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  1. Bateme Makonge

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    Artist(s): Haya men (Performer) | Composer: Kagaruki Nkokolo (Performer) | 1950/08/05 | Bukoba, Clapping, Drum, East African, Folk music, Haya, Haya, Indigenous music, Kagaruki Nkokolo, Nyoro, Tanganyika, Tanzania, Topical song, ILAM | Topical song with one drum and clapping. Translated English title - "Love your neighbour." Further details refer ILAM field card (D4W7).

  2. Batwala bafe

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    Composer: Ssaza Chief Kago (Performer)Danieri Seruwaniko (Performer)Composer not specified | 1952/06/20 | Chief Kago, Danieri Seruwaniko, East African, Folk music, Ganda, Indigenous music, Instrumental, Kampala, Kasangati, Madinda xylophone, Ssaza, Uganda, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM field card number: F3N 11

  3. Batwala bafe

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    Composer: Ssaga Chief Kago (Performer) | 1952/06/20 | Chief Kago, East African, Folk music, Ganda, Indigenous music, Kampala, Madinda, Ssaza, Uganda, Xylophone, ILAM | Instrumental music. Further details refer ILAM field card (F3N11)

  4. Bawakashi kuchenjela baka nimba mwendo

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    Artist(s): Lenje men and women. | Composer: Faifi Alachia (Performer) | 1949/08/15 | Broken Hill Mine, Drinking song, Faifi Alachia, Folk song, Indigenous music, Lenje, Lenje, Northern Rhodesia, Southern African, Unaccompanied, Zambia, ILAM | Drinking song about a man on a journey who suspects his wife of poisoning him. Further details refer to ILAM card no. C4H10.

  5. Baya wa baya

    Audio icon TP1263-XYZT4566.mp3
    Artist(s): Karanga men (Performer) | Composer: Jimi Shumba (Performer)Composer not specified | 1949-00-00 | Duma, Fighting song, Indigenous music, Karanga, Karanga, Shumba,Jima, Southern African, Southern Rhodesia, Unaccompanied, Zimbabwe, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM shellac record number: TP1263

  6. Baya Wam Beta

    Audio icon CR2950-GE56-868.mp3
    Composer: Griffiths Motsieloa and Co (Performer)Composer not specified | 1951-00-00 | East African, Indigenous music, Motsieloa,Griffiths, Southern African, Xhosa, ILAM | Further details refer to ILAM record number: CR2950.

  7. Baya, wa baya, ho-ha-ho! Mukono uno baya dzose

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    Artist(s): Duma men (Performer) | Composer: Shumba, J. (Performer)Jima Shumba (Performer) | 1949/10/14 | Bikita, Duma, Duma, Fighting song, Folk music, Huzi Bikita, Indigenous music, Karanga, Shumba,Jima, Southern African, Southern Rhodesia, Unaccompanied, Zimbabwe, ILAM | Fighting song, unaccompanied. Translated English title - "Kill, kill! The bull has killed them all." Further details refer ILAM field card (C6P9)

  8. Bayakhala

    Audio icon TS0096-T2459c.mp3
    Composer: Ekuthuleni School Choir (Performer)Composer not specified | 1959-00-00 | Ekuthuleni School Choir, Folk music, Indigenous music, South Africa, Southern African, Zulu, Zulu Traditional Rhymes, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM record number: TS0096.

  9. Bayama

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    Artist(s): P Madalena (Leader) | Composer: Societe Sami (Performer)Composer not specified | 1905/05/07 | Central African, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Indigenous music, Madalena,P., Ngala, Societe Sami, Unaccompanied, Vocal, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM shellac record (commercial recordings) number: CR1261

  10. Bayati, No 2

    Audio icon CR1374-GB1243-XYZ6076.mp3
    Composer: Bom Amberon (Leader)Egyptian Musical Club (Performer) | 1950-00-00 | Amberon,Bom, East African, Egyptian Music Club, Indigenous music, Nguja, Orchestra, Swahili, Tanganyika, Tanzania, Violin, ILAM | Further details refer to ILAM record number CR1374

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