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  1. Composer: Rhodesian Glee Singers (Performer)Composer not specified | 1950-00-00 | Chinyanja, East African, Guitar, Indigenous music, Rattle, Rhodesian Glee Singers, Vocal, ILAM | Further details refer to ILAM record number: CR3414.
  2. Artist(s): Tumbuka people (Performer) | Composer: Owen Chirwa (Performer)Composer not specified | 1950-00-00 | Chirwa,Owen, East African, Henga, Malawi, Nyasaland, School song, Southern African, Tumbuka, Tumbuka, Tumbuka, Unaccompanied, ILAM | Tumbuka/Henga School song, "Let's call Lupembe", Further details refer to ILAM recording TP1347
  3. Composer: Saadani Abdu Kandaro (Performer)Composer not specified | 1950-00-00 | East African, Folk music, Indigenous music, Mashairi, Nguja, Poetry, Saadani Abdu Kandaro, Song, Swahili, Tanganyika, Tanzania, Unaccompanied, ILAM | Mashairi Song Poems. Further details refer ILAM shellac record number TP1696
  4. Composer: Saadani Abdu Kandoro (Composer/Performer) | 1950/07/18 | East African, Mashairi, Nguja, Poetry, Saadani Abdu Kandaro, Song, Swahili, Tabora, Tanganyika, Tanzania, ILAM | Mashairi sung poems warning others to be careful. Refer ILAM field card D4C20
  5. Composer: Saadani Abdu Kandoro | 1950/07/18 | East African, Mashairi, Nguja, Poetry, Saadani Abdu Kandaro, Song, Swahili, Tanganyika, Tanzania, ILAM | Sung poemRefer ILAM field card D4C20
  6. Composer: Saadini Abdu Kandoro (Performer)Composer not specified | 1950-00-00 | East African, Mashairi, Nguja, Poetry, Saadani Abdu Kandaro, Song, Swahili, Tanganyika, Tanzania, Ujiji, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM record number CR1406.
  7. Artist(s): The Egyptian Musical Clu | Composer: Bom Amberon (Leader)Composer not specified | 1951-00-00 | Amberon,Bom, East African, Egyptian Music Club, Indigenous music, Orchestra, Swahili, Tanganyika, Tanzania, Violin, ILAM | Further details refer to ILAM record number CR1376
  8. Artist(s): Kipsigis girls | Composer: Chemutoi Ketienya (Performer)r and Composer) | 1950/09/15 | East African, Humorous, Kenya, Kericho, Ketienya,Chemutoi, Kipsigis, Kipsigis, Lyre, Song, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM field card no. D6L22b.
  9. Artist(s): Chemutoi Ketienya with Kipsigis girls | 1950/09/15 | Chepkongo bowl lyre, East African, Indigenous music, Kenya, Ketienya, Chemutoi, Kipsigis, Kipsigis, Kipsigis, ILAM | A humorous song with Chepkongo 6 string bowl lyre. The mysterious singer and dancer, Chemirocha has been turned into a local god Pan with the feet of an antelope, half beast, half man. He is urged by the girls to do the leaping dance familiar to all Kipsigis so energetically that he will jump clear out of his clothes. The name Chemirocha is based upon the guitarist Jimmy Rodgers.Details from ILAM field card number: D6L 22b.
  10. Composer: Composer not specifiedLang Obiera (Performer) | 1900-01-00 | East African, Guitar, Indigenous music, Kenya, Luo, Obiero,Lang, Song, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM record number TP0452-ABC12219

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