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Ndebele-Soli Bi-musicality in Zambia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 February 2019

Atta Annan Mensah
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Investigations made in the Soli area of Zambia during 1968 yielded songs in a number of different languages. There were songs in Soli, songs in Lenje, songs in a mixture of these two languages, songs in Karanga (one of the Shona group of languages of Rhodesia), and songs in Ndebele (one of the Zulu group of languages found in Rhodesia and South Africa).

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Yearbook of the International Folk Music Council , Volume 2 , 1970 , pp. 108 - 120
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Copyright © 1971 By the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois 

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2 See Chaplin, J. H., “Notes on Some Sites in Soli History” in The Northern Rhodesia Journal, V, no. 1 (1962), 50–56.Google Scholar

3 For instance in Scudder, Thayer, The Ecology of the Gwembe Tonga (Manchester, 1962), p. 25.Google Scholar

4 The Ndebele do not use drums except when performing music learned from neighboring tribes. In their own music they achieve percussive effects by hand- clapping and by rattles attached to the ankles of dancers. My attention was first drawn to this by David Rycroft, and this was later confirmed in further field work.Google Scholar

5 The presence of drums in this performance suggests non-Ndebele origins. Further investigation has revealed that amajugwa is a tradition borrowed from the Shona, the original possessors of the land now occupied by the Ndebele in Rhodesia.Google Scholar