Founder of ILAM:

Andrew Tracey

Hugh Tracey began studying African music in 1920, when he arrived from Devonshire, England in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) to farm tobacco with his older brother Leonard who had been allotted land as a serviceman wounded in the First World War.

He learned the Karanga dialect of the Shona language by working with Karanga farm workers in the fields.

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Music of Africa Series

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Historical Recordings by Hugh Tracey

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Where to find us:

Outside ILAM building

The ILAM building is located in Grahamstown, South Africa on the beautiful Rhodes Unversity campus, just off Prince Alfred Road.

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