When you get artists from across a country as culturally diverse as Mali producing a song, you end up with a wonderful mixture of languages and cultural styles. In this superb video there is singing and rapping in Bambara, Sonniké, Songhai, Tamasheq and even a little French.
This is the Mali I love; colourful, welcoming and amazingly musical.
Bruce does a great job of unpacking the lyrics to this song – it isn’t quite as straightforward as it seems at first.
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And in the Fulfulde language too! From 3:40-3:50
Yo bena Alla ko annde golle Mali meeɗen
mali meeɗen, won ko jaasi …
My Fulfulde is rusty, but something about God knows the work to be done in our Mali, something is lacking…
I wondered if there was some Fulfuldé in there, but I couldn’t pick it out. Thanks, Doug.