"We only play our Budongo for the big people. They are good instruments and we come from Bugabula. Oh, the Budongo music is enchanting!". Sets of these instruments are played by a number of young men together. For over 400 years this type of music has facinated Africans and possibly for far longer. Topical song, with 8 Budongo Likembe and 1 flat Nsaasi tin rattle (12.54-
This set of xylophone notes is played by five men, two on the one side and there on the other side o...
This instrument usually called Bangwe among the Yao is here called Bango. Simple song in typical vei...
Most of the instruments I heard were percussive. There were the ordinary tomtom and drum, and some e...
"The barren woman is not easy to keep as a wife as she only wastes your money." A very commonly expr...
The notes of this instrument had holes pierced at one end to enable them to be fixed to the banana s...
This set of Dongo Likembe is a copy of similar sets used further west by the Soga. These in turn the...
"Some young women are so beautiful we cannot do without them. We are very proud to be playing our Bu...
The notes of this instrument had holes pierced at one end to enable them to be fixed to the banana s...
This instrument usually called Bangwe among the Yao is here called Bango. "It is good to walk along ...
This instrument had four rows of red beads tied across the notes which rattled as each note below it...
These Ngombi Likembe (Mbira) are played with the instrument slung from the players shoulders. They a...
Waikova is a beautiful and highly coloured bird, they explained, but is more likely to be the common...
During my stay with the Chokwe in 19561 swam in an atmosphere of music and dance, in the most varied...
Music in Barotseland (the country covering most of the Zambezi Valley northwest of the Victoria Fall...
This instrument usually called Bangwe among the Yao is here called Bango. Simple song in typical vei...
This set of xylophone notes is played by five men, two on the one side and there on the other side o...
This instrument usually called Bangwe among the Yao is here called Bango. Simple song in typical vei...
Most of the instruments I heard were percussive. There were the ordinary tomtom and drum, and some e...
"The barren woman is not easy to keep as a wife as she only wastes your money." A very commonly expr...
The notes of this instrument had holes pierced at one end to enable them to be fixed to the banana s...
This set of Dongo Likembe is a copy of similar sets used further west by the Soga. These in turn the...
"Some young women are so beautiful we cannot do without them. We are very proud to be playing our Bu...
The notes of this instrument had holes pierced at one end to enable them to be fixed to the banana s...
This instrument usually called Bangwe among the Yao is here called Bango. "It is good to walk along ...
This instrument had four rows of red beads tied across the notes which rattled as each note below it...
These Ngombi Likembe (Mbira) are played with the instrument slung from the players shoulders. They a...
Waikova is a beautiful and highly coloured bird, they explained, but is more likely to be the common...
During my stay with the Chokwe in 19561 swam in an atmosphere of music and dance, in the most varied...
Music in Barotseland (the country covering most of the Zambezi Valley northwest of the Victoria Fall...
This instrument usually called Bangwe among the Yao is here called Bango. Simple song in typical vei...
This set of xylophone notes is played by five men, two on the one side and there on the other side o...
This instrument usually called Bangwe among the Yao is here called Bango. Simple song in typical vei...
Most of the instruments I heard were percussive. There were the ordinary tomtom and drum, and some e...