Nikhonyowa (Nikhonyowa is my friend)

Title: Nikhonyowa (Nikhonyowa is my friend)
Performer / Recordist: Sitori Malindi and Dailimi Likluva; Tracey, Hugh
Subject: Folk music--Africa; Field recordings; Songs, Chewa; Lomwe (African people); Chewa (African people); Folk music; Africa Malawi Mkanda
Description / content note: "Nikhonyowa, I want to take you, for my friend. My mother in Muthollolla." The Lomwe delight in singing with their special friends and no doubt the originator of this song had chosen Nikhonyowa to sing with him. Mothollola is the name of a village beyond Mlanje mountain in Portuguese territory from where he came over to Nyasaland as so many Lomwe have done, about 200,000 in the last 10 to 20 years. Party song with clapping.
Type / form: sound recordings; field recordings; sound recording-musical
Language: Lomwe
Publisher: International Library of African Music (ILAM)
Date recorded: 1958
Date issued / published: 1958
Identifier: TR098; 15
Is Format Of: Analog reel item
Duration (time): 00:02:39
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/10962/160697