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Fondinkeeya

from Badinyaa Kumoo by Sona Jobarteh

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This song is dedicated to the need for curriculum reform across Africa in order to fully break free from the education systems implemented during the colonial era. Education has been an essential tool for indoctrinating
the minds of Africans in order to pave the way for colonisation, and to maintain the exploitation of the continent and its people which continues to feed international financial growth. Our education system still influences Africans from a young age to revere anything that does not look like, sound like or behave like them, thus nurturing a deep sense of inferiority and cultural rejection. Education is a vital foundation block in changing mentality, and it is my conviction that by rewriting our education system we are directly strengthening the bigger mission of real sustainable development, and building a powerful road towards the self-determination, self-governance and economic self-sustainability of our African nations. I call for an education system that places the history, culture and identity of the African child at the centre of their everyday academic education. This song is written in a very unfamiliar time-signature for this tradition (in the count of seven), symbolising reformation, the call for change, and the hopes for the future which lie in investing in our young, as our leaders, role models and changemakers of tomorrow.

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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

credits

from Badinyaa Kumoo, track released September 23, 2022
Composed and Produced by Sona Jobarteh
Lead Vocals / Backing Vocals / Guitars / Bass / Percussion: Sona Jobarteh
Drum Kit: Westley Joseph
Congas and brushes: Miroca Paris
Chorus Vocals: Gambia Academy Students: (Rohey Badjie, Hulaynatou Jallow and Mariama Saho) and Sona Jobarteh
Mixed by Femi Temowo
Mastered by Chris Pavey

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