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DU SENEGAL ET D’AILLEURS
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Goree: A History, A Journey, A Prayer Lire Ce Poeme En: Wolof Francais
Gorée is a history Served by a tragedy It’s springs up On a volcanic rock pulled From the bowels of the earth Outburst One night of tide set ablaze Fire of bottom hearth Fire of high hearth Light shining in the Moon Light shining in the Sun Spirit of Thunder Bright Eye in the depth of tempest Fire of the Sun Which gives us Light Ndek Daawur Kumba Bang And Kumba Lambaay Gorée was the born word to say
here : Liberty So named at a late dawn of the
world But early devoted To the free conquest of the New
World. And yet how many trials ! And yet what a lot of dead people
! And yet how many pains ! While the Great History is born With the white-dressed lady Of Anrouhet in that rich Sahara At the epoch of Pharaoh on the
banks of the Nile At the epoch of the Sumerian Ennil
on the Euphrates and the Tiger At the epoch of Tamil on the Indus At the epoch of Mansa, Mai, Oni
and Mze Immigrating On the Niger, Congo and Zambezi In the Sahel, the Savanna and
Forests. Under the shade of Roo and Zarnbia Ogun and Ama God Sun and God Moon God of Water and God of Fire God of the B!rth and God of the
Sky! In those times This island is still reserved by
History Beaten by trade-winds. It's waiting here in the West for
Biram Kumba Njeeme and the Jolof And there in the East cornes into
sight Sunjata and the Maali He's Sunjata who will bear the
empire Mëysa Wali the Red Imperator
succeeds after him Then Baakari the first named'
Mansa But he's Sankara that of the
pyramid The prisoner liberator of the
crown Who takes hold of the poncer Subdues the sea And Ghana And Tekrour And that Jolof Mbeng Lebu as well
as This island. But there he is that Pilgrim Mansa Slain in Tadjura While returning Half-way between Gizeh and
Berberia He's that Saakura who had
discovered the East Atlantic He leaves a gap with Gaawu and
Hamadu Those short-lived Mansas Then comes Baakari the Navigator the second
named Mansa That fari charrned by water who
subdued the ocean. He equips, weighs anchor, sets
sail Leaving behind him the sumptuous
Kankan Musa And the most ostentations reign in
that Middle Age That African one. Precisely to be the first To touch With his two thousand ships In the firs decade of the third
century At the other continental shore of
the same Ocean. Ibn ladal Allah al Omari tells So : the scribe witness of the oriental Science of Water He tells that in his chronicle of
kings That Masalick el Absar Fi Masalick El Amsar Written in the decade of that
Event Deducted frorn the account of
times That periplus cornes three
thousand years After the maritime expedition of
the Candace queen Hashopsut Exploring Punt, the Father's Land. Two thousand years after Nechao Exploring the continent lines. From here you can see With the compass And the New Science of waters coming from the
East Those invisible bonds between The pyramid of Sankara The tomb of the Askia The OlmecTotomagen temple Then silence and Peace Like at the outset. Sunjata was bliss Kapok-tree burst out of a tiny
grain A grain whose growing was
difficult. It sinks its roots deeply into the
ground Marijaata the son of Sogolon Simbon Sogolon Jaata Peace and Peace only In the twelve names of the twelve
kings Of the bright land Wasa Wassa Nyama Professeur P. DiagneExtrait
du narratif poetique “Goree
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