Entoro y’omuhogo

  • Rusania with Nkole men
  • Hugh Tracey
Publication date
January 1950
Publisher
International Library of African Music

Abstract

This song recalls the beauty of the Ankole countryside where they wander over the downs, a nomadic people, herding their cattle and living like the Masai on blood and milk. The style of singing would appear to be more Hima than Bantu. Nostalgic song

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