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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.
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

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