History Main / AfricanChant

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---->''Nants' ingonyama bagaithi baba!''
---->''Sithi hum, ingonyama!''
---->''Siyo nqoba!''
---->''Ingonyama nengw' enamabala''
---->''Ingonyama nengw' enamabala''
---->''Ingonyama nengw' enamabala''
---->''Ingonyama nengw' enamabala''
---->Sitho kwaa

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* ''Film/{{District 9}}'' has this in a few scenes.

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-->'''Wayne Brady:''' Hey, how come I gotta do the African Chant?
-->'''Creator/DrewCarey:''' Because Colin would screw it up.

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---> Ahhh la wain-ya! Ee-malla ee ya away!\\

* James Cameron's ''Film/{{Avatar}}'' has some Na'vi chants meant to invoke this trope.

* Music/PeterGabriel takes this and makes it his favorite instrument, often using contributions from actual Africans. For instance, [[Music/{{Melt}} "Biko"]] opens and closes with samples of protest chants from the titular activist's funeral, while [[Music/{{So}} "In Your Eyes"]] feature Wolof-language guest vocals from Senegalese singer Youssou N'Dour.

* Music/PeterGabriel takes this and makes it his favorite instrument. See "In Your Eyes" and "Biko" for examples.

* ''Film/{{Black Panther|2018}}'' has a specific theme for the Dora Milaje warriors composed by Music/LudwigGoransson, consisting of a group of Senegalese women 'yipping', which director Creator/RyanCoogler described as a "chu chu" sound. It's reprised in ''Series/TheFalconAndTheWinterSoldier''.

* Music/JohnnyClegg's "Asimbonanga" is sometimes used in media to this effect, to say nothing of its covers and remixes by non-South African musicians.

* ''Film/{{Black Panther|2018}}'' has a specific theme for the Dora Milaje warriors composed by Music/LudwigGoransson, consisting of a group of Senegalese women 'yipping', which director Creator/RyanCoogler described as a "chu chu" sound.

* ''VideoGame/{{Shivers}}'': Happens in the background music while in the Shaman room.

* ''Itchy and Scratchy: The Musical'' featured background chants sounding like "Itchy Scratchy, Itchy Itchy Scratchy..."

* "Circle of Poo" from ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark''.
* ''[[WesternAnimation/TheItchyandScratchyShow Itchy and Scratchy: The Musical]]'' featured background chants sounding like "Itchy Scratchy, Itchy Itchy Scratchy..."

* The Zulu musical group Ladysmith Black Mambazo provided the soundtrack to Creator/RabbitEarsProductions' [[https://archive.org/details/howtheleopardgothisspots animated adaptation]] of "[[Literature/JustSoStories How the Leopard Got His Spots]]."

* Several are included in the score to ''Whispers: An Elephant's Tale'', with a particularly glorious one (which crops up frequently throughout, serving as the main theme) featured at the opening.

* The '[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJiHDmyhE1A 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--but a truly epic one worthy of being the soundtrack to a whole history of, erm, civilization.
* The Zulu from the sequel ''VideoGame/{{Civilization}} 5'' also have one (technically two) as their theme song.
* Once again, the Zulu in ''VideoGame/{{Civilization}} 6'' have one. It's actually a medley of several real life Zulu folk songs.

* African-sounding vocals pervade singer/songwriter Erutan's 2013 single, "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHrqu_bsjtw Across the Sunlands"]].

*** The famous opening sunrise is possibly the TropeMaker for more modern examples. It does sound better than most other examples listed, as it was written in authentic Zulu.

* "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" has a horribly convoluted history, but it was originally a South African folk song titled "Mbube", which had real Zulu chanting.

-->-- '''Timon''', [[{{Mondegreen}} making up the possible lyrics for]] ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994'' opening, ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKingOneAndAHalf''

---->[[{{Mondegreen}} Sitho kwaa]]
*** Rafiki's chant while taunting Simba -- ''Asante sana, squash banana, we we nugu mi mi hapana'' -- is also a real Swahili phrase. It means, "Thank you very much, [mister] squashed banana! You are a baboon, and I am not!" And it's definitely [[{{Mondegreen}} not]] "Squash bananas up his ass".

* Zulu chanting pervades Music/PaulSimon's ''Music/{{Graceland}}'', mainly "[[UptownGirl Diamonds on the Soles of her Shoes]]", "[[HollywoodMidLifeCrisis You Can Call Me Al"]], and "[[TearJerker Homeless]]" , which consists almost ''entirely'' of this. {{Justified}} in that Ladysmith Black Mambazo -- one of South Africa's greatest musical groups -- contributed to the album.

---->''Nants ingonyama bagaithi baba!''

--->[[AsLongAsItSoundsForeign Ahhh la wain-ya! Ee-malla ee ya away!\\

I no ees joost a lota walla]]

* ''WesternAnimation/AnimatedTalesOfTheWorld'': "How Tortoise Won Respect" features the Zulu- or Xhosa-language song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBaRcNjk5zc "Fudukazi Uzokumangaza"]], which is first heard in the background in the beginning, and is sung again over the end credits.

* Zulu chanting is pervades in Music/PaulSimon's ''Music/{{Graceland}}'', mainly "[[UptownGirl Diamonds on the Soles of her Shoes]]", "[[HollywoodMidLifeCrisis You Can Call Me Al"]], and "[[TearJerker Homeless]]" , which consists almost ''entirely'' of this.

** ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994'':

---->''Sithikum, ingonyama!''

* ''WesternAnimation/TheCritic'' has a parody of ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994'' with ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=FNvuZF27lRI#t=229s The Cockroach King]]'', starring Creator/HowardStern.

* "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" has a horribly convoluted history, but it was originally a South African song titled "Mbube", which had real Zulu chanting.

* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' parody of ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994'' 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