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Title Audio Collection Description Composersort icon Date All terms
Eremye | Central African

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ILAM

Topical song about a leper who is lamenting his demise and loneliness. Further details refer ILAM field card number D5Y15

S Mondo
Nasuti Social Clu

 1950-09-02 Central African | Folk music | ILAM | Indigenous music | Lament | Leprosy | Mondo,S. | mourning | Nasuti Social Club | Ntongoli eight string lyre | Soga | Song | topical | Traditional music | Uganda
Mwanawe Kalolina |

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ILAM

Personal lament with Bangwe zither. Further details refer ILAM field card (C5J10)

Saidi, B. (Composer/Performer)
Bisiwasi Saidi (Composer/Performer)

 1949-09-12 Bangwe | ILAM | Lament | Malawi | Ncheu | Ngoni | Nyasaland | Saidi,Bisiwasi | Southern African | Zither | Zulu
Kwaule iwe ndampeza |

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ILAM

Personal lament with Bangwe zither. Further details refer ILAM field card (C5J10)

Saidi, B. (Composer/Performer)
Bisiwasi Saidi (Composer/Performer)

 1949-09-12 Bangwe | ILAM | Lament | Malawi | Ncheu | Ngoni | Nyasaland | Saidi,Bisiwasi | Southern African | Zither | Zulu
Tusumwike ku kaya ndaga |

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ILAM

Burial song with drone, call and response, and lament like qualities. ILAM field card number is unknown

Siyanaloli Sanyila (Composer/Performer)
Unidentified others (Performer)

 1950-00-00 burial | Call and response | chant | Drone | East African | ILAM | Lament | mourning | Nyakyusa | Siyanaloli Sanyila | Song | Tanganyika | Tanzania | traditional
Tusumwike ku kaya ndaga |

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ILAM

Burial song with drone, call and response, and lament like qualities. ILAM field card number is unknown

Siyanaloli Sanyila (Composer/Performer)
Unidentified others (Performer)

 1950-00-00 burial | Call and response | chant | Drone | East African | ILAM | Lament | mourning | Nyakyusa | Siyanaloli Sanyila | Song | Tanganyika | Tanzania | traditional | Unidentified others
Suchi | East African

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ILAM

Further details refer to ILAM record number: CR2162.

Small Kipsigis Girls (Performer)
Composer not specified
Chepkorir (Leader)

 1950-00-00 Chepkorir | Children's song | East African | ILAM | Indigenous music | Kapkatet | Kenya | Kipsigis | Kipsigis | Lament
Sonet Wee | East African

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ILAM

Further details refer to ILAM record number: CR2162.

Small Kipsigis Girls (Performer)
Composer not specified
Chepkorir (Leader)

 1950-00-00 Chepkorir | Children's song | East African | ILAM | Indigenous music | Kapkatet | Kenya | Kipsigis | Kipsigis | Lament
Lefu la Seeiso |

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ILAM

Further details refer ILAM field card number: E1C 1

Sotho men from the Southern Choir, Roma College (Performer)
Composer not specified

 1951-05-23 Basutoland | Concert song | ILAM | Indigenous music | Lament | Lesotho | Maseru | Sotho | Sotho | South Sotho | Southern African | Southern Choir - Roma College | Unaccompanied
Lefu la Seeiso | Southern African

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ILAM

Further details refer ILAM record number: CR1980.

Southern Choir (Performer)
Composer not specified

 1952-00-00 Basutoland | ILAM | Lament | Lesotho | Roma | Sotho | South Sotho | Southern African | Southern Choir - Roma College
Chalo cha ku Zomba |

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ILAM

Unaccompanied lament for the Zomba flood. Further details refer ILAM field card (C5J24)

Thindwa, R. (Performer)
Robati Thindwa (Performer)

 1949-09-12 Henga | ILAM | Lament | Malawi | Nyasaland | Southern African | Thindwa,Robati | Tumbuka | Tumbuka | Unaccompanied
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