Name: Women of Senga Bay
Duration: P00H05M30S
Description: Five women of the Senga Bay villages told us their stories of frustration and anger at how gender inequalities and limited opportunity lead to the infection of women. The lyrics reflect a compilation of women's testimonies. "That's how women die in Malawi. It makes me angry." - Kate

Women of Senga Bay

from Mau a Malawi: Stories of AIDS by Peter Mawanga & Andrew Finn Magill

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Five women of the Senga Bay villages told us their stories of frustration and anger at how gender inequalities and limited opportunity lead to the infection of women. The lyrics reflect a compilation of women's testimonies. "That's how women die in Malawi. It makes me angry." - Kate

lyrics

It was all up to me
My sister died and left behind seven kids
They say that's just what happens
When you're pregnant and positive
But it's not just what happens
And what happens isn't just
To these women in my village
We won't suffer in silence the violence of this virus

It makes me angry, God it makes me angry
Selling fish and selling me to feed my sons
It makes me angry, God it makes me angry
All of this we stand, but we cannot run.

Chimandilimera ndaperewera ineyo
Chimandipweteka ndaperewera ineyo

Ine mavuto amachuluka
Mbuye wanga mtendere ukundisowa
Ndapeza munthu wosadziwa chauta
Munthuyu nakhala banja langa

Tsiku ndi tsiku amatuluka
Komwe wapiti sindikudziwa
Bambo wotani wosakhala panyumba (abale)
Zandipweteka mpulupulu zake zake eeee
Zokhumudwitsa nanenso zimandiwawa
Naomwe zikupweteka amai wonse

Zandipweteka mpulupulu zakezo

Translation from Chichewa:
I have lots of problems in my life
Oh my God I have no peace of mind
I happen to know a man that doesn't respect you God
This man also happens to be my husband

Every day he leaves home
And he does not say where he is going as well
What's with this man, that cannot spend time with his family?
His wild behavior is killing
It makes me angry and it hurts me
That's what is killing women in my community

His wild behavior is killing me

credits

from Mau a Malawi: Stories of AIDS, released October 12, 2011
Lizzy Ross: Lead vocal
Rudo Mkukupa Chakwera: Chichewa lead vocal
Peter Mawanga: nylon-string guitar, backing vocals, and percussion
Andrew Finn Magill: steel-string guitar and backing vocals
Thatcher N'goma: electric guitar
Alfred Sitolo: bass
Dryson Mwimba: drums
Mavuto Miliyomi: marimbas

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Andrew Finn Magill Asheville, North Carolina

For twenty years violinist/fiddler and composer Andrew Finn Magill has been pursuing parallel careers in traditional Irish music, Brazilian choro, jazz and American fiddle and he has performed with everyone from grammy-nominees Trio Brasileiro to Rising Appalachia. ... more