poverty

Coupe bibamba

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  • Coupe bibamba View all from Awilo Longomba
    Coupe bibamba
    Awilo Longomba
    3:38
    4
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIuokoIeU34
    Awilo Longomba
    1998

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Comment tu t'appelle
Je m'appelle
Comment tu t'appelle
Je m'appelle

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Uzubuye

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  • Uzubuye View all from Zola
    Ibutho
    Zola
    Zulu, English
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcSGnOwjFdQ
    Bonginkosi Mduduzi Dlamini
    2006

Cleva ungajola nabocherrie abayi hundred mawuthanda
Mara uthole kuthi akulungi nex
Ngoba kukhona i cherry eyi one in your past
That you still have unfinished business with
Lalela sweety

Chorus x2
Uzophinde uzubuye
Uzophinde uzubuye
Uzophinde uzubuye
They told me that you're leaving uzobuya
Uzophinde uzubuye

The Motlatle lady bese ujola notsotsi
Somehow you always blame me for losing baby eyami
And so I got angry, made friends no gavini
The fights got dirty
Making love felt empty
Sometimes ngikuzw'ukhala ebsuku ulele ezingubeni
And when I try to touch indololwane is

Umunt'onjani lo

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  • Umunt'onjani lo View all from Ntando
    Imvelaphi
    Ntando, Nhlanhla Nciza
    Xhosa
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BoTe2hdS0M
    Ntando Bangani
    2005

Chorus 2x
Ngumunt'onjani lona
Onjani lona
Ongafun'ukuzwa yo yo
Fun'ukuzwa
Ngumntonjani lona
Onjani lona
Ongafun'ukuzwa yo yo
Ukumamela

Impilo yethu inzima aph'ekhaya
Abantwana bayalila balambile okudeni
Sekunjena ngiyabuza ngobangazi
Ubumnyama busehlelele aph'ekhaya oku utata wasishiya
Ohh ngoku ngiyindoda mina ndiyidoda
Ndiyahamba ndithi ndiyekeleni ndiyekeleni

Repeat Chorus

Bhuti wami awundimamele
It's time to make a change
And turn your life around
Think about your sister
Think about your mother
They're looking up to you hay hay

I was stabbed by Satan

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  • I was stabbed by Satan View all from K'Naan
    The dusty foot philosopher
    K'Naan
    English
    3:52
    6
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0kU1itsoxo
    K'Naan Warsame
    2005

(talking)
1,2
1,2

Chorus
I was stabbed by Satan on the day that i was born
I was promised loving, but instead I was torn,
La la la, la la la, my heart bled fear
La la la, la la la, my eyes shed tears

Verse 1
A poor black ghetto child
He can’t shoot and he can't go run them out
There’s no school and the kids go runnin wild
The police and the court wanna run them out
He’s so cold, and the po po hate em all
He ain't seen his daddy since back in ‘84
But oh well so it be, now he's in jail
His mothers stressin just to get him out

Strugglin

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  • Strugglin View all from K'Naan
    Dusty foot philosopher
    K'Naan
    English
    4:30
    3
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzmF-j3TiGk
    K'Naan Warsame
    2005

Intro
Yeah, yeah, it's me, struggling

Verse 1
I start out, just to vibe out
I ain't about to bow out
I'm more gangsta than you are but I ain't about the rau rau
My season will come, it has to
Honestly I feel like I'm ten months pregnant or something
I am past due
Sincerely I'm touchy these days I can't take nothing
I'm tryna treat my record like the law shit
I'm dying to break something
And mostly, I'm up and stressing, when other folks sleep
Believe me, I know struggle, and struggle knows me
My life owes me, like an overdose I'm slowly
Drifti

Binadamu

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  • Binadamu View all from A-Y
    Binadamu
    A-Y, Maurice Kirya, Hamdee Kiwamba
    Luganda, Swahili, English
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzSolNRhBDM
    Ambwene Allen Yessayah

Intro
This is A.Y from Tanzania
Maurice Kirya and Hamdee from Uganda
It’s a dedication to all Africans living in poverty

Verse 1
Usiombee mambo yaharibike
Pesa usiishike, mfano wa mti upukutike
Utaonekana si lolote si chochote
Utaonekana karaha kwa watu siku zote
Walimwengu hawatakupa mikono
Magonjwa yatakuvuta ndani ya shimo
Utakata tamaa, utaandama na balaa
Pumzi hutovuta kwa raha, kweli usiombee kuwahi
Survive for fittest
Never trust nobody in this world of weakness
Watakukana hata kama ndugu zako
Watadiriki sema hawajui hutokako
Mama ach

Human being

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  • Human being View all from Wanlov
    Green card
    Wanlov da Kuborlor
    English
    4:27
    4
    Emmanuel Owusu Bonsu
    2007

Hook
If my brother dey struggle for Kenya
I be Kenyan oh
If my sister dey struggle for Nigeria
I be Nigerian oh
If my brother dey struggle for Somalia
I be Somalian oh
If my sister dey struggle for Romania
I be Romanian oh

Chorus
I be human being oh 4x
Just like you
I be human being oh 4x
Just like you 2x

Verse 1
All we want is a little piece of bread and mind
You keep the rest 4x
Born into this world just like you yet I
don't have a say 4x
Wen gunmen com to split my family I pray
Please go away 4x
I'm hoping that you

Comm centre

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  • Comm centre View all from Castro Destroyer
    Comme centre
    Castro Destroyer
    Twi
    6:15
    1
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lA1WSlx3Ino
    Theophilus Tagoe
    2007

Oh, hwɛ bra no
Yese wɔayɛ dɛn
Hwɛ, sɛ neɛ a, ɔne girl no nenam fɛfɛɛfɛ
Nkrofɔ keka sɛ, girl no abusuafoɔ ɛnni sika
Nanso ɔpɛ no saa
Yo, obi nyɛ ne biribi kwa
Sɛ Yesu papa was a carpenter a
Na me girl no nso yɛ choirister
Ɛneɛ no yawa, fire
Ei wuo
Hwɛ, Beat no gyegye bobɔ wɔ ne mu dɛdɛ bɔnbɔn, enɛ bɔnbɔn
Ɛnɛ bɔnbɔn, enɛ bɔn bɔn bɔn
Maba bio (2x)
Under fire
Ei wuo

Chorus 2x
After the comm center
Some girl dey there, she be choirister

24th (polythene bag)

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  • 24th (polythene bag) View all from Kaakyire Kwame Appiah
    24th
    Kaakyire
    Twi
    6:15
    3
    Kaakyire Kwame Appiah
    1993

Bronya o!

Chorus 1 2x
Obi nkasɛɛ 24th, kɔ wo kurom
Woara wohwɛ wo living ɛne ɔbra a, wowɔ mu a
Wobɛtɔ polythene bagge na wode wo nnoɔma agu mu
Wobɛkɔ akurase, na woakɔdi bronya o

Big dreams - sometimes I try to make them true

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Originally written on June 8, 2005

Big dreams - Sometimes I try to make them true ...Sounds on da ground and seens on the see-ins

I have always had great ambition, big dreams and difficult goals I set for myself. Maybe it stems from the heights people around me have reached or the joy that comes with accomplishment. These traits could have been embedded in my personality because of the environment I grew up in and other situations I found myself in. So when I heard the 'lyrics' of Wutah's 'Big dreams' the other day, I wondered if other people who may not have been academically, socially and financially fortunate like me also had 'big dreams'. If they did, how did they realise them?

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