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Compare [[Ominous Latin Chanting]].
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== [[Film]] - Animation ==
* The famous [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vX07j9SDFcc opening sunrise] in ''[[The Lion King]]'' is possibly the [[Trope Maker]] for more modern examples. It does sound better than most other examples listed, being an actual Zulu phrase.
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** 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 [[Dark Reprise]], "Breakout/It Comes With a Pool", from ''[[Dinosaur]]''.
== [[Film]] - Live Action ==
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* In the film ''[[Zulu]]'', the Zulu warriors sing a praise song lauding the British defenders as [[Worthy Opponent]]s before beginning their final assault.
* ''[[Road To|Road to Zanzibar]]'' has a bit of chanting titled "African Etude".
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* The [[Trope Namer]] is from the U.S. version of ''[[Whose Line Is It Anyway?
** When Brady was told the name of the game, "African Chant", [[Unfortunate Implications|he (understandably) did not react too well]].
{{quote|'''Wayne Brady:''' Hey, how come I gotta do the African Chant?
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** 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).
== [[Music]] ==
* "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" has a horribly convoluted history, but it was originally a South African pop song (and not a traditional folk piece as later credited) titled "Mbube", which had real Zulu chanting. What made it into the Tokens' version, "wimoweh", is a mispronunciation of the Zulu "uyimbube" ("he is a lion").
* [[Peter Gabriel]] 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".
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== [[Theatre]] ==
* ''[[Show Boat]]'': 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 [[Big Applesauce]] -- "our home just ain't Dahomey at all" but New York.
== [[Video Games]] ==
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** Mazuri in ''[[Sonic Unleashed]]''.
* ''[[Shivers]]'': Happens in the background music while in the Shaman room.
== [[Web Original]] ==
* [[That Guy With The Glasses|Doug Walker]] has... things to say about this trope:
{{quote|[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]}}
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* Zecora the zebra from ''[[My Little Pony:
* The ''[[Animaniacs]]'' parody of ''[[The Lion King]]'' has this:
{{quote|Ahhh la wain-ya! Ee-malla ee ya away!
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