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Rastaman
04:06
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Paraphrased from Mandinka: Rasta isn’t about negativity. It doesn’t make anyone a criminal or a lunatic. It doesn’t make someone to be less trustworthy. It’s about unity. And repatriation of anybody who identifies themselves as African to Africa.
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Cilong Sissa
04:16
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Translated from Mandinka: You will know me soon. The kids of the griot are here. The children of the Susos. The Susos are a griot family. Vocalist Sambou praises the ancestry, great-grandfather Bamba Jali, Bambugu Madi who established the family home in Bako Demba Kunda in Gambia.
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Gambiala
04:52
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Nina Tolla
05:53
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Translated from Mandinka: Whether your powerful, or beautiful, or poor – one day will come where your deeds will and nothing will prevent us from our day coming to die. And on that day, we will have to present ourselves to the most high.
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Ajama
03:14
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Bading
06:20
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Translation from Mandinka: Those who are well off have to help those who are less well off. People who have more knowledge help those who have less knowledge to make them a better person
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Dinna
05:50
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Translation from Mandinka: Thank you women for birthing and raising the children. The men folk are away. The rice is ripe. The maize is ripe. The millet is ripe in my mother’s farm. I want it so give it to me. Thank you for the crops. Thank you for our children.
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Molu
06:02
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'Molu Bife' means 'the people like you' in Mandinka.
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Barra
03:24
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Kanakumbo
04:31
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