"We should eat together, but that does not mean we should share the same woman." The leader was dressed up in his dancing kit, with feather head dress, red ochre on the face and rag dress. The singers were workers on the Mwadui diamond mines, recruited locally. The song features a character whom they call Sajeni Meja (Sergeant Major) no doubt on account of the fact that several of them served for a while in the K.A.R., the Kings' African Rifles. During the singing they call out the familiar cry used by the soilders of the King's African Rifles. The moral problems of the disintegrated family and tribal life present themselves at every turn and especially in the towns or industrial areas where large bodies of men are attracted to work. Hiyari...
This somg is taken from an old Ngoni regimental song which would, in the old days, have been used on...
The singers of this song were all employed on the Kolwezi Copper mine, the most westerly of the grea...
This type of singing accompanies the Kwaya dance, a speciality of the Shangaan tribesmen from the lo...
"Everyone despises me because I make love to ugly women." The leader was dressed up in his dancing k...
"Our 'Johannesburg' band dances much better than all the others. We wear white clothes." Sung by a s...
"There are many soilders among you who are ready to fight and capture big villages. The singers, man...
The leader disapproved of the singing of the women who persisted in putting their black bourkas over...
An old regimental song of the Ngoni fighting men during the days when they first came up into Nyasal...
This group of men were all members of the military band at Elizabethville. In spite of their daily p...
The singers explained "The 'Hanzi bomu bomu' song is our latest composition which is being sung all ...
'Samandenga' or 'Samanyemba' frequently occurs in S.Rhodesian songs. In this case Samandenga is a fi...
Imihamilizo dance song played by Twa musicians for their Tutsi masters to dance to, with makondera h...
The thin "blankets" of Kaffir sheeting dyed with washing blue peculiar to this district were much wo...
The leader disapproved of the singing of the women who persisted in putting their black bourkas over...
The drum happened to be a Chokwe drum and was borrowed by this Luba group. "I do not have to call a ...
This somg is taken from an old Ngoni regimental song which would, in the old days, have been used on...
The singers of this song were all employed on the Kolwezi Copper mine, the most westerly of the grea...
This type of singing accompanies the Kwaya dance, a speciality of the Shangaan tribesmen from the lo...
"Everyone despises me because I make love to ugly women." The leader was dressed up in his dancing k...
"Our 'Johannesburg' band dances much better than all the others. We wear white clothes." Sung by a s...
"There are many soilders among you who are ready to fight and capture big villages. The singers, man...
The leader disapproved of the singing of the women who persisted in putting their black bourkas over...
An old regimental song of the Ngoni fighting men during the days when they first came up into Nyasal...
This group of men were all members of the military band at Elizabethville. In spite of their daily p...
The singers explained "The 'Hanzi bomu bomu' song is our latest composition which is being sung all ...
'Samandenga' or 'Samanyemba' frequently occurs in S.Rhodesian songs. In this case Samandenga is a fi...
Imihamilizo dance song played by Twa musicians for their Tutsi masters to dance to, with makondera h...
The thin "blankets" of Kaffir sheeting dyed with washing blue peculiar to this district were much wo...
The leader disapproved of the singing of the women who persisted in putting their black bourkas over...
The drum happened to be a Chokwe drum and was borrowed by this Luba group. "I do not have to call a ...
This somg is taken from an old Ngoni regimental song which would, in the old days, have been used on...
The singers of this song were all employed on the Kolwezi Copper mine, the most westerly of the grea...
This type of singing accompanies the Kwaya dance, a speciality of the Shangaan tribesmen from the lo...