Omuna wanga (Oh! my husband)

Title: Omuna wanga (Oh! my husband)
Performer / Recordist: Thawani Mwale; Tracey, Hugh
Subject: Folk music--Africa; Field recordings; Songs, Chewa; Songs, Nyanja; Nyanja (African people); Chewa (African people); Folk music; Africa Malawi Mubvi, Salima District
Description / content note: A woman complaining to her brother that he has married her off to a bad husband who beats her. She asks to go to Karonga (the chief) to be divorced. Her husband has no money to buy her beer but he buys it for a stranger. Lament with Bangwe board zither.
Type / form: sound recordings; field recordings; sound recording-musical
Language: Nyanja; Chewa
Publisher: International Library of African Music (ILAM)
Date recorded: 1958
Date issued / published: 1958
Identifier: TR092; 5
Is Format Of: Analog reel item
Duration (time): 00:02:49
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/10962/156788