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Translation:

Tell me my people
Where in the world do people dance like we do
Tell me my sister
Where in the world do women move the waist like you do
So why would anyone refuse to enjoy this music
It is so sweet

Even if things are hard
My fellow people
Let's not forget our Africa
Africa is our mother

This land of ours is so amazing
Everybody knows it has plenty of wealth in it
When I see the mountains and rivers
And when I see all our animals I wish for ask to take care of it
So we can pass it all on to our children

I call upon all my people
High and low let's all come together and change things
From the academics to the farmer, to the metal worker
let's unite and fix our land
Even if you get tired of hearings about Africa I won't stop
Till the day we are united I won't stop
My name is Mapumba
You will remember me on the day we will unite
One Africa is what everybody is truly wishing for

Everybody has their talent
Discover yours
Learn well, in and out, high and low
Tomorrow you'll say, that's my job
Myself here, music is my work
I will never stop

Yekele yekele
My love, Africa mama is my love
Mother of many children
My love Africa mama, my love
Even if they ask me to stop, I will never stop
Let them know, let them know
All over the world let them know

Many of them try to understand
Why the African sound never dies
How the African sound always live
And the children are born with a dancing in their bodies
Everybody dances. But they can't beat the African Dance baby
It's so sexy so crazy so nice

lyrics

Original:

Ndugu yangu unyambiye weye
Fazi gani muduniya wana pika muziki sa shiye
Dada yangu uni oneshe wana wake fazigani wana vunji kivuno sa weye
Sasa nju ya nini utakatala kupenda mukini yetu iyi mama ikobutamu

Ata mambo ikujengu je we ndugu yangu ishisabwe Africa yako
Afrikca njo mama

Uyu udongo wetu wiko muzuri sana toka Cape fika Cairo
Ndani ni mali na mali wote wanajuwa
Nikione bilima namitoni kuona banyama ninapenda tubichunge muzuri na siye twachiye batoto

Africa njo mama

Mimi naita ndugu yangu yote yulu na chini kujeni tugeuze mambo
We wamukanda weye wa mashamba, we wakazi ya byuma
Kujeni tweke akili fazi moja tugeuze mukini

Ataa muchoke mimbo ya Africa mimi ta imba
Kufika siku tuta ungana mimi taimba
Jina langu ni mapumba, muta nikumbuka, siku tuta ungana
Afrika moja kile njole nawe unataka tuu

Tout le monde a son don, découvrir yako uyijuwe muzuri dani na inje
Yulu na chini kesho uta sema jno kazi yako jno kazi yako
Miye lwangu apa chena ndekela weh musiki
Yekeleyekele oh
Munaga Afrika wanyi munanga
Afrika wanyi weh
shabana wanyi eh afrika wanyi eh
mama mama wanyi
yekeleyekele yoh yoh Afrika wanyi yeh
Nansha bamba bamba chena ndekela
Bamanya bamanya duniya yote bajuwe mzuri

Nofa dem try fi understand How com di African sound never die
How dhi African sound always live and the babies them born
with them wine in them body
Dhem wine and everywhere body them can’t beat the Africa wine baby

It’s so sexy so crazy so nice eh

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from Mapumba, released June 1, 2006

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Mapumba Cape Town, South Africa

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