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Thirty-five selections from an HMV run of more than 400 78s—recordings made in Uganda and Kenya from the mid-1930s to the mid-1950s. Part 2 encompasses this material circa 1952-1957. Three main types of performance are featured. Most are minstrelsy, with songs ranging dazzlingly through subjects including loneliness and death, bastards and cut-off trousers, trains of fire and no-good rich people, a murder mystery and a drunken punch-up at a rumba party in Kampala, and metaphorical cocks, hard pedalling and kettles which won't boil. Other minstrels accompany themselves on various sorts of lyre, and guitars carrying the influences of U.S. country music and Congolese 78s, the influx of Congolese musicians, and the harmonies of Christian church music.