Nyiti inkwekwezi (We are the star)
- Mushumbo Dlamini and the Star Brothers, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Mushumbo Dlamini and the Star Brothers , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Swazi , Swazi (African people) , Folk music , Africa Eswatini Havelock Mine, N. Eswatini f-sq
- Language: Swati
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153187 , vital:39417 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR075-03
- Description: "We are the star when the sun sets and when sun rises." (i.e. "We shine by night and by day.") The words are in Swati, English and Xhosa. Many such Small groups of singers give themselves fanciful names mostly in English and not in their own vernacular. Topical song (Mbude style).
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
- Authors: Mushumbo Dlamini and the Star Brothers , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Swazi , Swazi (African people) , Folk music , Africa Eswatini Havelock Mine, N. Eswatini f-sq
- Language: Swati
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153187 , vital:39417 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR075-03
- Description: "We are the star when the sun sets and when sun rises." (i.e. "We shine by night and by day.") The words are in Swati, English and Xhosa. Many such Small groups of singers give themselves fanciful names mostly in English and not in their own vernacular. Topical song (Mbude style).
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
Imiziyabola kaNgwane (Kraals are being destroyed)
- Large group of Swazi men, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Large group of Swazi men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Swazi , Folk music , Africa Ewatini Entonjeni, Pigg's Peak f-sq
- Language: Swati
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/152455 , vital:39280 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR069-07
- Description: "Imiziyabola kangwane ngendzaba yempi Uyexa jaha wasalele kuyichitisi miti nasise nyakathwo." "Kraals are being destroyed in the country of the Ngwane (Swaziland), because of the war. You understand, you young men, you who stayed behind to destroy our villages while we were up north." (This seems to refer to a faction fight when the houses of the soilders up north were burnt while they were away). Umgubo group song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
- Authors: Large group of Swazi men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Swazi , Folk music , Africa Ewatini Entonjeni, Pigg's Peak f-sq
- Language: Swati
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/152455 , vital:39280 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR069-07
- Description: "Imiziyabola kangwane ngendzaba yempi Uyexa jaha wasalele kuyichitisi miti nasise nyakathwo." "Kraals are being destroyed in the country of the Ngwane (Swaziland), because of the war. You understand, you young men, you who stayed behind to destroy our villages while we were up north." (This seems to refer to a faction fight when the houses of the soilders up north were burnt while they were away). Umgubo group song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
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