Ndiza fera chuma (I never have enough money)

Title: Ndiza fera chuma (I never have enough money)
Performer / Recordist: Sitero Mbewe and Frank Mukweza; Tracey, Hugh
Subject: Folk music--Malawi; Songs, Nyanja; Nyanja (African people); Songs, Chewa; Chewa (African people); Folk music; Field recordings
Description / content note: "I left my mother in 1950 and came to work. I had no money for I spent it all on women." This song was performed by Chewa men who had come over from Nyasaland to Rhodesia where they were employed upon the constructio of the Kariba Dam on the Zambezi river. Topical song with two guitars.
Type / form: sound recordings; field recordings; sound recording-musical
Language: Nyanja; Chewa
Place of recording: Africa, Sub-Saharan; Africa Malawi Central Nyasaland
Publisher: International Library of African Music (ILAM)
Date recorded: 1957
Date issued / published: 1957
Identifier: TR099; 7
Is Format Of: Analog reel item
Duration (time): 00:02:57
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/10962/160816