Mr Broer Oageng’s performances were recorded by Dave Dargie in Mahalapye, approximately 200km North of Gaborone, Botswana, in 1989. Mr Oageng performed on his instrument, a Segapa, Tswana for a wooden bow attached to a tin with a single string.
Dargie recorded three songs from Mr Oageng – Ka Umponwana, a song describing the inappropriateness of the miniskirt in traditional society, Re tsamaya kwa Kanamo, a songs Mr Oageng composed in response to of a church music workshop held at Kanamo Centre in Mahalapye, and the traditional Tswana song Mmachobela.
(CD notes: New world Ancient Harmonies)
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