Add to ORKGThe song is about a man who went home to his villag and fell ill. He wanted to go to hospital but his people tried to dissuade him. He replied, "I want to go to hospital and lie on a proper hospital bed" (mbeda). In the villages they lie on the ground. This song recounts the actual experience of the composer who was a boy working on the Northern Rhodesia Railways. Before these people were conquered by the Kololo they are said to have spoken the Siluyiana language. Topical son
The Chief Masula was taken to England with other Nyasaland chiefs for a few months visit in 1957. Th...
The song refers to the visit, in 1953, to the Southern province of a battalion of Northern Rhodesian...
This was recorded at the Wankie Colliery in Southern Rhodesia where the player had gone to work. Sel...
The voice of the singer is strongly affected by the vibrations of the drum and its mirliton. He sing...
The gist of the song is about a man who was drowning in the river, and he called on all his friends ...
The song recounts all the troubles of a bachelor. The Songe tribe is an offshoot of the great Luba g...
The song refers to the recruiting of the men of Ruanda-Urundi for work on the cooper mines of the Ka...
A song comforting a child whose father is away at war equivalent to the english song "Oh hush thee m...
This song refers to the custom of young people's sex play which normally results in marriage. Lita w...
"Nyankabila lost himself in a far off land. His father longs for his return." This shape of the inst...
A song touching upon a number of subjects. "When on the point of death you have no strength left to ...
Kireri was a godly man who died in a train accident between Kamapala and Nairobi. He believed that e...
Nthandazi is the name of a local labour recruting agency which has recruited her husband for work in...
The song is about a man who very much wanted to marry a certain girl; but had not enough cows to pay...
A certain man was travelling by train. When he thought of the girl to whom he was engaged to be marr...
The Chief Masula was taken to England with other Nyasaland chiefs for a few months visit in 1957. Th...
The song refers to the visit, in 1953, to the Southern province of a battalion of Northern Rhodesian...
This was recorded at the Wankie Colliery in Southern Rhodesia where the player had gone to work. Sel...
The voice of the singer is strongly affected by the vibrations of the drum and its mirliton. He sing...
The gist of the song is about a man who was drowning in the river, and he called on all his friends ...
The song recounts all the troubles of a bachelor. The Songe tribe is an offshoot of the great Luba g...
The song refers to the recruiting of the men of Ruanda-Urundi for work on the cooper mines of the Ka...
A song comforting a child whose father is away at war equivalent to the english song "Oh hush thee m...
This song refers to the custom of young people's sex play which normally results in marriage. Lita w...
"Nyankabila lost himself in a far off land. His father longs for his return." This shape of the inst...
A song touching upon a number of subjects. "When on the point of death you have no strength left to ...
Kireri was a godly man who died in a train accident between Kamapala and Nairobi. He believed that e...
Nthandazi is the name of a local labour recruting agency which has recruited her husband for work in...
The song is about a man who very much wanted to marry a certain girl; but had not enough cows to pay...
A certain man was travelling by train. When he thought of the girl to whom he was engaged to be marr...
The Chief Masula was taken to England with other Nyasaland chiefs for a few months visit in 1957. Th...
The song refers to the visit, in 1953, to the Southern province of a battalion of Northern Rhodesian...
This was recorded at the Wankie Colliery in Southern Rhodesia where the player had gone to work. Sel...
