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Subject: Re: language and location in "The Gods Must Be Crazy"
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> Shosholoza is in the tribal language of Steven Biko's tribe. It means "go in 
> peace", and is often used as a benidiction in native African Liturgies.
> (This is from memory, so it could be faulty). You can find a copy of the
> song on an album called "Dingaku"-which may be pressed by Mercury Records
> a couple of 3 years ago. It is hard to find...it was the soundtrack of an
> illegal film, I believe.
> 
> Greg

The song also appears on Peter Gabriel's EP `Biko', though slighty altered.
I have no idea if that is/was available here; I got my copy as an import
in Australia.  It was a few years ago, maybe about '81.

Kathy Morris
(decvax!decwrl!glacier!shasta!morris)