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Title Audio Collection Description Composer Date All terms
Achifa dukwana chamina | East African

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ILAM

Translated English title - "This handkerchief of mine." Further details refer ILAM field card number: L1A 1

Alberto Tentowani Mwamosi (Performer)
Gabriel Maopana Bila (Performer)
Alberto Tentowani Mwamosi (Composer)

 1957-01-10 Bila,Gabriel Maopana | Chopi | East African | Gaza | Guitar | ILAM | Lenge | Mozambique | Mwamosi,Alberto Tentowani | Popular music | Portuguese East Africa | Sentimental song | Southern African | Vocals
Achiku kwende kumigunda |

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ILAM

Topical song with Bangwe board zither. Composer not specified. Translated English title - "Achiku, come to the fields." Further details refer ILAM field card (C4G15)

Uladi Kachoka (Performer)

 1949-08-14 Bangwe | Board zither | Folk music | ILAM | Indigenous music | Kachoka,Uladi | Malawi | Nyasaland | Southern African | Topical song | Yao | Zither
Acibinda tiye tonoe nglombe ee |

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ILAM

Hunting song accompanied by 2 Cylindrical Drums. Further details refer ILAM field card no. C4T1.

Obisitala Kanyungu (Performer)

 1949-08-27 Folk song | ILAM | Indigenous music | Kanyungu,Obisitala | Northern Rhodesia | Nsenga | Nsenga | Southern African | Zambia
Acibinda tiye tonse ng'ombe ee |

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ILAM

Hunting song for after the hunt. Translated English title - "Hunter, let us hunt together." Further details refer ILAM record number TP0297-XYZ4446

Obisitala Kanyungu (Performer)

 1949-08-27 Drum | Folk music | Hunting song | ILAM | Indigenous music | Kanyungu,Obisitala | Northern Rhodesia | Nsenga | Nsenga | Southern African | Zambia
Acibinda Tiye Tonse | Southern African

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ILAM

Further details refer ILAM shellac record (Commercial Recordings) number: CR0047

Nsenga men (Performer)
Composer not specified

 1952-00-00 Chief Kalindawalo | Drum | Folk music | Hunting song | ILAM | Indigenous music | Kanyungu,Obisitala | Northern Rhodesia | Nsenga | Nsenga | Southern African | Zambia
Ad bona Lephenge |

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ILAM

Topical song. Further details refer to ILAM record no. TP0057-ABC 411.

Klerksdorp Conathan Choristers (Performer)

 1948-00-00 Bechuanaland | Botswana | Choir | Choral music | ILAM | Indigenous music | Klerksdorp Conathan Choristers | Rolong | Southern African | Topical song | Tshidi | Tswana | Unaccompanied
Ada a Banda |

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ILAM

Chioda dance song

Lucy Nyamangwe (Performer)

 1950-05-29 Drum | Folk song | ILAM | Malawi | Nkala Bay | Nyamangwe,Lucy | Nyasaland | Southern African | Tonga | Tonga
Ada a Banda |

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ILAM

Chioda dance song for young women. The subject deals with a father who has to leave home to work on the mines. The song is accompanied by drum rhythms beaten on a box. Refer ILAM field card number D2E15

Lucy Nyamangwe (Performer)
Tonga girls (Performer)

 1950-05-29 Box | Chioda | dance | Drum | ILAM | Malawi | Migrant | mines | Nyamangwe,Lucy | Nyasaland | rhythm | Song | Southern African | Tonga | Tonga | Young women
Adam no Eva |

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ILAM

Vocal mbube. Further details refer ILM record TP3439

The Orlando Trained Singers (Performer)

 1943-00-00 Guitar | ILAM | Mbube | Orlando Trained Singers | South Africa | Southern African | Vocal | Zulu
Ae ae tambala kamalila kwae |

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ILAM

Myiri dance song with Sese guitar. Further details refer ILAM shellac record number: TP1200

Selemani (Performer)
Composer not specified

 1949-00-00 Dance song | East African | Guitar | ILAM | Indigenous music | Malawi | Myiri | Nyanja | Nyasaland | Selemani | Sese | Southern African
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