Music

In this book the setting was in tribal Africa so the music was more like chants.
"Who will wrestle for our village?
Okafo will wrestle for our village.
Has he thrown a hundred men?
He has thrown four hundred men.
Has he thrown a hundred Cats?
He has thrown four hundred Cats.
Then send him word of fight for us."
Most of the songs are like this. They do not really have much meaning besides the obvious. The songs are, however, relavent to what the tribes people are experiencing. Like when the kotma come and start punishing them they sing this:
"Kotma of the ask buttocks,
He is fit to be a slave.
The white man has no sense,
He is fit to be a slave."
The people there sing songs to express how they are feeling and what it directly affecting them in a positive and negative way.