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The mbira of the Ndau: Mozambique and Zimbabwe in 1972
Get PDFThe article, arising from research done in 1972, follows on the author’s series of analyses of the instrumental music of the Shona and Sena peoples of the Zambezi Valley. The analyses in this article focus on the relatively unknown mbira of the Ndau. The article describes its hexatonic note layout, highly variable tunings, and its variations among the Ndau-and Shangana-speaking groups in Southeast Zimbabwe and adjacent regions of Mozambique and South Africa. It includes the historical effect of the Shangana invasion of the nineteenth century into Mozambique. The article further discusses the transcription of the mbira’s music, in staff or the author’s own tablature, with detailed description of the latter. It compares Ndau with Shona concepts of ownership of songs, the practice of kubempa as used by Ndau travelling musicians and the difficulties of working in pre-independence Mozambique. The article presents songs in tablature, some by Bonisa Sithole, the author’s field assistant
Hip Hop in Africa: Prophets of the City and Dustyfoot Philosophers. Msia Kibona Clark, 2018. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press. 25 illustrations b&w, bibliography, index, 266 pp.
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Visit to Southwell and Kariega Baptist Church 20 May 2021
Get PDFOn Thursday 20 May, 43 members set off from the Port Alfred Civic Centre at 9 am sharp to visit the old school and St James church in Southwell, where Moira Stirk kindly addressed us. This was followed by a visit to the historic Baptist Church in Kariega, where we were addressed by Hubert Webber, whose family has long been connected with the area
Bicentennial Commemoration at Seven Fountains
Get PDFOn 27 September 2020, along with representatives of local farming families and wellwishers, we were drawn to this Church to celebrate perhaps the only public settler Bicentennial Commemoration that took place in 2020, the year of Covid pandemic and lockdown. The event had been planned and organised by Graham Dickason, a direct descendant of widower Robert Dickason of the 1820 Latham Party
John Bailie: The tragic life and times of John Bailie 1820 Settler 1788 - 1852
No full textCaptain John Bailie arrived at the Buffalo Mouth with a military wagon-train for transporting the Knysna’s cargo to King William’s Town a few days before the Knysna’s arrival. While awaiting its arrival, Bailie mounted the promontory east of the Buffalo mouth, known as Signal Hill and planted a Union Jack on its summit, thereby claiming the port for Great Britain.” The man credited with planting the Union Jack on Signal Hill, thus becoming the founder of East London in November 1836, was recognised by the city fathers a century later with an impressive memorial on that site
Jeremiah Goldswain: The East London connection to The Chronicle of Jeremiah Goldswain
No full textThe first Chronicle of Jeremiah Goldswain was published in 1946 by The Van Riebeeck Society. Una Long must be given full credit as a field worker in Historical Research at Rhodes University College, (as it was known in 1946), Grahamstown. She acknowledges many people in her first chapter, including The Van Riebeeck Society which gave her a copy of the Chronicle. The Society only became custodians in 1944, and yet Una Long had completed the editing of Volume 1 (1819-1836) which was published in 1946. She put in a massive effort to change as little as possible, except to punctuate, break up sentences, and to use capital letters where needed, in order to make the Chronicle readable. What is fascinating to me, is that only because she reads Sir G.E. Cory’s “The Rise of South Africa”, does she realise how much he quotes from the Chronicle, but where is it? Dr Cory’s son informs her that the Chronicle is owned by C.T Goldswain, which in fact is not true. My grandfather, Clement Tyson did get a copy of the 52 foolscap pages from Mrs Austen (round 1944) who bequeathed the Chronicle to Govt Archives, who then passed the 52 pages to Cape Archives. I cannot trace Mrs Austen who was a grand-daughter of Jeremiah, as Clement was a grandson. Clement had a copy which he re-wrote in his own English, but this was declared inappropriate by Una Long. Volume 2 of the Chronicle (1838-1858) was published in 1949, in which Jeremiah used words and sentences from Robert Godlonton in his narrative of “The Irruption of the Kafir Hordes 1834/5”
A brief history of the Xhosa Chiefs and King represented on cairns on Toposcope Monument, Bathurst
Get PDFA brief history of the Xhosa Chiefs and King represented on cairns on Toposcope Monument, Bathurs