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Amalume kuwayawa (Track)
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"Boys marry young girls. Whi is Lami going to marry? You will never have any food You're going to eat your mother My uncle is not settled For he thinks I am his wife." One woman claps gently in the background.
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Amalume (Track)
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"Uncle, uncle, uncle, drink your beer carefully. They who hate me, Eyae! They would put poison in my beer. Uncle drink your beer carefully."
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Ambiga (Track)
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The singer's face resembled the West African mask with extremely slanting eyes. He sang with his Mbira pressed against the side of his face giving a strange impression of a spirit out of the forest.
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Anawela Kokakola (Field Card)
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d) A certain girl liked coca-cola very much, but her brother who was looking after her was too fond of drinking beer to worry about giving her coca-cola.
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Anawela Kokakola (Track)
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d) A certain girl liked coca-cola very much, but her brother who was looking after her was too fond of drinking beer to worry about giving her coca-cola.
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Andisaguta (Field Card)
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The story of a woman who was driven away from the village as they said she was a 'witch' and her husband too rude. The common name for a person whose behaviour or presence is a cause of offence to the others in the community was a 'witch' as used in the mediaeval sense. 
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Andisaguta (Track)
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"I am not yet full I have not yet had enough But when I am full Then I will hit those women over there." A song sung in jest.
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Ansati Iwe u nganaye = That woman with you (Field Card)
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The singer's wife asked a tailor to make her a new fashioned blouse. He did so and she was very happy and delighted with her new blouse. The origin of the word 'Achikatao' is obscure, possibly from the Portuguese chita -- cotton print fabric or Chit ¢o -- cretonne.
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Ansati Iwe u nganaye = That woman with you (Track)
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That woman with you is not your wife. -- You have only borrowed her for the time being. Soon she will be taken by someone else.' A true sidelight on town life.
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