Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Kokoro, artist - Fatoumata Diawara. Date of issue: 31.10.2019
Song language: English
Kokoro |
| 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 civilisation, 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? |