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Authors: Adija Nyankhomo and G. Coffee , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1958
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Nyanja , Songs, Chewa , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Kotakota District, Lake Nyasa, Nyasaland f-mw
Language: Nyanja, Chewa, Chichewa
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153933 , vital:39538 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR078-13
Description: A husband and wife went to hoe in their garden and the man had his axe with him. When they were there he started to play a game with her, forgetting he had his axe over his shoulder which fell off and cut him. So the woman when she got home quickly began to say that her husband had been cut by his axe in order to avoid people thinking that they had been playing in the garden. So she sang this song:- A! e! a! e!e! Nkhwangwa yatera Nkhwangwangwa letena mwendo." "A-eee. The axe has cut my husband, my husband, the axe has cut him in the leg." Story song.
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Date Issued: 1958

Authors: Adija Nyankhomo and G. Coffee , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1958
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Nyanja , Songs, Chewa , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Kotakota District, Lake Nyasa, Nyasaland f-mw
Language: Nyanja, Chewa, Chichewa
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153913 , vital:39537 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR078-12
Description: There was once a husband and wife and the and the man went out to drink beer and come back late at night. He left his young child at home, sleeping in bed. Now a wife with a very young child must not ne touched. But when he came back he started to touch her until the child woke up. So in the morning the wife went and told her friends about the shocking behaviour of her husband. Then they all came over to her home, stood outside and sang this song, mocking the husband for forgetting his good manners. "Natikhorowa n'ndiwo Yai yai yai, lelo, Yai lero ai mwanileka ndikale, Mwana akadagona, tsopano wanka ndipu m kuti taleka, Yai lero Yai lero ai." "Sweet potatoe leaves! Forbidden fruit at some of the time. You left me a long time a ago when the Child was still asleep and now he is awake and you say, "let me" No, no, no, not today." Story song.
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Date Issued: 1958

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