Mangai

Artist(s): 
Chibanda and Kasena with 7 Kanyoka men
Date: 
1957/07/28
Format: 
78 RPM shellac record
Source: 
Master number: ILAM-34
Publisher: 
International Library of African Music
Rights: 
International Library of African Music
Identifier (greenstone export db): 
7916
Identifier (original): 
TP3969-L3C18
Identifier (disa): 
mus1957-07-28.036.018.TP3969-L3C18
Keywords: 
Description: 

Topical song with 2 guitars, 3 basket rattles and 1 bottle. Chibanda and Kasena with 7 Kanyoka men. Territory Mwene Ditu, District Kabinda, Kasai, Belgian Congo. Recorded in rural Panda-Jadotville, Belgian Congo., "The Kanyoka captured the Chief of the Kasai people on the other side of the river, cut off his head, put it in a pot of beer and drank the beer.", It is not certain from the context to which tribal wars this incident refers, if any. It may well be a form of boasting or braggadocio.