Add to ORKG"This is a song, he said, which was sung by the relatitives of the dead chief mourning their great loss. "Take a basket, let us go to the funeral Chief Njolomole has died, he has died Njolomole." This song was sung when the father of the present Chief died in 1929 (March 12th). The baskets, it was explained, refered to the baskets in which the property of the dead chief was carried by the mourners for burial with the chief in his grave. The younger brother of the chief led the singing and the chief himself can be heard singing a verse. The chief's uncle and councillor Robert Gokozera claimed towards the end of the item. Funeral song
This group belonged to the Bena Shimba clan. As well as tipping and sometimes singing into their gou...
The sound of the women's feet can be heard on the hard dusty ground. "Honour" is used in the opposit...
"Flowers, flowers for a child to play with. My father died tragically at Makwiani, my mother stoops ...
This kind of song, they say, was sung at the gathering to remember a dead person. The Chief's towell...
Indigenous folk song of lament for the dead chief, Machatini, with singing, clapping and intermitten...
Indigenous folk song of lament for the dead chief, Machatini, with singing and brief yodelling
Njinga was a certain man who had a generous wife. When he died his widow married again and had much ...
Song praising the grand father of present chief who died and is accompanied by a Nanga trough zithe
This was sung at the death of the Ngoni Paramount Chief Mpezeni about 1942. The singers were not sur...
A tani (literally \u27cry\u27) is a funeral dirge for a person who recently died. It usually describ...
Wanga is well known as a singer and entertainer. He composed this song when the famous old chief Mum...
Indigenous folk mourning song with singing accompanied by 2 box chisanshi, 1 chisanshi-chinene, 2 we...
Indigenous folk song for post-burial obsequies, with singing accompanied by a guitar and a struck bo...
A song of mourning reminding the singers that they also will soon follow their dead friend. Mourning...
Legends in this part of Africa, around the great lakes are often told to a rippling instrumental acc...
This group belonged to the Bena Shimba clan. As well as tipping and sometimes singing into their gou...
The sound of the women's feet can be heard on the hard dusty ground. "Honour" is used in the opposit...
"Flowers, flowers for a child to play with. My father died tragically at Makwiani, my mother stoops ...
This kind of song, they say, was sung at the gathering to remember a dead person. The Chief's towell...
Indigenous folk song of lament for the dead chief, Machatini, with singing, clapping and intermitten...
Indigenous folk song of lament for the dead chief, Machatini, with singing and brief yodelling
Njinga was a certain man who had a generous wife. When he died his widow married again and had much ...
Song praising the grand father of present chief who died and is accompanied by a Nanga trough zithe
This was sung at the death of the Ngoni Paramount Chief Mpezeni about 1942. The singers were not sur...
A tani (literally \u27cry\u27) is a funeral dirge for a person who recently died. It usually describ...
Wanga is well known as a singer and entertainer. He composed this song when the famous old chief Mum...
Indigenous folk mourning song with singing accompanied by 2 box chisanshi, 1 chisanshi-chinene, 2 we...
Indigenous folk song for post-burial obsequies, with singing accompanied by a guitar and a struck bo...
A song of mourning reminding the singers that they also will soon follow their dead friend. Mourning...
Legends in this part of Africa, around the great lakes are often told to a rippling instrumental acc...
This group belonged to the Bena Shimba clan. As well as tipping and sometimes singing into their gou...
The sound of the women's feet can be heard on the hard dusty ground. "Honour" is used in the opposit...
"Flowers, flowers for a child to play with. My father died tragically at Makwiani, my mother stoops ...