Текст песни Le Bucheron - Manu Dibango

Franklin Boukaka - Le Bucheron Lyrics (Enlgish)

Ah e e Africa
Eh e Africa
O Lipanda
(Ah e e Africa
Eh e Africa
Where is your independence?)

Ah e e Africa
Eh e Africa
O Liberté
(Ah e e Africa
Eh e Africa
Where is your freedom?)

Kokata koni pasi
Soki na kati koteka pasi
(Cutting firewood is hard work
To sell this wood is another)

Na pasi oyo ya boye
Ngai na bana mawa, Nakoka te
(With this lot of misfortunes and children
I'm far from getting out)

Basusu oyo naponaka
Bawela bokonnzi
Pe na ba-voitures
(Some to whom I gave my voice
Have developed the greed of power
And fortune)
Bavoti tango ekomaka
Ngai nakomaka moto
Pona bango
(When the elections arrive
I become important then
In front of them)

Nakomi tuna:Mondele akende
Lipanda tozuwaka o ya nani e?
Africa e
(I wonder:has the colonizer gone,
For whom did we obtain independence?
Oh Africa!)

Ah e e Africa
Eh e Africa
O Lipanda
(Ah e e Africa
Eh e Africa
Where is your independence?)

Ah e e Africa
Eh e Africa
O Liberté
(Ah e e Africa
Eh e Africa
Where is your freedom?)