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Fatoumata Diawara Kokoro
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Listen Fenfo : https://fatoumatadiawara.lnk.to/fenfo • ON TOUR : https://fatoumatadiawara.lnk.to/Trianon • Videoclip Director: legendemali • Follow her : • http://www.fatoumatadiawara.com/ • / fatoumata_d. . • / fatoumusic • / fatoudiawara • / fatoumata_d. . • • **ENGLISH LYRICS** • Kokoro (Ancestral Heritage) • Why are we not proud of who we are? We are black Africans, descendants of Sunjata Keita, the emperor of the Mandé people. We have our own culture and civilization, which we must be proud of. Instead, we want to look like Westerners, Chinese, Asians, and Arabs by bleaching our skin, selling off our land and resources, and adopting their fashions. As a result, we are lost and our traditions escape us. So who will come to defend our African dignity in our place? • • Let’s not turn our back on our traditions • Let’s embrace them, be proud of them • • Let’s not abandon our traditions • We need to welcome them, like a miracle • Let’s not turn our back on them • • They want to destroy our traditional values • Because we are Africans • We have lost all our cultural references • Because they see us as slaves • Our ancestors have abandoned us • They want to kill our traditions • Because we are Africans • Our human warmth is disappearing • I bow before our ancestral traditions, mother • I pray to the spirits of our ancestors • I bow before our ancestral traditions • • Why are we not proud of who we are? • We try to look like Europeans, by bleaching our skin • We try to look like the Chinese and sell off our resources to them • We think that being Muslim means to cover ourselves from top to toe • We want to look like Indians by applying their bindi to our forehead • Who will carry on Sunjata’s heritage? • I, Diawara Fanta proudly stand up and vow to carry on the ancestral heritage • Who will build Africa for us? Who will live the African life in our stead? • We have lost all our cultural references to western culture • If we do not respect ourselves, no one will ever respect us • Why are we not proud of who we are?
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