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South Africa, Miriam Makeba

Nongqongqo (To Those We Love)

Bahleli bonke etilongweni
Bahleli bonke kwa Nongqongqo
Hi, hi, hi, hi halala
Nanku, nanku nanku uSobukhwe
Nanku, nanku etilongweni
Hi bawo Luthuli
Hayi, uzotheni uzotheni
Nanko, nanko, nanko uMandela
Nanko, nanko etilongweni
Nanko, nanko, nanko uSisulu
Nanko, nanko etilongweni
Yini wema-Afrika
Hayi uzotheni? uzotheni?
Bahleli bonke etilongweni
Bahleli bonke kwa Nongqongqo

They are sitting together in prison
They are sitting together at Nongqongqo
(Nongqongqo is the name of
a prison in South Africa).
“Hi” is a cry of pain.
“Halala” is an exclamation of the cry.
Here he is, Here is Sobukwe
Here he is, here he is in prison
‘Bawo’ in Xhosa means father.
Luthuli was the President of the ANC
and won the 1960 Nobel Peace Prize.
Why do you deserve this?/
What have you done wrong?
There he is, There is Mandela/Sisulu
There he is, there he is in prison,
What is it Africans?/What’s wrong with us?
No, what have you done wrong,
what have you done wrong?
They are sitting together in prison
They are sitting together at Nongqongqo

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from The Soulful Singers in Concert, released May 19, 2015

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"Today like every other day we wake up empty and frightened.
Don't open the door to the study and begin reading. Take down a musical instrument.
Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground." Rumi

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