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Ode tate, kuseli kwaphili kuli njati (Track)
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It is notable that the Chewa men of this region have the lowest opinion of their wives and vice versa, the custom which allows immediate marriage without bride price (Dibolo) or any other formality except what is locally called 'snatching' has clearly led to this state of affairs and whether recent or of long stan...
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Ogo de zili ndi myendo (Field Card)
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It is notable that the Chewa men of this region have the lowest opinion of their wives and vice versa, the custom which allows immediate marriage without bride price (Dibolo) or any other formality except what is locally called 'snatching' has clearly led to this state of affairs and whether recent or of long stan...
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Ogo de zili ndi myendo (Track)
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It is notable that the Chewa men of this region have the lowest opinion of their wives and vice versa, the custom which allows immediate marriage without bride price (Dibolo) or any other formality except what is locally called 'snatching' has clearly led to this state of affairs and whether recent or of long stan...
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Omukungu nakanyagwe (Field Card)
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Eriya Bakwasa is an expert on the playing of the traditional horizontal harp. In this song he sings about a local sub-chief Umukunga, the Gambololo of Buhimba. During the 1939-45 war he was asked to recruit men for the Army but all he sent to the King's African Rifles was his own brother. "What a shame" the old ma...
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Owachitawala (Field Card)
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A song making fun of the Watchtower sect which holds its meetings every Monday and Wednesday in different private houses. The singers were alleged to be Catholic but that did not stop their singing the songs of the rival church. The word Chitawala is made up of the syllables of the English word heard by African Wa...
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Panzi paweni mayo (Field Card)
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"The crowing of the cock, father, the cock crow. The people here, father, the cock crow They like to deceive, father, to affect something tomorrow. At someone's village, father. Walking is like dancing, the cock crow." No doubt to the singers of this drinking song, walking home would indeed be similar to dancing a...
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Panzi paweni mayo (Track)
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"At other people's villages it is better when you are alive. There used to be a house here -- why was it taken away? It is because you are too talkative." There seems to be some sound common sense about this song but somehow it escapes the singers whose minds have receded towards the pleasures of trivialities. It...
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Para vilipo (Track)
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"If there is any left at all, give to a stranger." A drinking song with a genuine ring. What hope had the stranger, an outsider of getting a share?
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Paryi vilipo visika alendo amwe (Track)
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The syncopated clapping is provided by the somen. Both men and women form a circle and individual men prance out into the centre of the circle to do a pas seul.
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