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	<description>&#34;Its barbed edges make a palm branch dreaded/Her full hips inspire respectful awe for a woman.&#34; Salia Koroma.</description>
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		<title>Salia Koroma&#8217;s &#8220;Manawa&#8221;: The First Recording</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the first recording of the Manawa song, done some two years after the Second World War, according to Salia himself in his 1993 interview.  This early recording is quite obviously a shorter version, edited by the singer to &#8230; <a href="http://nikiibu.wordpress.com/2011/11/10/salia-koromas-manawa-the-first-recording/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nikiibu.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7020128&amp;post=761&amp;subd=nikiibu&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Salia Koroma: More Than She Bargained For</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I shall be writing a post on Salia Koroma and his spoken introductions. For today, though, I&#8217;ll limit myself to a specific introduction to a particular song. The song here is Kpomuma-Jekele. I&#8217;ve three versions of this song, one of them without &#8230; <a href="http://nikiibu.wordpress.com/2011/10/05/salia-koroma-more-than-she-bargained-for/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nikiibu.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7020128&amp;post=756&amp;subd=nikiibu&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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