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Bemba songs and hymns

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Hugh Tracey recorded these Bemba songs in 1957 at mining compounds in Northern Rhodesia, now known as Zambia. Several of the songs are accompanied by the mumamba mbira, placed in a bell-shaped resonator with the open part facing the player. The musician’s wife rhythmically taps the resonator (Tracey 1973).

Track Listing

101	Tondwe kasobele ku bulaya (Honey-bird, go tell the people in Europe that I and my family are on our way back)	Edmond Cileshe and his wife	2:58
102	Maitumbe (Rapture)	Edmond Cileshe and his wife	2:52
103	Mailo nkaya (Tomorrow I'll be going)	Edmond Cileshe and four friends	3:52
104	Iteyanye (Be prepared)	Members of the Christian Mission to Many Lands	2:05
105	Munendo na munendo (Christian travellers)	Members of the Christian Mission to Many Lands	3:11
106	Shiwifulunganye ifunde (Thou shall not interfere with the law of the Sabbath)	Bancroft Seventh Day Adventist Choir	2:38