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Ngibanjwe sigebengu sentombazana swazini (I made love to a girl who already had a lover)

- Group of 10 young Swazi men, Hugh Tracey

Nginyengwe luyengwe babe (I have been decived by a deceiver)

- Lompahlo Dlamini (women of about 28 years), Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Lompahlo Dlamini (women of about 28 years) , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Swazi , Folk music , Africa Eswatini Emkhuzweni, Northern District f-sq
  • Language: Swati
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/152807 , vital:39344 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR072-09
  • Description: "Intombi izonile kaNgwane. Ubongiyehla babe Ngubani lontshitshinpondo, Ayinihe emashangane?" "A girl has spoiled herself in KaNgwane. Father, you should leave me alone. You, who changes a pound note and gives it to the Shangaans?" In this song the performer creates a buzzing effect by holding the beater grass against the vibrating string of the bow. It is an interesting melody. Topical song with Makweyana musical bow, stressed and gourd resonated.
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Ngitowucelinkhoto nahojaba (I have come to ask for admission from thr groom's mother)

- Lomadlozi Dlamini and group of Swazi women, Hugh Tracey

Ngoma dze ngororombe

- Sani Madera, Hugh Tracey

Ngoma ka lo induna (The Induna's song)

- Isaac Lubisi and 5 Swazi men, Hugh Tracey

Ngoma yababa kutamba nayo (Father's music for dancing with the spirits)

- Stephen Runeso Gumbo, Hugh Tracey

Ngoneni ngoneni bakithi (What have I done in Mataffin?)

- Roselina Ndohle and Juana Nkosi, Hugh Tracey

Ngoza (The disobedient girl)

- Elias Mengezi and Chewa boys, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Elias Mengezi and Chewa boys , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Nyanja , Songs, Chewa , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Kongwa, Dowa, Central Nyasaland f-mw
  • Language: Nyanja, Chewa, Chichewa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153980 , vital:39550 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR079-03
  • Description: A man had a disobedient child named Ngonza, who would not do the work her father or mother gave her to do. The mother put her into a mortar and pounded her into powder and then threw her away. She was carried away to the lake by the rain. Ngoza's younger sister went to the lake side together with other children. All the others picked up their pots but Ngoza's sister could not and sang her song, crying for Ngoza to come and help her. Ngoza, having been made whole again by a crocodile to be his wife, came out of the water to help her sister. The village people then came to catch Ngoza and took her home, but the crocodile dug a hole from the water underground all the way to the village and took Ngoza back again. Story song (Nthanu).
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Nguwo yanga (My cloth)

- Young Chewa boys and girls, Hugh Tracey

Ngwasi (Fish eagle)

- 3 Yao women, Hugh Tracey

Ngwenyama usenta lunya kuze (The Paramount Chief has not done right)

- Group of Swazi men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Group of Swazi men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Swazi , Folk music , Africa Ewatini Pigg's Peak f-sq
  • Language: Swati
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/152385 , vital:39272 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR069-01
  • Description: "Ihubo", the song of the Mahindani Regiment. The Paramount Chief Sibuya has not done right in allowing the Europeans to create the Ngonini Estates of Mbhanbadane. The story giving rise to the song is that certain African employees of the "Ngonini" estates seduced the wives of other men of neighbouring villages, who then declared that the paramount chief had done wrong in allowing the "Ngonini Estates" to settle there at Mbhambadane. Umgubo regimental song.
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Ngwindingwindi ishumba inoruma (England is the lion that bites)

- Chief Takawarasha and group of Karanga men, Hugh Tracey

Nijurireni

- W. Theu, Tembuka boys, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: W. Theu , Tembuka boys , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Tonga (Nyasa) , Songs, Chewa , Chewa (African people) , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Musical instruments , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Rumpi f-mw
  • Language: Tumbuka , Chewa, Chichewa, Nyanja , Tonga (Nyasa)
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/184967 , vital:44294 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR187-18
  • Description: There was once a child who was sent to bring food to her father in his hut. She asked to come in and he first asked her what relish she had brought; she told him vegetables but she was sent back again to teh kitchen. Each time she came with vegetables she was sent away until the relish provided was meat. He did not want beans and vegetables, only meat-the greedy creature! "Open for me, Ha-he! Open, open ndera ndera As you say, open for me, what have you brought? I have brought porridge. What is the relish? The relish is beans. If the relish is beans, go and eat with your mother! The relish is vegetables. Go and eat with your mother. The relish is meat! Come inside, come inside." Story song
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Nikhonyowa (Nikhonyowa is my friend)

- Sitori Malindi and Dailimi Likluva, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Sitori Malindi and Dailimi Likluva , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Chewa , Lomwe (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Mkanda f-mw
  • Language: Lomwe
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/160697 , vital:40500 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR098-15
  • Description: "Nikhonyowa, I want to take you, for my friend. My mother in Muthollolla." The Lomwe delight in singing with their special friends and no doubt the originator of this song had chosen Nikhonyowa to sing with him. Mothollola is the name of a village beyond Mlanje mountain in Portuguese territory from where he came over to Nyasaland as so many Lomwe have done, about 200,000 in the last 10 to 20 years. Party song with clapping.
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Nimati ndikaone acete (I wanted to go and see Cete)

- Mavuto Mlanzi, Hugh Tracey

Njala Makono (Famine this year)

- Sergent Deza and a friend, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Sergent Deza and a friend , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Yao (African people) , Arts, Malawi , Folk music , Africa Malawi Zomba, Police Headquarters, Central Nyasaland f-mw
  • Language: Yao
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/154721 , vital:39768 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR083-06
  • Description: The two friends sit on the ground close together and sing into each other's faces with great abandon, loving every moment of it. This style of intricate singing appears to be almost unique to their tribe. "There is famine this year. My wife, why do you cook too much food? Don't worry yourself I know there is a famine this year, but don't worry. Song for initiation of boys, with clapping
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Njinga ailepele (The bicycle)

- Men and women of Pemba Village, Hugh Tracey

Njinga yalowa (Njinga is dead)

- M. S. Ngomwa and six Mang'anja boys, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: M. S. Ngomwa and six Mang'anja boys , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Port Herald f-mw
  • Language: Nyanja/Mang'anja
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/158131 , vital:40151 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR093-10
  • Description: Njinga was a certain man who had a generous wife. When he died his widow married again and had much trouble with the second husband. So thinking of Njinga she used to sing in her sorrow. "Njinga is dead alas." It is notable that the words of many African songs are only loosely associated with the ceremony in hand. There may have been some close local association at one time which has now escaped their memory and tradition has taken over. "Njinga is dead. Njinga is dead. Alas ee. Mother help me. Njinga is dead. Funeral song (during the burial ceremony). Tin used as drums.
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Nkamuona nkadamphwetheka (If I see him I will hurt him)

- E. J. Mbewe and I. K. Mwale, Hugh Tracey

Nkhanu (The crab)

- Miriam Nyalongwe and Chewa women, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Miriam Nyalongwe and Chewa women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Chewa , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Kasungu f-mw
  • Language: Nyanja/Chewa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/159667 , vital:40325 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR095-13
  • Description: There was once a crab which was trying to eat the husks of millet and the owner drove it away. When it went back into the water it told its mother that people were driving it away. The mother said "Leave them, they will come to draw water and we will see them." But when they came to draw water they found the crab telling its mother and they were afraid and ran back to the village to tell the boys who came with their bows and arrows to kill the crab, as they were afraid the crab might in some way take its revenge for being denied food. Story.
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