Song Lines Into South Africa’s Past: Bow Music of Maphophoma

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In the early 1980s Dave Dargie went deep into Zululand to track down traditional bow singers. He was rewarded with some remarkably rich songs performed by old people, including one whose grandfather was wounded at the battle of Isandlwana.

 

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