Tonga people, northern Malawi. Bangwe zither belonging to Beti Kamanga. Chinteche District.

Photograph by Hugh Tracey, May 29, 1950. Courtesy of the International Library of African Music.

Tonga people, northern Malawi. Beti Kamanga playing his Bangwe raft zither with 7 strings.

Photograph by Hugh Tracey, May 29, 1950. Courtesy of the International Library of African Music.

In 1957, Hugh Tracey recorded these songs by Tongan people from the Chinteche District of Northern Nyasaland, now called Malawi. The recordings were made in mining compounds in what is now Malawi and Zambia (Tracey 1973).

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