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The Use of Folk Music Among Some Bemba Church Congregations in Zambia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 February 2019

Isaiah Mwesa Mapoma
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Zambia is, for administrative purposes, divided into eight provinces: the Northern, the Luapula, the Western, the Northwestern, the Eastern, the Central, the Southern, and the Barotse. Linguistically, it is divided into four main language groups: the Bemba, the Nyanja, the Tonga, and the Lozi. The language groupings coincide to a great extent with the provinces, with the Bemba-speaking people spread over the Northern, Luapula, Western, and parts of the Central provinces. The Nyanja speakers are in the Eastern Province, the Tonga speakers in the Southern and parts of the Central provinces, and the Lozi speakers in Barotse Province. The Northwestern Province is occupied by a group of tribes whose lingua franca is usually regarded as Luvale-Mbunda.

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Yearbook of the International Folk Music Council , Volume 1 , 1969 , pp. 72 - 88
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Copyright © 1971 By The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois 

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2 John Taylor and Dorothea Lehmann, Christians of the Copper-belt (London, 1961).Google Scholar

3 The author has been told of the use of some folk songs by CMML congregations at their Mpweto Station in the Congo. In addition, a Bemba hymn book at the Mansa Mission Station has a few hymns such as “Lesa wesu” (“Our God”) in the Bemba folk style. It is difficult to pinpoint their exact origins.Google Scholar

4 Inyimbo sha Eklesha shaku Chipili (London, 1933).Google Scholar

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6 Ibid., p. 252.Google Scholar

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