Ndinochema amasebe

Artist(s): 
Simon  Mafiru Sitole
Date: 
1957/01/03
Format: 
78 RPM shellac record
Source: 
Shellac record number:TP4272-2
Publisher: 
International Library of African Music
Rights: 
International Library of African Music
Identifier (greenstone export db): 
8574
Identifier (original): 
TP4272-2
Identifier (disa): 
mus1957-01-03.036.018.TP4272-2
Keywords: 
Description: 

Topical song with mbira dza WaNdau and deze resonator. "See I am crying, mother-in-law.Poverty, elder brother, alack.See, Sophiatown is bad, PatisoniIn my distress I think of homeHappiness to you all at Marange."The singer sings about the conditions in which he finds himself at Sophiatown, near Johannesburg, where he works as a carpenter's assistant. His home, Marange is in the Chipinga District of Southern Rhodesia, about 400 miles north east of Johannesburg.Details from ILAM record number TP4272-2