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Sekelele fawona tengwa ipya

- Group of Tumbuka men, Composer unknown, Tracey, Hugh

Mbaya mwana wane bamutya cimbwe

- Mbuluwundi, Ruben Tankadi, 5 Tumbuka men, Tracey, Hugh

Mbaya mwana wane bamutya cimbwe (Mbaya, my child, is called a hyena)

- Ruben Tankadi Mbuluwundi and group of 5 Tumbuka men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Ruben Tankadi Mbuluwundi and group of 5 Tumbuka men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Malawi , Tumbuka (African people)--Music , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Rumpi f-mw
  • Language: Tumbuka
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/140216 , vital:37849 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR054-06
  • Description: A man who was working away from home on the Copper Mines, had a girl sent to him to marry from his own village. But when she arrived she was so ugly he said: "Marry you, never! You look like a hyena!" So the girl went back and told her mother who rushed out of the house shouting to her husband in great hanger: "My child Mbaya has been called a hyena!" From what the Welfare officers say, it appears that this situation is a common experience on the Copperbelt where girls are frequently sent by their parents to get themselves married to their absent young men on the mines, with the same painful rebuff if not acceptable. Humorous song.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1957

Nkhendannga uteka ukwenka zeza (I was walking and found the grass moving)

- Ruben Tankadi Mbuluwundi and group of 5 Tumbuka men, Hugh Tracey

Sekelele tawona tengwa ipya

- Composer not specified, Group of Tumbuka men (Performers), Hugh Tracey

Walowela mawa

- Kachali, Zakaliya, Tracey, Hugh

  • Authors: Kachali, Zakaliya , Tracey, Hugh
  • Date: 1950-05-26
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Mzimba f-mw
  • Language: Tumbuka
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/211433 , vital:47614 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT177-D35.1 , Research no. D2B8
  • Description: Humorous song with Bango Board Zither accompaniment.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1950-05-26

Wadikulu wajikoma

- Shonga, Nezala, Tracey, Hugh

Walowela mawa

- Kachali, Zakaliya, Tracey, Hugh

  • Authors: Kachali, Zakaliya , Tracey, Hugh
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Mukotsama f-mw
  • Language: Tumbuka
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/185335 , vital:44366 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR189-10
  • Description: The singer presents an imaginary conversation between himself and his wife. He began to break into Chewa at the end of his song instead of Tumbuka. This was most amusing of the crowd, "My wife is drunk. She is always drunk." "My husband always complains about my cooking." "How are you today?" Humorous song with Bango board Zither
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1950

Walowela mowa

- Zakaliya Kachali, Performer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Chalo cha ku Zomba

- Tumbuka men and women, performer not specified, composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

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