On a rainy day Melissa and I arrived to find only 15 to 20 children, and no teachers. So we sang some English songs with them for a long time and then they treated us to some Basotho songs.

‘Basotho Bana’ means ‘Basotho children’ or ‘children of Lesotho’.

Actually it’s ‘Bana ba Basotho’ and it does mean Basotho children. One thing we do in Lesotho is sing all the time. Everyone belongs, or has belonged, to a choir. Everyone sings as they walk or work. And within the group, everyone knows which voice to sing: bass, tenor, alto, or tsoetse, the high-pitched tone typical of young lads. See a previous post on music in Africa.