Dance and topical songs from the Tonga of Malawi

Various Artists

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

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).

Track Listing

101	Chani zangaria (I want to be married) Iron Khoma	01:32
102	Anyangwila yanga pano-kwawo (My Anyangwila is going to her Mother) Group of four Tonga women	03:18
103	Pikifoti Chilwa Pikifoti Chilwa and group of Tonga men	02:39