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Amano yabula noko wemwana niwe nyatumbe? (Your mother is not very wise, how do you expect to be any wiser?)

- Stephen Tsotsi Kasumali and friends, Hugh Tracey

BaNakatekwe

- Stephen Tsotsi Kasumali and 2 friends, Hugh Tracey

Kabula nina kamushalila (I have no mother)

- Stephen Tsotsi Kasumali and 2 friends, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Stephen Tsotsi Kasumali and 2 friends , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Ushi (African people) , Music--Zambia , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Kitwe f-za
  • Language: Aushi , Lamba
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/140076 , vital:37830 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR053-05
  • Description: 'I have no mother. No matter what I do, whether I pray or whatever I do, I am alone." The singer is a wandering performer who earns his living by singing popular songs of his own composition which give him plenty of scope to introduce local gossip between verses. He is assisted by 2 or 3 friends who share his bohemian life wandering from compound to compound along the Copperbelt. His songs, though often rhythmic, are frequently based upon the slightest of melodies as in this case. This song is sung partly in the local Lamba language - Although Tsotsi Kasumali himself is an Aushi. Lament with guitar and bottle.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Kazembe mayo (Alas for Kazembe)

- Steven Tsotsi Kasumali and 2 friends, Hugh Tracey

Kontae iya konta (Kontae)

- Stephen Tsotsi Kasumali and 2 friends, Hugh Tracey

Marita ku Mampampa (Marita from Mamampa))

- Stephen Tsotsi Kasumali and 2 friends, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Stephen Tsotsi Kasumali and 2 friends , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Ruund (African people) , Ushi (African people) , Congo (Democratic Republic) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Kitwe f-za
  • Language: Ruund
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/139967 , vital:37818 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR053-09
  • Description: "Marita is just like a diamond - You must understand what I am thinking about. Marita's eyes are white, and I wish she would marry me. I once visited her at her village Mampampa-and oh, I wish she would marry. It does not matter if I have to pay all of ten pounds on her because I love her." The whitness of Marita's eyes no doubt refers to her clear eyes free from the pink tinge which so frequently colours the eyes of those who either drink too much or smoke marijuana.Love song with guitar and bottle.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Mwaiseni mwe balendo (Welcome visitors)

- Stephen Tsotsi Kasumali and 3 friends, Hugh Tracey

Nalina mayo (I had a mother)

- Stephen Tsotsi Kasumali and 2 friends, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Stephen Tsotsi Kasumali and 2 friends , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Ruund (African people) , Ushi (African people) , Congo (Democratic Republic) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Kitwe f-za
  • Language: Aushi
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/140003 , vital:37823 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR053-13
  • Description: 'I had a mother and she died. She was killed by people who envied me. Women are no good. They leave their own husbands to go and flirt with the loafers in the street. When I have no cash on me everyone laughs at me. One day I went out into the bush hunting and I fired at some guinea fowls but I missed. So people laughed at me because I had nothing to eat at home." "This song comes from the Chief of the Aushi who sent me to come and sing it to you, and I am Steve Tsotsi singing. Topical song with guitar and bottle.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Nalinamayo nshale chula (When I had a mother, I did not starve)

- Stephen Tsotsi Kasumali and 2 friends, Hugh Tracey

We ngoma mashiana migoti nokwinta (The dance I have danced throughout the mines)

- C. Yamba, J. Kabalale and G. Lupala, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: C. Yamba, J. Kabalale and G. Lupala , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Ushi (African people) , Music--Zambia , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Kitwe f-za
  • Language: Aushi
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/140132 , vital:37838 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR053-10
  • Description: "The song we are going to sing you is so interesting that you will even leave your supper to come and listen to us even the police with their wives and children have left their duties just to come and hear. The Lamba people are making fun of us and saying we Aushi/Lumbo have no copper mine. But Lake Bengwelu is our mine because wheras you Lamba, you get all your wealth from the mines, we get it from our fish. In place of the jack hammers we have a net. The miners use a rock drilling machine underground, and we use a Mukwano net." Kalela dance song.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1957
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