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Musolou
07:41
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Fondinkeeya
05:43
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LYRICS:
500 years
have gone by
since our independence was gained
What have we done?
To break the chains of mental domination
Now, tell me, what has changed?
Still the legacy of colonialism dominates us
Have we freed our minds from foreign domination?
Where is our wealth?
Where are our resources
Where is our independence
Where are the benefits of our land that we fought for?
An education system that disempowers us
nurtures our underdevelopment
We wonder
why our people leave the continent
We teach them foreign history and foreign culture, in foreign languages…
Our culture
Our history
Our languages
Still banished from our schools
We defend a system
Designed to keep Africans dependant
Education is powerful
Truly powerful
More powerful than weapons
Teach my child her own culture and history
Teach my child to develop her own nation
Teach my child to be a proud African
Our future is bright in your hands
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She didn't know
Her toy was a bomb
Her purity, innocence ripped away
In agony
What did she do to deserve this life?
Tiny bodies gasp for air polluted by death
Lives sacrificed for power and money
I cry
Our hearts burn
Our souls mourn
Deliver them
From this world
All the pain
All the torture
Our gifts from God destroyed
Just for greed
Sweet child
Close your eyes
Your death brings fortune to the streets of the powerful cities
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Ubuntu
05:12
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A mother mourns
Her child gone
A life lost
A father cries
His life torn apart in a flash
These lives
Are real
Like you and me
The pain, the love and the loss
It hits us the same way
In Africa, traditions say
We are one
Protect our humanity
Don’t learn to fight,
Fight to love
Be careful
This world can destroy your human spirit
Built on greed, selfishness and blood money
From a young age
They teach us to defeat one another instead of support each other
Just one touch
One word,
One smile
Can save someone
Hear me,
Im calling on the spirit inside all of us
Our greatest gift is to see others as we see ourself
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Gambia
05:10
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Generations go by
But still the pain burns, inside
Our lives, slaughtered by the brutal hand of evil
[No mercy]
Identity, torn
Piece by painful piece
From us
[No mercy]
My anger burns
Corrupted history loads the powerful weapon of ignorance
Our brothers, our sisters
Our sons and our daughters
Slaughtered
For your luxury
Tell me, when will truth be told?
Our spirit…
They stole our identities
They tortured our humanity
They oppressed our minds
They divided our hearts
But our spirit can never be broken
Never…
Here we are, 400 years later
Our lives still devalued
Our consciousness confused, divided
Forever turning against each other
Ancestors, you fought for us
We will carry your name
Ancestors, you sacrificed for us
We will never forget… never…
Never forget our martyrs
Cherish them
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Meeya
05:30
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Abandoned, desolate
Our monuments falling and crumbling
Our cultures, abandoned/neglected/rejected
Our history, lost/gone
Meanwhile
You crowd around foreign monuments
Abandoning your own
Nothing should erase your history
The future
Is built on history and culture
Erase it..
Then tell me, what remains
Why, why…
Our artefacts taken, we do nothing
(when) they were robbed from us
False stories nurtured
Just to devalue you
Value what is yours
Value our own history
Value your own history
Know your history
Preserve your own history
Preserve your history
Celebrate what belongs to you
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N'na Duniyaa
04:50
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VERSE 1:
Nying duniyaa kono
Koleyaal ka ké lé
Duniyaa si n’nyoo’séeyaa
Bari, wo nyaawo’nyaa
Kano néné té burr’ka la
Kano
Meng mu n’na sorri féng baa ti
Nyang’ta ka duniyaa buu’nyaa a’ning a’baluwoo méng baa kono
CHORUS:
Indalo, ah
Ulimi lumoya ndalo, ah
Masiyi la lele ndalo, ah
(Repeated)
Masiyi la lele indalo
VERSE 2:
Too’nyaa lem
Nying duniyaa té féng ti
Bari a’sembo si i’tinyaa noo lé
Duniyaa tanka méng yé baluwoo dii ila
Khonza’ umhlab’ omkhulu
Inkaba yethu ilapho
Indawo yobungcwele
Kulempilo eyonakele
Aaaa eyaya yooo
CHORUS:
Indalo, ah
Ulimi lumoya ndalo, ah
Masiyi la lele ndalo, ah
(Repeated)
Masiyi la lele indalo
OUTRO:
Eeee indalo ilimele
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