Baron) near Lilongwe and ...
"I don't know where my wife has gone." Chianda dance, Kisazhi mbira, 6 bamboo reed
Each woman had her own rattle. These were made of stout grass in raft form. The song is about a man ...
Nthandazi is the name of a local labour recruting agency which has recruited her husband for work in...
The women perform this dance after work or after bringing back the reeds to repair the village palin...
The woman form a circle of singers and clappers and one at a time they come into the centre of the r...
The man is singing, partly in Falsetto, a duet with his wife. Self delectative song with Kalimba, el...
"I eloped with your wife and she is still with me. So what can you do about it?" sings the man. He t...
Gebede, gebede is the sound of putting ones things together and the banging together of boxes prepar...
"I will go and marry somewhere else, because all the girls think I am not faithful." The singers are...
Wedding song sung, by the bride's party when they bring the girl to her husbands' village. "I sing w...
"My husband likes to roam, so I shall break his bicycle." These women were Ngoni, but singing in Nse...
"Even if you divorce me and leave me alone, I will still be able to look after myself." Women songs,...
When the women clapped their hands they all chanted: "I left my lover." It appears that one woman ca...
"My husband likes to roam, so I shall break his bicycle." These women were Ngoni, but singing in Nse...
The man in the context went away to look for his employer, Mr. Baloni (Mr. Baron) near Lilongwe and ...
"I don't know where my wife has gone." Chianda dance, Kisazhi mbira, 6 bamboo reed
Each woman had her own rattle. These were made of stout grass in raft form. The song is about a man ...
Nthandazi is the name of a local labour recruting agency which has recruited her husband for work in...
The women perform this dance after work or after bringing back the reeds to repair the village palin...
The woman form a circle of singers and clappers and one at a time they come into the centre of the r...
The man is singing, partly in Falsetto, a duet with his wife. Self delectative song with Kalimba, el...
"I eloped with your wife and she is still with me. So what can you do about it?" sings the man. He t...
Gebede, gebede is the sound of putting ones things together and the banging together of boxes prepar...
"I will go and marry somewhere else, because all the girls think I am not faithful." The singers are...
Wedding song sung, by the bride's party when they bring the girl to her husbands' village. "I sing w...