Ekwane ka marumo (Come out with assegais)

Title: Ekwane ka marumo (Come out with assegais)
Performer / Recordist: Jemina Pheha and 24 women; Tracey, Hugh
Subject: Folk songs, Tswana; Tswana (African people); Folk music; Field recordings
Description / content note: "Mother, I am born for the assegai. Come out with the assegais people of Dikgale, Come out with the assegais. I was born for the leopard, I was born at the place where the Lehiliri trees grow. Come out with assegais. An old song from the fighting days of the last century. First Mazilikazi and later the whites fought in this district while the tribal headquaters were still here and later near Mochudi in Bechuanaland. Fighting 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; 6
Is Format Of: Analog reel item
Duration (time): 00:02:47
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/10962/165969