"Everyone despises me because I make love to ugly women." 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 ya moyo dance song for...
The singers of this song were all employed on the Kolwezi Copper mine, the most westerly of the grea...
Imihamilizo dance song played by Twa musicians for their Tutsi masters to dance to, with makondera h...
This somg is taken from an old Ngoni regimental song which would, in the old days, have been used on...
"We should eat together, but that does not mean we should share the same woman." The leader was dres...
"Our 'Johannesburg' band dances much better than all the others. We wear white clothes." Sung by a s...
This song was recorded by moonlight by a very gay and picturesquely dressed group of Xhosa people, y...
An old regimental song of the Ngoni fighting men during the days when they first came up into Nyasal...
The leader disapproved of the singing of the women who persisted in putting their black bourkas over...
One of the best known tunes in all the Shona area of Southern Rhodesia. It has been associated with ...
You are being burnt by the sun, you unfaithful woman." The leader has a very harsh voice no doubt th...
"There are many soilders among you who are ready to fight and capture big villages. The singers, man...
'Samandenga' or 'Samanyemba' frequently occurs in S.Rhodesian songs. In this case Samandenga is a fi...
"Ihubo", the song of the Mahindani Regiment. The Paramount Chief Sibuya has not done right in allowi...
This group of men were all members of the military band at Elizabethville. In spite of their daily p...
A song for Mutombok dance, also known as the death dance but is now danced when the Chief feels happ...
The singers of this song were all employed on the Kolwezi Copper mine, the most westerly of the grea...
Imihamilizo dance song played by Twa musicians for their Tutsi masters to dance to, with makondera h...
This somg is taken from an old Ngoni regimental song which would, in the old days, have been used on...
"We should eat together, but that does not mean we should share the same woman." The leader was dres...
"Our 'Johannesburg' band dances much better than all the others. We wear white clothes." Sung by a s...
This song was recorded by moonlight by a very gay and picturesquely dressed group of Xhosa people, y...
An old regimental song of the Ngoni fighting men during the days when they first came up into Nyasal...
The leader disapproved of the singing of the women who persisted in putting their black bourkas over...
One of the best known tunes in all the Shona area of Southern Rhodesia. It has been associated with ...
You are being burnt by the sun, you unfaithful woman." The leader has a very harsh voice no doubt th...
"There are many soilders among you who are ready to fight and capture big villages. The singers, man...
'Samandenga' or 'Samanyemba' frequently occurs in S.Rhodesian songs. In this case Samandenga is a fi...
"Ihubo", the song of the Mahindani Regiment. The Paramount Chief Sibuya has not done right in allowi...
This group of men were all members of the military band at Elizabethville. In spite of their daily p...
A song for Mutombok dance, also known as the death dance but is now danced when the Chief feels happ...
The singers of this song were all employed on the Kolwezi Copper mine, the most westerly of the grea...
Imihamilizo dance song played by Twa musicians for their Tutsi masters to dance to, with makondera h...
This somg is taken from an old Ngoni regimental song which would, in the old days, have been used on...