Catalog

Songe topical songs

Various Artists

Kanyoka people, southern Democratic Republic of Congo. Chibanda Badouin, with his accordion and friends with guitar and bottle, at Elisabethville (now Lubumbashi).
Photograph by Hugh Tracey, January 26, 1952. Courtesy of the International Library of African Music.

Ngoi Nono, Kabongo Anastase, and several friends accompany their singing on two guitars, a struck bottle, and a rattle. They are Songe, from the Kabongo area of what is now southern Democratic Republic of Congo (Tracey 1973).

Track Listing

101	Masenga wa Bena Nomba (Masenga of the Bena Nomba)	Group of Luba men with two guitarists	04:29
102	Aye welele wa Mhalaka (Alas for a bachelor)	Group of Luba men with two guitarists	03:04
103	Mionde abana	Group of nine Luba men with two guitarists	02:56