->''"Whaaaaaat's on the menuuuuuu? It could beeeeeee ceviiiiiiiiiche. Iiiiiiit's stinkyyyyyyy. Oooooooh it's Pumbaaaaaaa ..."''
-->-- '''Timon''', [[{{Mondegreen}} making up the possible lyrics for]] ''Disney/TheLionKing'' opening, ''The Lion King 1½''

The unknown depths of the jungle are shown. The film cuts to a quieter scene, the JungleDrums beat, and some random AfricanChant comes from the music. While sometimes the chant may be real, most of the time its just [[AsLongAsItSoundsForeign random phrases of Swahili or Zulu in order for it to mean]] ''[[AsLongAsItSoundsForeign something]]''.

Compare OminousLatinChanting and OneWomanWail.
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!!Examples:

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[[folder:{{Film}} - Animation]]
* The famous [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vX07j9SDFcc opening sunrise]] in ''Disney/TheLionKing'' is possibly the TropeMaker for more modern examples. It does sound better than most other examples listed, being an actual Zulu phrase.
--->Nants ingonyama! Bagaithi baba!
--->Sithikum, ingonyama nyeh!
--->Se nkoba
--->Ingonyama, ngong iiyamabala
--->Ingonyama, ngong iiyamabala
--->Ingonyama, ngong iiyamabala
--->Ingonyama, ngong iiyamabala
--->[[{{Mondegreen}} Sitho kwaa]]
** The trope is [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] in the POVSequel, as quoted above
** Rafiki's African Chant while taunting Simba is also a real African phrase. It means, "Thank you very much. Squashed banana. You are a baboon, and I am not."
* "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRUcijyTvRs Courtship]]" and its DarkReprise, "Breakout/It Comes With a Pool", from ''Disney/{{Dinosaur}}''.
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[[folder:{{Film}} - Live Action]]
* The go-to-guy if you want genuine African chants: ''Lebo M''.
* ''Film/{{District 9}}'' has this in a few scenes.
* ''Film/{{Avatar}}'' is notorious of this in the scenes with the Navi tribes.
* In the film ''The Power of One'', the song "Mother Africa", as well as the concert, in which the native Africans insult their oblivious white audience.
* In the film ''{{Zulu}}'', the Zulu warriors sing a praise song lauding the British defenders as {{Worthy Opponent}}s before beginning their final assault.
* ''[[RoadTo Road to Zanzibar]]'' has a bit of chanting titled "African Etude".
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[[folder:LiveActionTV]]
* The TropeNamer is from the U.S. version of ''Series/WhoseLineIsItAnyway'', which had a game called African Chant. It involved Wayne Brady singing to an audience member in the style of an African Chant, but the real comedy comes from the three other comedians singing and dancing in the background.
** When Brady was told the name of the game, "African Chant", [[UnfortunateImplications he (understandably) did not react too well]].
-->'''Wayne Brady:''' Hey, how come I gotta do the African Chant?
-->'''Drew Carey:''' Because Colin would screw it up.
* ''The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency'' TV series has this on occasion, with real African.
* Sally Cruikshank produced a series of animated inserts for ''Series/SesameStreet'' involving counting up to a certain number, with the highest being 19 and the lowest being 13 (according to Muppet Wiki, there is no animation for 20).
** Another animated ''Sesame Street'' skit involving counting to a certain number had number emerge out of seashells while a chant sounding like "Bading-a-ding bada-bading-a-ding" can be heard in the background.
** Two alphabet songs from the same show are even sung to African tribal music.
* "Mystery Animal" from ''{{Zoboomafoo}}'' (sung over an animation where a cartoon blob is shown morphing into the animal featured in the episode).
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[[folder:{{Music}}]]
* "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" has a horribly convoluted history, but it was originally a South African song titled "Mbube", which had real Zulu chanting.
* PeterGabriel takes this and makes it his favorite instrument. See "In Your Eyes" and "Biko" for examples.
* The Christian song ''Siyahamba'', often translated in English as "We are Marching in the light of God".
* {{Shakira}}'s "Waka Waka". Justified.
* Zulu chanting is present in several tracks on PaulSimon's ''Graceland'', featuring most prominently in "Homeless", [[TearJerker where a choir of black singers lament about the destruction of their homes in a storm]].
* [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Music/LionelRichie Lionel Richie]] gives us ''All Night Long.''
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[[folder:{{Theatre}}]]
* ''ShowBoat'': The Dahomey dancers in the 1893 World's Fair sequence frighten off white visitors with their frenzied chanting and barbaric manners, then reveal it's a load of BigApplesauce -- "our home just ain't Dahomey at all" but New York.
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[[folder:VideoGames]]
* The 'Baba Yetu' opening-sequence from ''VideoGame/{{Civilization}} 4''. It's actually just a Swahili rendition of the Lord's Prayer - but in Swahili, it comes across as some sort of tribal chant.
* In MacroZone forest levels of ''VideoGame/SeriousSam II'' and some of the jungle levels, a fight music has these stock sounds.
* The Adventure Field's Mystic Ruins in ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure''.
** Mazuri in ''SonicUnleashed''.
* ''{{Shivers}}'': Happens in the background music while in the Shaman room.
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[[folder:WebOriginal]]
* [[Website/ThatGuyWithTheGlasses Doug Walker]] has... things to say about this trope:
[[http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/specials/29706-dougs-top-10-movies-he-hates-but-everyones-else-loves Fast-forward to 32:30]]
[[http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/specials/30502-dougs-top-10-worst-cliches Fast forward to #5]]
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[[folder:WesternAnimation]]
* Zecora the zebra from ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', speaks and chants african-esque sounds which freaks all the ponies of Ponyville out and they assume she's evil. WordOfGod is that they wanted her to be speaking authentic Swahili in ''Bridle Gossip'', but they didn't have the time or resources. Instead, they got the voice actor to make up some African-sounding gibberish. [[http://images.wikia.com/mlp/images/9/91/Swahili.png Lauren Faust said that she likes to imagine Zecora is speaking Zebra in lieu of Swahili.]]
* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' parody of ''Disney/TheLionKing'' has this:
--->Ahhh la wain-ya! Ee-malla ee ya away!
--->Oom balla ee ya walla ling goo
--->Ee oola coola yalla din doo
--->Oo day loo ee-a totta malla
--->I no ees joost a lota walla
* "Circle of Poo" from ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark''.
* [[TheItchyandScratchyShow ''Itchy and Scratchy: The Musical'']] featured background chants sounding like "Itchy Scratchy, Itchy Itchy Scratchy..."
* ''WesternAnimation/TheCritic'' brought us another parody of ''Disney/TheLionKing'' with ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=FNvuZF27lRI#t=229s The Cockroach King]]'', starring HowardStern.
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