Threshing and herding songs from the Tswana-speaking Tlharo of 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.

Photograph taken at Durban Deep Mine, Johannesburg. March 23, 1947. Courtesy of the International Library of African Music.

Track Listing

101	Khonou e ea kga thamo (The brown ox swings its dewlap)	Tshekoeng Mokgosi with 4 men and 4 women	02:17
102	Kgatha shoewanene (We have drive the guinea fowl)	Tshekoeng Mokgosi with 8 women and 4 men	02:27
103	Pina eaa badisa (A herdboy's song)	Kgosietsile Mokgosi and Seyedi Merafe	04:47
104	Sebodu ke Nnenekwane banna (Men are told Nnenekwane is the laziest)	Matubako Marumo and 3 men	01:37
105	Lesang nca re a baka (Leave the dog alone)	Ntnebolang Molebatsi with 4 men and 4 women	03:05