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These songs were taken during the actual grinding of millet into meal outside a hut. The millet was a fine brown variety known as Munga in Rhodesia. These small work songs are sometimes well known by everyone in the village and commonly used by the women as they grind their corn on the stone outside their hut, or they are individual compositions without a name and with few words to the lyrics.

The baby cries' -- really means the bride. 'My little daughter was married too early, as she was still too young.'

A dance for festive occasions. The Buudu is a Bantu tribe which has moved across westwards from the Ruwenzori mountains about 300 miles to the present locality. They are unusually dark-skinned for Bantu and use a variety of musical instruments, relying mostly on slit drums for their dance music. Slit drums are common because large timber is plentiful but cattle or antelope skins rare for the making of membranes. The membranes of their conical dru... A dance for festive occasions. The Buudu is a Bantu tribe which has moved across westwards from the Ruwenzori mountains about 300 miles to the present locality. They are unusually dark-skinned for Bantu and use a variety of musical instruments, relying mostly on slit drums for their dance music. Slit drums are common because large timber is plentiful but cattle or antelope skins rare for the making of membranes. The membranes of their conical drums are therefore usually made from elephant ears. Show more Show less

A tune after the style of the 'Makolwa' (converts to Christianity) with all the simplicity of melody - lack of sublety and false (iambic) accent. It is a clever skit on the style of performance introduced by the teachers into most African schools.