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Kumaji kumailo-mailo

- Boys at Dedza Secondary School, Hugh Tracey

Mande

- Group of Karanga men and women, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Group of Karanga men and women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Karanga (African people) , Folk songs, Shona , Folk music , Africa Zimbabwe Chibi District, Southern Rhodesia f-rh
  • Language: Shona, Karanga
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/154631 , vital:39756 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR082-16
  • Description: One of the Mashawi 9souls) dances. The Mujukwa are considered in the local mythology to represent the entities who act as go-betweens, or media, between man and the High-God: Especially in connection with their pleading for rain. Some would call them 'Angels'. The dances and songs of the Majukwa are therefore intended to concentrate attention upon aspect of social necessity. Rain, without which the people would perish. With the opening up of communications by white people the effects of draught and subsequent famine have been lessened and therefore the cult or belief in Majukwa and their functions has been proportianately diminished. A Majukwa dance with 3 Dumba drums, 1 Nyeri flute, leg rattles and clapping.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Musengu

- Saini Murira, Chingaipa Madzikuminga and Zhogi Muzengedza, Hugh Tracey

Kuklala pafupi (If it was near)

- Nazaro Ngoma and Chewa men, Hugh Tracey

Uhamba Kwa Mtombeni (If I leave Mtombeni, I do not say goodbye)

- Samuel Tabete, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Samuel Tabete , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Swazi , Folk music , Africa Eswatini Havelock Mine f-sq
  • Language: Swati
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/152677 , vital:39330 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR071-08
  • Description: "We intombi yazi khetela kwa mganami kwa sho umuntu. A ibanjwa ngamandla we mganami wam' kuyazithethelwa maa. U hamba kwa mtombeni a ngi valelisi we ma." "A girl choses for herself, friend, they say. She is not to be forced. You must speak for yourself. If I leave Mtombeni's house I do not say goodbye." Topical song with concertina.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Erythrina caffra

- Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)

Ode tate, kuseli kwaphili kuli njati (There is a buffalo)

- C. Banda and G. Phiri, Hugh Tracey

The expanding horizon : a geographical commentary upon routes, records, observations & opinions contained in selected documents concerning travel at the Cape, 1750-1800

- Forbes, Vernon S (Vernon Siegfried)

  • Authors: Forbes, Vernon S (Vernon Siegfried)
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Travelers -- South Africa , South Africa -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800
  • Language: English
  • Type: Thesis , Doctoral , PhD
  • Identifier: vital:4886 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1014908
  • Description: This study seeks to provide a geographical commentary upon documents relating to travel in the Cape during the second half of the eighteenth century. These documents include not only books of travel, but also travel journals, letters and maps both published and unpublished. They have been examined in the first place to ascertain what light they throw on the evolution of geographical ideas concerning the phenomena now capable of classification under the broad heading of physical geography. Secondly the have been viewed as part of the geography of travel and exploration which deals with routes, the identification of places, the explanation of place-names and the evolution of the map, or in its absence, of the mental picture of the regions reported on. Historical events are also considered, for the geographer can no more afford to ignore history than the historian dare cast a blind eye upon geography.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Ife totumika (We have been invited)

- Four Tumbuka women, Hugh Tracey

Kuku lu-lu-ku (The crowing of the cock)

- Kachama, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Kachama , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Dedza f-rh
  • Language: Nyanja/Mang'anja
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/155956 , vital:39935 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR088-16
  • Description: "The crowing of the cock, father, the cock crow. The people here, father, the cock crow. They like to deceive, father, to affect something tomorrow. At someone's village, father. Walking is like dancing, the cock crow." No doubt to the singers of this drinking song, walking home would indeed be similar to dancing after an all night party which only broke up at cock crow. Drinking song with clapping.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Ngwindingwindi ishumba inoruma (England is the lion that bites)

- Chief Takawarasha and group of Karanga men, Hugh Tracey

Inu A'Kachere (You Kachere)

- By elderly men at Kachere's village, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: By elderly men at Kachere's village , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Nyanja , Songs, Chewa , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Dedza, Central Nyasaland f-mw
  • Language: Nyanja, Chewa, Chichewa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153401 , vital:39446 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR076-10
  • Description: One of the songs said to have been sung after a tribal raid - a morality song after victory, so that the people will continue to be strong and not be thrown out of their country. It was sung when Europeans first entered the country about the end of the last century when Sir Harry Johnstone first ruled the country. "You! It is A Kachere who has increased the population of this country. There should not be prostitutes, it is forbidden or you will be thrown out by the white men." The Kachere mentioned in the song was the father of the present Chief who is about 70 years old. The song is no doubt derived from the old Nguni custom of purification after fighting. A fighting song with clapping.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Maye Maye Inesizema (Maye maye this is really hard work)

- Justina Shabangu and group of Swazi girls and 4 men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Justina Shabangu and group of Swazi girls and 4 men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Swazi , Folk music , Africa Eswatini Usutu Forest, Mbabane f-sq
  • Language: Swati
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/152564 , vital:39310 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR070-07
  • Description: This group of singers are planters from block A. 5, Usutu Forest. This is said to be one of the largest man made forests in the world. About 90,000 acres. "Maye, maye, inesizema sizema sendeni. Hamba juba bokhuluta pambili." O-ho everyone, my husband is sick. Fly on little dove, you will be plucked further on. Hoeing song.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

A statistical study of the errors involved in the sampling and chemical analysis of soils and plants, with particular reference to citrus and pineapples

- Steyn, Willem Johannes Abraham

  • Authors: Steyn, Willem Johannes Abraham
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Soil chemistry , Plants -- Analysis , Soils -- Analysis
  • Language: English
  • Type: Thesis , Doctoral , PhD
  • Identifier: vital:4506 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1013291
  • Description: 1. Accurate and reproducible methods for the determination of N and acid- extractable P in soils are described. The variations in N, P, and K found by intensive sampling of three different soil types are presented. 3. Suggestions for the adequate sampling of soils for various purposes arc given. 4. A study is presented of the preparative stages in leaf analysis (washing, drying, grinding and storage) as applied to citrus and pineapple leaf material. Likely errors are pointed out and procedures whereby these may be minimised are described. 5. A reliable wet-ashing procedure for obtaining leaf solutions is described. 6. Accurate and reproducible methods for the determination of total N, P,. K, Ca, Mg, Na, Fe, Mn, Zn and Cu in citrus and pineapple leaves are presented. 7. It is shown that diurnal variations in nutrient concentrations occur in citrus and pineapple leaves. 8. The variations in N, P, K, Ca, Mg, Na, Fe, Mn, Zn and Cu, occurring from tree to tree in 3 different Navel orange blocks are presented. It is shown that if all these elements are to be represented . to within 10% of the mean values on a 19 : 1 probability level, all the trees in the blocks would have to be sampled. Reasonable sampling procedures for various purposes are suggested. 9. The variations in N, P, K, Ca, Mg, Fe, Mn, Zn and Cu, occurring in 3 different Cayenne pineapple plantations are presented and described. Suitable sampling procedures are suggested.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Milisi

- Dance with nine tuned drums, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Dance with nine tuned drums , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Mpatsa f-mw
  • Language: Nyanja/Mang'anja
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/157924 , vital:40114 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR093-04
  • Description: The drums are weighted with castor oil bean paste. It is removed from the drum head immediately after playing, or, they say, it would rot the membrane. The tuning of the drums has to be done afresh each time. "Misili killed a buck, so the people were pleased to have the meat." Likhuba dance with eight tuned drums.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Yellowwood

- Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)

Kari muchipfuwa kana ziwa ne mwene (Only you can tell what you are thinking in your heart)

- Saini Murira, Chingaipa Madzikuminga and Zhogi Muzengedza, Hugh Tracey

Mai dale tawa tumbila (My darling went away)

- Agnes Maknwalo, Hugh Tracey

Weighing babies : All Saints Hospital, 1958

- Ingle, Pauline Cornwell, 1915-1999

Panzi paweni mayo (At other peoples village)

- C. Thipha, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: C. Thipha , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Dedza f-rh
  • Language: Nyanja/Mang'anja
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/155966 , vital:39936 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR088-17
  • Description: At another peoples villages it is better when you are alive. There used to be a house here. Why was it taken away? It is because you are too talkative." There seems to be some sound common sense about this song but somehow it escapes the singers whose minds have receded towrds the pleasures of trivialities. It is a good thing to have your wits about you when drinking away from home or you may be tempted to make such observations as I am sure there used to be a house here. Old boy, what has happened to it? And as the song implies make a fool of yourself. Drinking song with clapping.
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  • Date Issued: 1958
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