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Thread #134667   Message #3065424
Posted By: GUEST
02-Jan-11 - 04:24 AM
Thread Name: Copyrighting A Traditional Song
Subject: RE: Copyrighting A Traditional Song
And the following is part of a message contributed to the Footstompin Forum by Niall. Seems to be two kids' pieces welded together, plus the 'final English words' that are nowadays termsed 'rap'?

FROM NIALL, IN FOOTSTOMPIN FORUM

Just found this: :

For the non-Banyankore, the general perception is that the song/rhyme/poem was a composition of Museveni.

The song/rhyme is an old age Banyankore children's rhyme. Almost every Munyankore above the age of five or so years and is/was born and raised in Ankole countryside knows one or both songs now under the re-baptised label of Another Rap. Mr Museveni has not added any single word to the rhymes. He has not even added any new lyrics except the English words at the end which are actually not part of the song but mere comments.