These are songs I learnt at community choirs in Brighton and Bangor.
Siyahamb' ekukhanyen' kwenkos' x4
Siyahamba, hamba, x2
Siyahamb' ekukhanyen' kwenkos'
We are marching in the light of God.
Hear a recording of this song:
Hamba nathi Mkhululi wethu x4
Mkhululi, Mkhululi, Mkhululi wethu x4
Stay with us our saviour/redeemer/liberator.
Hear a recording of this song:
This is a protest song from the days of Apartheid in South Africa.
Senzeni na?
What have we done?
Sono sethu, ubumyama?
Our sin is that we are black?
Sono sethu yinyaniso?
Our sin is the truth
Sibulawayo
They are killing us
Mayibuye i Africa
Let Africa return
Listen to a recording of this song by Bangor Community Choir
Listen to a recording of this song combined with the traditional Welsh hymn, Trig gyda mi, which has almost the same tune (Bangor Community Choir)
Hear another recording of this song:
This is a traditional Southern African folk song traditionally sung by all-male work gangs in a call and response style.
Shosholoza
Ku lezontaba
Stimela siphum' eSouth Africa
Wen' uyabaleka
Wen' uyabaleka
Ku lezontaba
Stimela siphum' eSouth Africa
Move fast
on those mountains
train from South Africa.
You are running away
on those mountains
train from South Africa.
Listen to a recording of this song by Bangor Community Choir
Hear another recording of this song:
Information about Zulu | Phrases | Numbers | Family Words | Tongue twisters | Tower of Babel | Songs | Zulu courses on: Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk [affilate links]
Other versions of these songs
http://ingeb.org/spiritua/siyahamb.html
http://www.cpdl.org/wiki/index.php/Siyahamba_(Anonymous)
http://www.mamalisa.com/blog/senzenina-a-zulu-protest-song-and-funeral-song/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shosholoza
Zulu songs
http://www.kwasizabantu.com/audio/music/music_clips.htm
Songs in the languages of South Africa (Afrikaans - Zulu)
http://www.ksb.org.za/audio/words/ksbchoir_index.htm
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