Waba waplumu (They have stolen the cassava)

Title: Waba waplumu (They have stolen the cassava)
Performer / Recordist: R. W. Katenga-Kaunda and 3 Tonga lads; Tracey, Hugh
Subject: Folk music--Africa; Field recordings; Arts, Malawi; Songs, Tumbuka; Songs, Tonga (Nyasa); Tumbuka (African people); Folk music; Africa Malawi Chinteche District
Description / content note: This is a story about some young lads who were sleeping in an open place down by the lake. The people of the village were complaining that these boys were stealing their goods at night, their soaked cassava, their firewood and ground nuts, in fact everything was blamed upon them. They tried to explain it away, not in a manner altogether satisfactory to the villagers. Story song with clapping.
Type / form: sound recordings; field recordings; sound recording-musical
Language: Tonga
Publisher: International Library of African Music (ILAM)
Date recorded: 1958
Date issued / published: 1958
Identifier: TR090; 4
Is Format Of: Analog reel item
Duration (time): 00:07:07
File format: wav
Sample Rate: 15 ips reel
Digitisation (original): 96000Hz 24Bit Stereo; Studer B67 Recorder; Sound Forge V.6
Rights Holder: International Library of African Music
License: CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
Access Rights: Public
Is Part Of: ILAM Hugh Tracey Sound of Africa Series
Format: audio/mp3
Genre: field recordings
handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/156234