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Topical and ceremonial songs including rain songs from the Valley Tonga people of Zambia

Various Artists

Tonga people, Zambia. Tonga man playing the Kalumbo bow at Gwembe district, Zambia.
Photograph by Hugh Tracey, 1957. Courtesy of the International Library of African Music.

In 1957, Hugh Tracey recorded topical and ceremonial songs, including rainmaking songs, from the Valley Tonga people of Gwembe District, Zambezi Valley, Zambia, then called Northern Rhodesia.

Track Listing

101	Nabutema fulida mvlito	Anrosi Kaniamba	2:10
102	Muzimu wandiyanda moyo	Jerevani Siakuteka	3:00
103	Karubgwerubgwe kone agwari	Group of Tonga women	1:31
104	Ngoma	Group of Tonga men and women	4:01
105	Tulila menda	Group of Tonga women	2:44
106	Wai mwanangu	Syadimana Nsaga	1:33
107	Muzolange nobakotata	Siambelele Nyama	2:50
108	Atuwendi kumanzi ntwende kumulonga tukateke menda	Timoti Sadimbi	1:03