A song commonly used by the canoe on the lower Shire river, a large tributary of the Zambezi. It would seem to reflect the common anxiety of fisher folk everywhere, the fear that the boat and its crew may never come back. "Mose, you come back, come back, you return and my spirit will be at rest. If you go again, then you can go because I have seen your face. The sun is already high and you paddle slowly like a duck." Canoe song
A canoe paddling song by Wagenya fishermen led by Saidi Kikongo, accompanied by large and small slit...
A "reed ceremony" song, sung for the Mhlanga or reed ceremony. The words of the song imply that fath...
The song is about a man called Muleka Mwene Yombwe who refused to allow his wife to go down to the r...
The gist of the song is about a man who was drowning in the river, and he called on all his friends ...
When the Zambezi is in flood the ferry men cannot paddle their canoes across. They do this ferrying ...
Two singers were doing a pantomime of pulling a canoe over the sand. The munga tree is the one used ...
A fishing song sung on the way back from catching fish accompanied by drums and axes
The fishermen haul in their nets onto the shore and call to each other instructions and encoragement...
"You, the owner of the canoe, do not be mean with the fish you bring home. Share them with everyone ...
"If anyone steals my mangoes I will kill him." This song sung as the fishermen paddle their way home...
A song for Chief Kazembe, also used as a canoe song. These children demonstrate a typically Luunda o...
A song sung about launching a canoe for the first time sung by boys at the St. Croix Mission
The song recounts all the troubles of a bachelor. The Songe tribe is an offshoot of the great Luba g...
"Malona was warned of danger but she paid no attention and thus met with an accident." This song fol...
This song is sung by people after drinking on their way home; the crowd echoing the words of the two...
A canoe paddling song by Wagenya fishermen led by Saidi Kikongo, accompanied by large and small slit...
A "reed ceremony" song, sung for the Mhlanga or reed ceremony. The words of the song imply that fath...
The song is about a man called Muleka Mwene Yombwe who refused to allow his wife to go down to the r...
The gist of the song is about a man who was drowning in the river, and he called on all his friends ...
When the Zambezi is in flood the ferry men cannot paddle their canoes across. They do this ferrying ...
Two singers were doing a pantomime of pulling a canoe over the sand. The munga tree is the one used ...
A fishing song sung on the way back from catching fish accompanied by drums and axes
The fishermen haul in their nets onto the shore and call to each other instructions and encoragement...
"You, the owner of the canoe, do not be mean with the fish you bring home. Share them with everyone ...
"If anyone steals my mangoes I will kill him." This song sung as the fishermen paddle their way home...
A song for Chief Kazembe, also used as a canoe song. These children demonstrate a typically Luunda o...
A song sung about launching a canoe for the first time sung by boys at the St. Croix Mission
The song recounts all the troubles of a bachelor. The Songe tribe is an offshoot of the great Luba g...
"Malona was warned of danger but she paid no attention and thus met with an accident." This song fol...
This song is sung by people after drinking on their way home; the crowd echoing the words of the two...
A canoe paddling song by Wagenya fishermen led by Saidi Kikongo, accompanied by large and small slit...
A "reed ceremony" song, sung for the Mhlanga or reed ceremony. The words of the song imply that fath...
The song is about a man called Muleka Mwene Yombwe who refused to allow his wife to go down to the r...