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He mmalo kgaka (We want the guinea fowl)

- Keelediwe Modise and large group of men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Keelediwe Modise and large group of men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1959
  • Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Ngwaketse (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Botswana Kanye f-bs
  • Language: Tswana/Ngwaketse
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/162578 , vital:40948 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0108-11
  • Description: "We want the guinea fowl. We men have surrounded the guinea fowl at a ruined kraal. We fathers have surrounded the guinea fowl." It seems that guinea fowl are the special prequisite of the grown men. The younger ones are not supposed to eat the guinea fowl. In this song the guinea fowl stand for the young men who were hunting them and were supposed to bring them to the older men. The word "Sotswaneng" means a ruined kraal where a special sort of short spreading thorny plant invades such places. Hunting song
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  • Date Issued: 1959

He mmalo kgaka (We want the guinea fowl)

- Keelediwe Modise and large group of men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Keelediwe Modise and large group of men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1959
  • Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Ngwaketse (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Botswana Kanye f-bs
  • Language: Tswana/Ngwaketse
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/162569 , vital:40951 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0108-11
  • Description: "We want the guinea fowl. We men have surrounded the guinea fowl at a ruined kraal. We fathers have surrounded the guinea fowl." It seems that guinea fowl are the special prequisite of the grown men. The younger ones are not supposed to eat the guinea fowl. In this song the guinea fowl stand for the young men who were hunting them and were supposed to bring them to the older men. The word "Sotswaneng" means a ruined kraal where a special sort of short spreading thorny plant invades such places. Hunting song
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  • Date Issued: 1959

He mmalo khaka tshotsome (We have encircled the guinea-fowl)

- Dintsa Marumolo and about 60 young men, Hugh Tracey

He Mmuputsoane (Mmamoshage)

- Rautana Dinake and large group of men and women, Hugh Tracey

He mogoge goga o lere thokolo (Draw, draw us heavy drops of rain)

- Boyalenyana Simamma and large group of women, Hugh Tracey

He rea nyadiwa (We are despised)

- Serakalala Abotseng and group of 35 men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Serakalala Abotseng and group of 35 men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1959
  • Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Ngwaketse (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Botswana Kanye f-bs
  • Language: Tswana/Ngwaketse
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/162591 , vital:40953 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0108-12
  • Description: "We are despised although we are despised. Were are the bullets fired when cattle are captured. Makau wee!" "Makau wee!" is a regimental shout. The official praise is known as Mmoki. Sung when returning from a lion hunt. The following Maboko were spoken in honour of Chief Bathoen II, the present Chief Magogodi Mmolaeatshephe (the man who kills a serpent), spoke the Chief's praises. Hunting song
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  • Date Issued: 1959

He! MaRahia (Hey! Russians)

- Mamojela Lesojane and large group of Sotho women, Hugh Tracey

He! MaRahia (Hey! Russians)

- Mamojela Lesojane and large group of Sotho women, Hugh Tracey

Hela Banana (Hey! Girls!)

- Mamojela Letsipa, Mahanyane Rakaki, James Mofokeng and group of women, Hugh Tracey

Hela libenche (Hey, benches)

- Malefetsane Mosese and large group of men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Malefetsane Mosese and large group of men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1959
  • Subjects: Folk songs, Sotho , Sotho (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Lesotho Maseru f-lo
  • Language: Sotho
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/162220 , vital:40821 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0106-05
  • Description: "Hey, benches. Hey, lelingoana, benches are just enough for the Chiefs. I have no sister. I swearby stones. I swear by a rock of flint stone. Machache, Makotoko's place, Metolong. Machache is slippery because of the smoothness of the flat stones (slate). Remove your dress from the railway line, vagabond." Metolong, place near Machache. Lengae men's initiation song
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  • Date Issued: 1959

Hela, Koqo (Hey! Koqo)

- Malefetsane Mosese and large group of men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Malefetsane Mosese and large group of men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1959
  • Subjects: Folk songs, Sotho , Sotho (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Lesotho Maseru f-lo
  • Language: Sotho
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/162130 , vital:40761 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0105-11
  • Description: "Step slowly, you Tebele (Ndebele) youth. These people have come to listen to you and you make me sad. I always speak, Mohlakoana's son. I Thato's father, always speak. Step slowly, you Mohlakoana Tebele. I, Sekhaela's son, always speak." This song is an example of what can be done with a humming accompaniment. Lengae men's initiation song.
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  • Date Issued: 1959

Helele! Masupha

- Mapaballo Mabusane and group of women, Hugh Tracey

Hlophe

- Malebaka Moroke, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Malebaka Moroke , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1959
  • Subjects: Folk songs, Sotho , Sotho (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Lesotho Maseru f-lo
  • Language: Sotho
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/161890 , vital:40687 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0104-10
  • Description: "Death is painful! My husband has remained in Egypt. He is sitting in the water. He is eaten by the crabs. I did not know that that would be his fate. Pako, my child, is weeping." Her husband has gone North to the war (1939-1945). A divining song with clapping
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  • Date Issued: 1959

Ho ba bacha (To the youth)

- Men of Koali's village, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Men of Koali's village , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1959
  • Subjects: Folk songs, Sotho , Sotho (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Lesotho Berea f-lo
  • Language: Sotho
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/161167 , vital:40598 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0102-02
  • Description: "Matholoana, feed us and make us fat. Koali, the foundation of Masupha's kraal. The second chief to Motlalentoa! Spears! Where are you going? We, Makoali's people are weeping. We, Makoali's people are hungry. Habofanoe, feed us so that we may grow fat. We Matabele, are also your people." The name 'Matabele' is used by the Sotho to indicate any people who are not Sotho, notably the Nguni group of peoples. A number of Nguni have settled among the Sotho in small groups attaching themselves to the local chieftainships. This song was interrupted by several very long Lithoko praises with whistling and ululation accompanied by the men and women sitting around. The considerable length of the praises is not found tedious by the people rather the reverse. They are facinated by the flow of words. Mokorotlo riding song.
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  • Date Issued: 1959

Ho-ho-ho-ho ba bacha (To the young men)

- Seforo Mosese, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Seforo Mosese , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1959
  • Subjects: Folk songs, Sotho , Sotho (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Lesotho Maseru f-lo
  • Language: Sotho
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/162003 , vital:40747 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0105-03
  • Description: "Oh, the young men, the men of LeLerotholi's place are black and are called horse-eaters. Your guns are used for shooting pigeons, and your spears for hunting mice. Let Mpaleng's father speak. Youe child looks like its father, your child looks like its maternal uncle, I resemble Mokhehle of Mokoalibe. Dun-coloured with long tears. Dun-coloured and milked by women. The child of Seforo's wife is the one who provided a bachelor with a bed." Mokorotlo riding song.
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  • Date Issued: 1959

Hoba Bacha (To the young men)

- Silas Khiba and Sello Kaneli and about 20 Sotho men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Silas Khiba and Sello Kaneli and about 20 Sotho men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1959
  • Subjects: Folk songs, Sotho , Sotho (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Lesotho Maseru f-lo
  • Language: Sotho
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/161248 , vital:40609 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0103-01
  • Description: "To the young men. It seems to be the sign to make headrings for the young. Who are you and who am I? I am Mokalia Thole. Who are you and who am I? I have found monkeys. What were they doing? They were eating fruit. I asked them to give me some. And they gave me a mouthful. A mouthful, my grandchild! You praise yourself oh, these surprises!" Mokorotlo men's riding song with Lithoko praises, and wih stamping feet.
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  • Date Issued: 1959

Hololo we Bahurutshe Matebeyane (When we saw the Hurutshe approaching, we thought they were Ndebele)

- Daniel Ramokgadi and Sei Lobega, Hugh Tracey

Ishetlhana e Tswerwe ke seokamo

- Dintsa Marumolo and about 60 young men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Dintsa Marumolo and about 60 young men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1959
  • Subjects: Folk songs, Sotho , Folk songs, Tswana , Sotho-Tswana languages , Tswana (African people) , Sotho (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Lesotho Tshidilamolomo f-lo
  • Language: Tswana/Rolong
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/162367 , vital:40924 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0107-01
  • Description: The singers had just come back from initiation school. Here they use floor polish instead of the traditional red ochre with which to stain themselves. Several of them looked like Nilo Hamite men from Kenya and some of their songs also suggested the modality of those Northern tribes coincidence perhaps, but noticable. "The brown cow is held, caught and held prisoner and stands there all day. The other cows are also held fast in the same way. The brown yearling, our father's cow, ruled over nations while held flat." The words are allusive and symbolic. Male initiation song performed while in the veld.
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  • Date Issued: 1959

Kari muchipfuwa kanaziwa ne mwene wako (What is in your heart only yourself can tell)

- Murira, Madzikuminga, Muzengedza and Madera, Hugh Tracey

Ke nare e lona (I am a big Buffalo)

- Group of 20 men, Hugh Tracey

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