Chief Nambela's councillor was calling his children to go along home with him to the next district of Baluvale at the head of the Zambesi river. The rhythm struck on the bottle is the same familiar pattern // 1,2,3,1-2,1,2,1-2 // found all through the southern Congo. Sikinta dance with bootle struck with 6" nai
"We are greeting you all. Our 'Gwelo' Band will dance different steps for you." Many of these groups...
A dance song for Lusembe dance which is played at special tribe occassions accompanied by drums
"Joni Meka promised to marry Mary-and married her." The bottle rhythm so common in south central Afr...
Although the slit drum, or gong, is used for sending messages among this Congo tribe which lives bes...
The drums set the basic rhythm and the song is led by a woman who occassionally breaks off her song ...
"The woman of the Sikinta." The Sinkinta dance is said to be the favourite Luunda dance of the prese...
This was probably composed long ago when the people of Mzilikazi were being driven out of the Transv...
Chikele Kele is the alternative name for the Katchatcha mbira. The seven reeds are tuned with paste ...
The Chisanzhi Mbira is the traditional type of the district: the basket rattle is a well-known woven...
This group came from the swamps near lake Bangwelu and belonged to the Lumbo section of the Aushi tr...
Mongonika sang the solo phrases to this dance which is called by the same name as himself. He is a c...
An attractive dance by young soilders whose tribe has the local reputation of being amongst the most...
The slit drum is called mutumba (the canoe) and the cylindrical drum is Nguma. This group is situate...
The Lunda or Luunda people came into the territory which is now N. Rhodesia from the Congo. They now...
The rhythm of the struck bottle contains 12 pulses instead of the usual 16. Few popular tunes anywhe...
"We are greeting you all. Our 'Gwelo' Band will dance different steps for you." Many of these groups...
A dance song for Lusembe dance which is played at special tribe occassions accompanied by drums
"Joni Meka promised to marry Mary-and married her." The bottle rhythm so common in south central Afr...
Although the slit drum, or gong, is used for sending messages among this Congo tribe which lives bes...
The drums set the basic rhythm and the song is led by a woman who occassionally breaks off her song ...
"The woman of the Sikinta." The Sinkinta dance is said to be the favourite Luunda dance of the prese...
This was probably composed long ago when the people of Mzilikazi were being driven out of the Transv...
Chikele Kele is the alternative name for the Katchatcha mbira. The seven reeds are tuned with paste ...
The Chisanzhi Mbira is the traditional type of the district: the basket rattle is a well-known woven...
This group came from the swamps near lake Bangwelu and belonged to the Lumbo section of the Aushi tr...
Mongonika sang the solo phrases to this dance which is called by the same name as himself. He is a c...
An attractive dance by young soilders whose tribe has the local reputation of being amongst the most...
The slit drum is called mutumba (the canoe) and the cylindrical drum is Nguma. This group is situate...
The Lunda or Luunda people came into the territory which is now N. Rhodesia from the Congo. They now...
The rhythm of the struck bottle contains 12 pulses instead of the usual 16. Few popular tunes anywhe...
"We are greeting you all. Our 'Gwelo' Band will dance different steps for you." Many of these groups...
A dance song for Lusembe dance which is played at special tribe occassions accompanied by drums
"Joni Meka promised to marry Mary-and married her." The bottle rhythm so common in south central Afr...