We Travel with Mom, and Pete Seeger, to Pretoria

“He Motsoala” is our favorite African travel song. Pete Seeger and the Song Swappers reworked a traditional South African song into “He Motsoala” for their Bantu Choral Folk Songs recording. Seeger’s version of “He Motsoala” — and ours — is about a mother who travels to the South African city of Pretoria to buy a license for the wedding of her daughter.