Translation of the song lyrics Home - Medine, Nassi

Home (original)

Home is all I have
Home is on my mind
Always in my head
Africa must survive
Home is all I have
Home is on my mind
Always in my head
Africa must survive
Africa must survive
Lorsqu’on tient l’Afrique par la corne d’ivoire
Elle n’a pas la forme d’un gun mais d’un porte-voix
Le monde, un échiquier où règnent les rois
Où les pions noirs ont toujours un coup de retard
Mais les porteurs d’eau savent aussi gérer les puits
Les écoles s’remplissent même si les cerveaux fuient
Notre histoire est lucide
Le berceau de l’humanité, c’est le tombeau de Lucy
On change une famine en grève de la faim
Si le mendiant opère, c’est pour faire don de la main
Lève les deux poings, Africain fier
Car les endettés d’hier seront les rentiers de demain
Nos lignes de vie rempliront les livres vides
Et détruiront les prisons de Libreville
En Amazigh ou en Swahili
Tout le monde sait dire «soyons libres»
Je veux toucher ce rêve auquel je ne peux croire
J’ai rêvé de ces pays où les hommes ont des droits
Mais l’illusion s’achève, à défaut de pouvoir
Tenir les rennes, que s’unissent nos sœurs et nos frères
Home is all I have
Home is on my mind
Always in my head
Africa must survive
Home is all I have
Home is on my mind
Always in my head
Africa must survive
Africa must survive
Ces quelques paroles servent de potion
Révèlent la lumière des peuples à la peau sombre
Appelle-moi «Médine, premier du nom»
J’viens du continent qu’on prend pour le grenier du monde
J’alarme les âmes charitables
Que le saint-bernard aboie parfois au pied du mauvais arbre
Sorti d’un braquage amical
L’Afrique est coiffée du bonnet de Cabral Amilcar
Porte la fierté comme une seconde peau
Comme un leader à lunettes du RDC Congo
J’suis un tatouage tribal dans une main de Fatma
J’réunis les hommes à la manière du Mahatma
Aux cris du Libyen libérable
Bientôt l’esclave limera les barreaux du Liberia
En Lingala ou en langue arabe
Tout le monde lit bien «liberta»
Je veux toucher ce rêve auquel je ne peux croire
J’ai rêvé de ces pays où les hommes ont des droits
Mais l’illusion s’achève, à défaut de pouvoir
Tenir les rennes, que s’unissent nos sœurs et nos frères
Home is all I have
Home is on my mind
Always in my head
Africa must survive
Home is all I have
Home is on my mind
Always in my head
Africa must survive
Africa must survive
Survive, yeah, yeah
Africa must survive
Home is on my mind
Always in my head, oh, oh
Africa must survive

Home (translation)

Home is all I have
Home is on my mind
Always in my head
Africa must survive
Home is all I have
Home is on my mind
Always in my head
Africa must survive
Africa must survive
When Africa is held by the ivory horn
She doesn't have the shape of a gun but of a megaphone
The world, a chessboard where kings reign
Where black pawns are always one step behind
But water carriers also know how to manage wells
The schools are filling up even if the brains are leaking
Our story is lucid
The Cradle of Humankind is Lucy's Tomb
Turning a famine into a hunger strike
If the beggar operates, it is to donate the hand
Raise both fists, proud African
For the indebted of yesterday will be the rentiers of tomorrow
Our lifelines will fill the empty books
And destroy the prisons of Libreville
In Amazigh or Swahili
Everybody knows how to say "let's be free"
I wanna touch this dream I can't believe
I dreamed of those countries where men have rights
But the illusion ends, for lack of power
Hold the reins, unite our sisters and our brothers
Home is all I have
Home is on my mind
Always in my head
Africa must survive
Home is all I have
Home is on my mind
Always in my head
Africa must survive
Africa must survive
These few words serve as a potion
Reveal the light of dark-skinned peoples
Call me "Medina, first of the name"
I come from the continent that we take for the attic of the world
I alarm charitable souls
May the Saint Bernard sometimes bark at the foot of the wrong tree
Came out of a friendly robbery
Africa is wearing the bonnet of Cabral Amilcar
Wear pride like a second skin
Like a bespectacled leader from the DRC Congo
I'm a tribal tattoo in a hand of Fatma
I bring men together like the Mahatma
To the cries of the releasable Libyan
Soon the slave will file the bars of Liberia
In Lingala or Arabic language
Everyone reads "liberta" well
I wanna touch this dream I can't believe
I dreamed of those countries where men have rights
But the illusion ends, for lack of power
Hold the reins, unite our sisters and our brothers
Home is all I have
Home is on my mind
Always in my head
Africa must survive
Home is all I have
Home is on my mind
Always in my head
Africa must survive
Africa must survive
Survive, yeah, yeah
Africa must survive
Home is on my mind
Always in my head, oh, oh
Africa must survive