OT: "Ai kama zimba zimba zayo"

[Mark Mandel]

On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 10:46 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks, Mark, I read somewhere or other that Wimoweh was a corruption,
> mishearing, whatever, of Mbube. Hard to feature that, but you never
> know. However "uyimbube" takes the question to the HNL. "(A-)Wimoweh"
> < "uyimbube" is a derivation that I can take at face value.
>
> -Wilson
>

HNL = higher __ level ??

Mark

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