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Khanya kude (Track)
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Fanisa Mwamitwa is the 'Sati WaHosi', the wife of the Chief. The connection between the meaning of the words of the song and its description as a praise song is not clear. "Khanye kude wawula niudawaze mashanga. Mluwetela wena minda twaze mwana warila." "Bright light (from afar) they mean you, Mindáwazé, worryso...
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Kineneko (Track)
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"Mangi (chief) you are fond of your people. If the Mangi loves you You should love both your friends and enemies."
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Kishwaga (Track)
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When he fights he does not retreat but threatens all the chiefs.' The trough zithers are like long bowls of wood with the strings stretched along over the hollow of the trough. One length of string is used for all 7 notes. If one goes out of tune the tuning must be restarted from the highest note downwards, the fr...
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Kitwekize kya Winyi Part II (Track)
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One of the traditional methods of reciting praises in this country is to manipulate a marionette, in this case the skin with head and legs of a small civet cat. The animal was decorated with bead necklets and a small bell which can be heard during the recitation by the two men. The leader manipulated the civet cat...
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Kyebambi (Track)
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The greater African chiefs would, in the old days, always have their court musicians to perform special functions, one of which was to play early in the morning to waken the Chief's household. This duty was performed in the past by the Ntimbo drummers for the Mukama of Bunyoro. ... The little drums, with membranes...
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Lamnandi ugolohlang (Track)
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Citaumvano, the singer, praises Miss Gertie Carter's store. Miss Carter is a well-known and much respected figure in the district, her father having established the store about 1870, about 25 years before the annexation of Pondoland.
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Lithoko (I) (Track)
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Several bodies of horsemen approached Chief George Moshesh's village during the recording session, and each one had its own Seroki, or praiser, who dismounted and spoke the chief's praises before the group joined the rest of the people present.
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Lithoko (II) (Track)
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Several bodies of horsemen approached Chief George Moshesh's village during the recording session, and each one had its own Seroki, or praiser, who dismounted and spoke the chief's praises before the group joined the rest of the people present.
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Lithoko (III) (Track)
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Several bodies of horsemen approached Chief George Moshesh's village during the recording session, and each one had its own Seroki, or praiser, who dismounted and spoke the chief's praises before the group joined the rest of the people present.
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Lithoko tsa hae (Track)
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These praises were personal and referred to the speaker and opened the divining procedure which followed. The small group of diviners was composed of a man and two women all wearing their traditional diviners costume and beads. The older woman wore a skin cap
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