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Dance songs with drums from the Valley Tonga people of Zambia

Various Artists

Lozi/Subiya people, Namibia. Silimba xylophone played by Mr. Mului, accompanied by Milupa drums.
Photograph by Cecilia Geldenhuys, June 1981. Courtesy of the Windhoek Museum and ILAM.

Hugh Tracey recorded these dance songs with drums in 1957 from the Valley Tonga people of Gwembe District in the Zambezi Valley of Zambia, then called Northern Rhodesia.

Track Listing

101	Mobai	Group of Tonga women	03:01
102	Ngoma	Group of Tonga men and women	03:13
103	Muzemu	Balizi ba Milopa	02:55
104	Yalila ngololo kutwaga belega (You were praised by the man you worked for)	Joseph Munyeme with group of Tonga men and women	03:52
105	Ndaboola oko (I'm on my way there)	H.G. Habanyama with group of Tonga men	03:22