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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.
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

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101
Group of Tonga women
03:01
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102
Group of Tonga men and women
03:13
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103
Balizi ba Milopa
02:55
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104
Joseph Munyeme with group of Tonga men and women
03:52
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105
H.G. Habanyama with group of Tonga men
03:22