A lona le utse le ithuta dithuto tseo tsa lona, Are you going on with your lessons

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Title: A lona le utse le ithuta dithuto tseo tsa lona, Are you going on with your lessons
Performer / Recordist: Mapidio Elisabeth Mothulwe and Kgatla women; Tracey, Hugh
Subject: Folk songs, Tswana; Tswana (African people); Folk music; Field recordings
Description / content note: Chief: "Are you going on with those lessons of yours, Kgabo (monkey)? show them to me." Children: "Here they are, here they are." Chief: "Show them to me." Children: "Here they are, here they are." This is believed to be a very old song taught in the early days of the church when the Chief would come round asking the children if they were learning their lessons properly. The Dutch Reformed Church was first established in this village in 1864. Morality song.
Type / form: sound recordings; field recordings; sound recording-musical
Language: Tswana; Kgatla
Place of recording: Africa, Sub-Saharan; Africa -- South Africa Saulspoort
Publisher: International Library of African Music (ILAM)
Date recorded: 1959
Date issued / published: 1959
Identifier: TR0116; 5
Is Format Of: Analog reel item
Duration (time): 00:02:44
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/10962/165960

Item sets: Hugh Tracey Sound of Africa Series

A lona le utse le ithuta dithuto tseo tsa lona, Are you going on with your lessons

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