Ndikati ubwera ulendo waimba wisulo kunjila

  • Tweleve elderly women and two drummers
  • Hugh Tracey
Publication date
January 1958
Publisher
International Library of African Music

Abstract

"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

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