Songbird going back over a village in Africa (5)
I believe the answer is:
kraal
'village in africa' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'songbird going back over a' is the wordplay.
'songbird' becomes 'lark' (I've seen this before).
'going back' shows that the letters should be reversed in order.
'over' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'lark' backwards is 'kral'.
'kral' placed around 'a' is 'KRAAL'.
(Other definitions for kraal that I've seen before include "Pen" , "African hut-village" , "African hutted village" , "African village enclosure" , "Corral" .)