Kahuru ngoma ayo mapmanda (Rabbit plays the drum)
- Authors: B. Makariki and 3 boys , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Luba (African people) , Kaonde (African people) , Folk music , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Kasempa f-za
- Language: Kaonde
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/139261 , vital:37720 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0047-06
- Description: The song is sung for the rabbit to dance. This appears to be a traditional verse. Other 4 young boys said they added a few words and names of countries like "India", just to make the verse interesting. Adolescent verses.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Kyabula wa in kande Mpuya (You paddler of the canoe, save me)
- Authors: R. Chimengwa and 5 Kaonde men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Luba (African people) , Kaonde (African people) , Folk music , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Solwezi f-za
- Language: Kaonde
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/139241 , vital:37718 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0047-05
- Description: The gist of the song is about a man who was drowning in the river, and he called on all his friends to come and save him. His canoe was drifiting away and he could not swim. This song, they said, was used when going to raid the Lozi tribe manay years ago, before Europeans came to the country in the nineteenth century. Fighting song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Yarira ngosa (Ngosa declares Adolescent verses)
- Authors: B. Makariki and 3 boys , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Luba (African people) , Kaonde (African people) , Folk music , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Kasempa f-za
- Language: Kaonde
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/139292 , vital:37723 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0047-07
- Description: Ngosa declares that he has just come from Ndola where he has seen a fine caterpillar tractor. Ngosa tells his friend about this tractor and goes back himself to Ndola. "On your way back, replies his friend, convey our greetings to Teresa who lives in the Lamba country." The pre occupation of small boys with the shape of new motoe cars and other pieces of machinery such as tractors, appears to be shared by African boys as well. Adolescent verses.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957