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Drinking songs, sung riddles, and humorus songs from the Tswana-speaking Tlharo of the Mafeking district, South Africa

Various Artists

Tswana people, Botswana. Mutwana, from Chief Kanye, Lobatsi district, Botswana, is depicted playing the Segankure, a one-stringed fiddle played with a bow. — Tswana people, Botswana. Mutwana, from Chief Kanye, Lobatsi district, Botswana, is depicted playing the Segankure, a one-stringed fiddle played with a bow.
Photograph taken at Durban Deep Mine, Johannesburg. March 23, 1947.

Track Listing

101	Magogwe mo Leseng Part I (Let the honey bear dig out the ant bear) Mmapane Taunyane with 3 Tlharo women and 1 man	01:22
102	Malepa (The problem) Kgosietsile Mokgosi	04:23
103	Sananapo (Riddles) Itshepheng Masibi with 5 Tlharo men and 3 women	03:25
104	Hololo we Bahurutshe Matebeyane (When we saw the Hurutshe approaching, we thought they were Ndebele) Daniel Ramokgadi and Sei Lobega	05:53

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