South African Music Archive Project
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- Artist(s): Luo men (Performer) | Composer: Osito Adie (Performer)Composer not specified | Dho Luo, Drinking song, East African, Folk music, Gara leg bells, Indigenous music, Kenya, Kisii, Luo, Luo, Nyanza, Osito Adie, Wend Kong drinking song, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM field card number: D6J-11
- Artist(s): Nkole men (Performer) | Composer: Samuiri Rwakifunzi (Performer)Composer not specified | Ankole, Central African, Dance song, Drum, East African, Ekitagururo dance, Folk music, Indigenous music, Nkole, Nkole, Nyoro, Pot, Raft rattle, Samuiri Rwakifunzi, Uganda, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM field card number: D5J-1
- Artist(s): Shabani Abdullah Mwankema (Leader) | Composer: Dar es Salaam Jazz Band (Performer) | Band music, Dance music, Dar-es-Salaam Jazz Band, East African, Jazz, Nguja, Rumba, Shabani Abdullah, Shabani Abdullah Mwankemwa, Swahili, Tanganyika, Tanzania, Tukuyu, ILAM | Swahili Rumba with various instruments (guitars, kazoos, trumpet, drums, rattles, violin, clarinet, ukelele, banjo, sticks). Composer unknown. Further details refer ILAM field card (D3D5)
- Composer: Akito Arap Yeko (Performer) | East African, Kapsabet Nandi district Kenya, Nandi, Praise song, Yeko, Akito Arap, ILAM | Praise song with Kipukandet 5 string lyre (5 or 6 string pentatonic lyre used by Nandi tribe in Kenya, also known as Kibugantet and Chepkong.) This lyre is strummed like a guitar with the right hand, the left hand stopping the five strings, like the Bongwe zither of Nyasaland. This gave 2 chords. Notes 1, 3 and 5 and notes 2 and 4. One string, they said, was missing, the lower octave of number 1. The scale was: 308, 256, 232, 206, 180, (154) vs., The tune comes from the Luo people in the valleys below but has had Nandi words put to it. It is a song of praise for the Nandi country and other places which the singer and his audience have visited., The full recording is not available here.
- Artist(s): Nandi boys (Performer) | Composer: Francis Keter (Performer)Composer not specified | Dance song, East African, Folk music, Francis Keter, Indigenous music, Kenya, Moran dance, Nandi, Nandi, Nandi, Unaccompanied, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM field card number: D6F-6
- Artist(s): Nandi boys (Performer) | Composer: Paul Serebu (Performer)Composer not specified | Clapping, Dance song, East African, Folk music, Indigenous music, Moran dance, Nandi, Nandi, Nandi, Serebu,Paul, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM field card number: D6F-13
- Composer: Muruka Ndar Fula (Performer)Muruka Ndar Fula (Composer) | Dho Luo, East African, Gara leg bells, Indigenous music, Kenya, Kisumu, Luo, Muruka Ndar Fula, Praise song, Stamping, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM field card number: D6E-17
- Artist(s): Sukuma men (Performer) | Composer: Mwigolo bin Kija (Performer) | Clapping, East African, Folk music, Indigenous music, Maswa, Mwigolo bin Kija, Nyamwezi, Sukuma, Sukuma, Tanganyika, Tanzania, ILAM | Translation: Jilumba, come out here. Further details refer ILAM field card (D4G4)
- Composer: Muruka Ndar Fula (Performer)Muruka Ndar Fula (Composer) | Dho Luo, East African, Gara leg bells, Indigenous music, Kenya, Kisumu, Luo, Muruka Ndar Fula, Patriotic song, Stamping, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM field card number: D6E-18
- Composer: Maunda Waliula (Performer)Muruka Ndar Fula (Composer) | Dho Luo, East African, Gara leg bells, Indigenous music, Kenya, Kisumu, Luo, Muruka Ndar Fula, Stamping, Topical song, Waliaula,Maunda, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM field card number: D6E-19
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