Eshi ente yangye Mayenje

Item note: Kinyankore traditional folk song. This was Cooke's first return visit to Uganda since 1968.  Many of the informants were old friends who had survived 19 years of political turmoil and war.  Conditions in southern Uganda were bad - the infrastructure of the country was in ruins  and manufactured goods were in desperately short supply.  Northern Uganda  was still at war with the new President of Uganda,  Museveni; The 1987 visit was made possible through the generosity of the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland and the Travel and Research Committee of the University of Edinburgh. Performance note: Arranged as mini-drama; Mayenje is a wonderful cow and prodigious milker. She is praised, her genealogy is recited, also her offspring. Cattle, Mayenje leading are led into the compound for the night. Fires are ordered to keep insects off and girls are told to get milk pots for each cow. Performer's note: Mr. P. Beegumisa and friends. Recordist's note: In Peter Cooke's notes, this is PCUG87.19.2.