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Title Audio Collection Description Composer Date All terms
Wanganja welaninge |

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ILAM

Further details refer ILAM field card no. DN1.

E. M. Gondwe (Performer)

 1950-05-12 Blantyre | Folk music | Gondwe,E.M. | Henga | Henga | ILAM | Indigenous music | Malawi | Morality song | Nyasaland | Southern African | Tumbuka
Wangithu wa ku Jubegi |

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ILAM

Further details refer ILAM shellac record number: TP1194

Tumbuka men (Performer)
Composer not specified

 1949-00-00 Concert song | Drum | East African | Henga | ILAM | Indigenous music | Malawi | Nyasaland | Southern African | Stick | Tumbuka | Tumbuka
Wanisinde wana ndibaya ndi mpemi |

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ILAM

Concert song. Further details refer ILAM card no C5J20

Rabisoni Kangwale (Performer)

 1949-09-12 banjo | Concert song | Guitar | ILAM | Kangwale,Rabisoni | Malawi | Nyanja | Nyasaland | Southern African
Wanisinde wana ndiyabaya ndi mpeni |

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ILAM

Translated English title - "The ruffian nearly killed me with a knife." Further details refer ILAM Shellac record number: TP0737

Composer not specified
Nangwale, R. (Performer)

 1949-09-12 banjo | Concert song | Guitar | ILAM | Indigenous music | Malawi | Nangwale,Robison | Nyanja | Nyanja | Nyasaland | Southern African | Ukelele
Wanyithu wa ku Jubegi |

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ILAM

Concert song sung by Tambuka and Henga boys with sticks beaten on a bass drum as accompaniment. Further details refer to ILAM card no. C5N6.

Blantyre Secondary School Boys (Performer)

 1949-09-16 Bass Drum | Blantyre | Blantyre Secondary School | Central African | Concert song | Folk song | Henga | ILAM | Indigenous music | Malawi | Nyasaland | Sticks | Tambuka
Wapita lero kalindabwinja |

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ILAM

Karigo dance song with Karigo one-stringed lute. Translated English title - "The watchman has gone today." Further details refer ILAM field card (DU3)

Hodede Homwale (Performer)

 1950-05-19 Chewa | Chewa | Dance song | Folk music | Homwale,Hodede | ILAM | Indigenous music | Karigo | Lilongwe | Lute | Malawi | Nyanja | Nyasaland | Southern African
Wari makhata mamwene meli |

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ILAM

Story song, unaccompanied with Lomwe men. Further details refer ILAM field card (C5N16)

Saukila, W.S. (Performer)

 1949-09-16 Blantyre | Folk music | ILAM | Indigenous music | Lomwe | Lomwe | Makua | Malawi | Nyasaland | Saukila,W.S. | Southern African | Story Song | Unaccompanied
Wasepuka na mbuzi |

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ILAM

Further details refer ILAM field card number: D2A 4

Wareni Mkandawiri (Performer)
Composer not specified

 1950-05-26 East African | Folk music | Henga | Henga | ILAM | Indigenous music | Malawi | Mkandawiri,Wareni | Mzimba | Nyasaland | Song | Southern African | story | Tumbuka | Tumbuka | Unaccompanied
Wasepuka na mbuzi |

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ILAM

Further details refer ILAM field card number: D2A 4

Wareni Mkandawiri (Performer)
Composer not specified

 1950-05-26 East African | Folk music | Henga | Henga | ILAM | Indigenous music | Malawi | Mkandawiri,Wareni | Mzimba | Nyasaland | Song | Southern African | story | Tumbuka | Tumbuka | Unaccompanied
Watani Kocwe |

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ILAM

Topical entertainment song with Chewe men and one woman with clapping. Translated English title - "What has the mouse done." Further details refer ILAM field card (C5A7).

Chewa men and a Chewa woman (Performer)

 1949-09-03 Chewa | Chewa | Clapping | Dowa Boma | Entertainment song | ILAM | Indigenous music | Malawi | Nyasaland | Southern African | Topical song
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