Best Zamina mina (Zangalewa) Translation, Meaning, lyrics, Video World Cup Soccer Football 2010 Song
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Meaning of the dialect:
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Zaminamina means come.
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Waka waka means Do it – as in perform a task. Waka is pidgin language meaning walk while working.
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Zaminamina zangalewa means who asked you to come?.
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Wana means it is mine.
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Zambo means wait.
Anawam means I did/ Yes I
so…
zaminamina zangalewa
anawam aa
Who called you/ asked you to come?
Yes, I did.
Zamina mina (Zangalewa)
Zangalewa of Cameroon
“Zamina” or “Zangaléwa†is a 1986 hit song, originally sung by a makossa group from Cameroon called Golden Sounds who were beloved throughout the continent for their silly dances and costumes. The song was such a hit for Golden Sounds that they eventually changed their name to Zangaléwa, too.The song pays tribute to African skirmishers (a.k.a tirailleurs) during WW2. Most of the band members were in the Cameroonian Army themselves and used make up, fake belly and fake butt for comic relief.
The song is still used today by soldiers, policemen, boy scouts, sportsmen and their supporters, usually during training or for rallying.
The men in the group often dressed in military uniforms, wearing pith helmets and stuffing their clothes with pillows to appear like they had a swollen butts from riding the train and fat stomachs from eating too much. The song, music historians say, is a criticism of black military officers who were in league with whites to oppress their own people. Or at least, some of it was. Some of it, as far was we can surmise, is gibberish.
From Spanish Wikipedia:
This song is a priori language interpreted Fang, corresponding to areas of Gabon, southern Cameroonin Equatorial Guinea and a little east of the Central Africa. Being so popular, this means that many times they sing the song without knowing the meaning.
Za engalomwa language means Fang “Who sent you?”: this is the question of a Cameroonian military source to another foreigner, according to Guy Dooh, Zangalewa group. The term Zangalewa can also come from an expression in Ewondo: Loé wa za anga?, it would be “Who called you?” Cameroon is a multiethnic, multilingual, and not all the soldiers could speak Ewondo, so it is very likely that over time the term wa za anga Loé became the Zangalewa that we know today.
When the young recruits of the Republican Guard Cameroon complained about the rigors of military life, their employers or fellow old people used to raise this question: Loé wa za anga?, which actually meant something like: “nobody has forced to join the army, so stop whining! “
The lyrics, which are in a Cameroonian dialect called Fang, go like this:
Zaminamina oh oh
Waka waka eh eh
Zaminamina zangalewa
Anawam ah ah
Shakira’s new song for the 2010 World Cup:
This song was chosen because it’s both a tribute to African music, with the World Cup being held in South Africa, and a nod to the folks back home who’ve partied to this song since way back in 1987 when the song rose to prominence thanks to West African DJ’s in Cartagena.
Before Shakira many other artists around the world sampled this song. Some of them are :
Las Chicas Del Can
The Surinamese group Beatmachine. Their version is called “Samina Mina†just like Shaki’s.
Adane Best
The movie The Lion King also feature samples reference of this song.
Waka Waka Lyrics
You’re a good soldier
Choosing your battles
Pick yourself up
And dust yourself off
And back in the saddle
You’re on the frontline
Everyone’s watching
You know it’s serious
We’re getting closer
This isnt over
The pressure is on
You feel it
But you’ve got it all
Believe it
When you fall get up
Oh oh…
And if you fall get up
Oh oh…
Tsamina mina
Zangalewa
Cuz this is Africa
Tsamina mina eh eh
Waka Waka eh eh
Tsamina mina zangalewa
Anawa aa
This time for Africa
Listen to your god
From Spanish Wikipedia:
Detailed translation
- Za / mine / mine / hé hé. in other pronunciation (Zar ou Zak mine mine)
- Come / you / you / he he. (Literal translation)
- Come, come (translation adapted)
- Wa / ka.
- You-ti-action. (Literal translation)
- you do. (Translation adapted)
- za / an / ga / le / wa /
- who / have / do action / called / you / (literal translation)
- Who called you? (Translation adapted)
- Ana / wam / ha / ha
- com / yo-me / himself / herself (literally)
- me, yeah (translation adapted)
- Yang / hé hé
- Waiting / hé hé
Full display translated
- Come, come hé hé
- you do, you do hé hé
- Come, come
- Who called you?
- yes, I am
- hé hé expected
- hé hé expected
- Come, come
- Who called you?
- yes, I am
Another part of the song says:
- When I push on the right, you push on the left, when I push on the left, you push on the right …
Shakira Waka Waka lyrics found on http://www.directlyrics.com.com/shakira-waka-waka-lyrics.html
This is our motto
Your time to shine
Dont wait in line
Y vamos por Todo
People are raising
Their Expectations
Go on and feed them
This is your moment
No hesitations
Today’s your day
I feel it
You paved the way
Believe it
If you get down
Get up Oh oh…
When you get down
Get up eh eh…
Tsamina mina zangalewa
Anawa aa
This time for Africa
Tsamina mina eh eh
Waka Waka eh eh
Tsamina mina zangalewa
Anawa aa
Tsamina mina eh eh
Waka Waka eh eh
Tsamina mina zangalewa
This time for Africa
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50 Inspirational QuotesA collection of inspirational quotes on mothers coming straight from the hearts of some of the most prolific writers and celebrated personalities of our times.
1. If you bungle raising your children, I don’t think whatever else you do well matters very much. Inspirational Quotes on Mothers Day by: Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
2. Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he’ll end up hating you.
3. A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
4. At work, you think of the children you have left at home.
5. Mothers hold their children’s hands for a short while, but their hearts forever.
6. As is the mother, so is her daughter.
7. Men are what their mothers made them.
8. Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.
9. We never know the love of the parent until we become parents ourselves.
10. The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
11. The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.
12. Who is getting more pleasure from this rocking, the baby or me?
13. By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.
14. Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother.
15. Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to ‘jump at de sun.’ We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.
16. That best academy, a mother’s knee.
17. Making a decision to have a child–it’s momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.
18. Anyone who doesn’t miss the past never had a mother.
19. A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie.
20. Few misfortunes can befall a boy which brings worse consequences than to have a really affectionate mother.
21. The lullaby is the spell whereby the mother attempts to transform herself back from an ogre to a saint.
22. No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.
23. Biological possibility and desire are not the same as biological need. Women have childbearing equipment. For them to choose not to use the equipment is no more blocking what is instinctive than it is for a man who, muscles or no, chooses not to be a weightlifter.
24. Women do not have to sacrifice personhood if they are mothers. They do not have to sacrifice motherhood in order to be persons. Liberation was meant to expand women’s opportunities, not to limit them. The self-esteem that has been found in new pursuits can also be found in mothering.
25. Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother’s love is not.
26. All that remains to the mother in modern consumer society is the role of scapegoat; psychoanalysis uses huge amounts of money and time to persuade analysis and to foist their problems on to the absent mother, who has no opportunity to utter a word in her own defense. Hostility to the mother in our societies is an index of mental health.
27. Woman in the home has not yet lost her dignity, in spite of Mother’s Day, with its offensive implication that our love needs an annual nudging, like our enthusiasm for the battle of Bunker Hill.
28. All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.
29. The moment a child is born, the mother is also born.
30. The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
31. A suburban mother’s role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.
32. All mothers are working mothers.
33. The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men – from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.
34. Motherhood is priced; Of God, at price no man may dare/To lessen or misunderstand.
35. It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn’t.
36. God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers.
37. I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
38. Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs… since the payment is pure love.
39. Nobody knows of the work it makes
40. If the whole world were put into one scale, and my mother in the other, the whole world would kick the beam.
41. Mother – that was the bank where we deposited all our hurts and worries.
42. There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it.
43. When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.
44. No gift to your mother can ever equal her gift to you – life
45. An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest.
46. Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
47. If nature had arranged that husbands and wives should have children alternatively, there would never be more than three in a family.
48. Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children.
49. Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age.
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To Value A Job Well Done
“If you’re going to kill each other, do it outside. I just finished cleaning.”
Time Travel
“If you don’t straighten up, I’m going to knock you into the middle of next week!”
Logic
“Because I said so, that’s why.”
Foresight
“Make sure you wear clean underwear, in case you’re in an accident.”
Irony
“Keep crying and I’ll give you something to cry about.”
Osmosis
“Shut your mouth and eat your supper.”
Stamina
“You’ll sit there until all that spinach is gone.”
Weather
“This room of yours looks as if a tornado went through it.”
Hypocrisy
“If I told you once, I’ve told you a million times. Don’t exaggerate!”
Circle Of Life
“I brought you into this world, and I can take you out.”
Behavior Modification
“Stop acting like your father!”
Envy
“There are millions of less fortunate children in this world who don’t have wonderful parents like you do.”
Anticipation
“Just wait until we get home.”
Receiving
“You are going to get it when you get home!”
Medical Science
“If you don’t stop crossing your eyes, they are going to freeze that way.”
How To Become An Adult
“If you don’t eat your vegetables, you’ll never grow up.”
Genetics
“You’re just like your father.”
Wisdom
“When you get to be my age, you’ll understand.”
Justice
“One day you’ll have kids, and I hope they turn out just like you”
“I’d like to be the ideal mother, but I’m too busy raising my kids.”– Unknown
The mother of three notoriously unruly youngsters was asked whether or not she’d have children if she had it to do over again. “Yes,” she replied. “But not the same ones.”– David Finkelstein
A little boy forgot his lines in a Sunday school presentation. His mother was in the front row to prompt him. She gestured and formed the words silently with her lips, but it did not help. Her son’s memory was blank. Finally, she leaned forward and whispered the cue, “I am the light of the world.” The child beamed and with great feeling and a loud clear voice said, “My mother is the light of the world.” – Bits and Pieces, 1989
A teacher gave her class of second graders a lesson on the magnet and what it does. The next day in a written test, she included this question: “My full name has six letters. The first one is M. I pick up things. What am I?” When the test papers were turned in, the teacher was astonished to find that almost 50 percent of the students answered the question with the word Mother– Unknown
