Sung in the old Ngoni style. The Chief calls one out towards the end of the song that his people are the ones who came from the Swati, down South (with the Gomani section of the Ngoni). This section migrated from Natal either just before or during the Shaka wars. "Some had brought fighting men to terrify me, but could do nothing. But here we still live and you could do nothing to us." Two fighting songs
This item was recorded in the Eastern Transvaal where the performers had come to work on a citrus es...
One of the songs said to have been sung after a tribal raid - a morality song after victory, so that...
Wanga and Mukolwe went together to the hill Namurinya where they defeated the people and took the la...
Fighting songs which date back to the days when the Shangaans were raiding from the south-east and t...
This is an old fighting song. The Chief sang this with his leopard tail stick held aloft. Umrobo old...
This song is known over the whole lenght and breadth of the Karanga country. It was first sung, they...
"Mother, I am born for the assegai. Come out with the assegais people of Dikgale, Come out with the ...
An old regimental song of the Ngoni fighting men during the days when they first came up into Nyasal...
This somg is taken from an old Ngoni regimental song which would, in the old days, have been used on...
"We have killed the people of the Kalahari." Makgalagadi is a team of contempt apparently used by so...
"The people who protect this country are away fighting." This refers to old tribal fighting before t...
This song were sung in the old days after raiding parties when the Kipsigis would go out to steal ca...
"I failed to fight the Masai." The Masai are the famous pastoralists who live on the far side of the...
This song were sung in the old days after raiding parties when the Kipsigis would go out to steal ca...
The gist of the song is about a man who was drowning in the river, and he called on all his friends ...
This item was recorded in the Eastern Transvaal where the performers had come to work on a citrus es...
One of the songs said to have been sung after a tribal raid - a morality song after victory, so that...
Wanga and Mukolwe went together to the hill Namurinya where they defeated the people and took the la...
Fighting songs which date back to the days when the Shangaans were raiding from the south-east and t...
This is an old fighting song. The Chief sang this with his leopard tail stick held aloft. Umrobo old...
This song is known over the whole lenght and breadth of the Karanga country. It was first sung, they...
"Mother, I am born for the assegai. Come out with the assegais people of Dikgale, Come out with the ...
An old regimental song of the Ngoni fighting men during the days when they first came up into Nyasal...
This somg is taken from an old Ngoni regimental song which would, in the old days, have been used on...
"We have killed the people of the Kalahari." Makgalagadi is a team of contempt apparently used by so...
"The people who protect this country are away fighting." This refers to old tribal fighting before t...
This song were sung in the old days after raiding parties when the Kipsigis would go out to steal ca...
"I failed to fight the Masai." The Masai are the famous pastoralists who live on the far side of the...
This song were sung in the old days after raiding parties when the Kipsigis would go out to steal ca...
The gist of the song is about a man who was drowning in the river, and he called on all his friends ...
This item was recorded in the Eastern Transvaal where the performers had come to work on a citrus es...
One of the songs said to have been sung after a tribal raid - a morality song after victory, so that...
Wanga and Mukolwe went together to the hill Namurinya where they defeated the people and took the la...