Moist Cervix Soft High And Close

Kitantu kia Ntame Ntame / Adversity long ago

Song in Kikongo
Author / Receiver: unknown
Performer: kilombo Center Bacongo, Brazzaville.

Photo: UNICEF / Roger LeMoyne.

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Kitantu kia Ntame Ntame Kiet lembana mu Manisa
Adversity former can not be completed
Nsi ago Kongo yeti vutuka ku Manima
Congo is currently regress
Ba Kongo wa tuma sola mu mu beti lembana Wawan
ones you've chosen to lead the Congo can not agree
Nsi ago Kongo yeti vutuka ku Manima
Congo is trying to regress

Chorus / Mvutu: Eh eh
Yave (2x)
Oh, Lord!
yave Nzambi Yenge mu tula Kongo (2x)
Lord God put peace in Congo

Solo: Nanguka mu ku you sadis
Arise for our help!
Ye utukula Diambu mu aku dia nlemvo
And deliver us for thy mercy.

1) Kitantu kia Ntame Ntame Kiet lembana mu Manisa
Adversity former can not be completed
Nsi ago Kongo yeti vutuka ku Manima
The Congo is process of decline
Ba Kongo wa tuma sola mu mu beti lembana Wawan
one that you selected to lead the Congo can not agree
Nsi ago Kongo yeti vutuka ku Manima
The Congo is regressing

2) Zinzo zi killed tunguila Mpasi za mu mu bamanisi muanguisa
The houses we have built with hardly any have been destroyed
Nsi ago Kongo yeti vutuka ku Manima
Congo is trying to regress

3) Zimbongo killed Bakili mu zi za Mpasi bamanisi mu labula
The money that we won with difficulty was taken
Nsi ago Kongo yeti vutuka ku Manima
Congo is being reversed.
4) Two killed Bimvuama Bakili Mpasi za mu mu bamanisi labula
riches of our hard earned were all looted
Nsi ago Kongo yeti vutuka ku Manima
Congo is being reversed.

Comment:
The evocation of the suffering generated by a decade of war marks the song completely denouncing hatred and violence among Congolese, the rivalries that plague the political power, theft and looting that came in manners.
Here are the believers who speak: they complain of having lost all their possessions (houses, money, riches of all kinds). They pose as victims of painful events that have hit the country, and implore God to bring peace to Congo. That's what makes the unusual nature of this song, when compared with other songs performed by groups kilombo. Indeed, the theology conveyed in the songs kilombo prompt recurrent detachment vis-à-vis material goods. Thus, a song Beembe says

Bu Luri na Busine, busin bu ko na ndaandu
The wealth that you have not you is no gain
Bu mu read kotiri lufwa, busin drunk Siiri
When you enter death, wealth is still down here.

Now it seems that out of the Congolese wars (1993, 1997 and 1998), a new generation of "singers of God" will begin to express the suffering of populations surviving legitimate and robbed by unscrupulous militias . The complaint then goes to God, with a vibrant supplication (Arise for our help!).
We will also retain the invocation at the heart of this song: the believers turn to God they recognize as the only one capable of bringing peace to their country, Congo.