Understand and explore the words of West African music!
👀 Search for a song, artist or word!
(Try in either English or Bambara/Dioula/Malinké!)
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🤔 What is the Manding Language Lyrics Library?
It’s an in-progress collection of the transcribed lyrics of songs in Manding (e.g., Bambara, Dioula, Malinké, etc) and their translation into English.
It’s a collaboration between An ka taa and Christy Traoré’s YouTube channel.
We’ve interpreted each song’s lines of lyrics into both standard Bambara/Dioula/Malinké spelling and paired them with our own English translation, so that students of the language can explore and learn from their favorite West African songs!
It was/is a lot of work! Please don’t copy and paste our interpretations elsewhere. If you’d like to use them for some other purpose, please contact one of us via Coleman’s contact form or Christy’s About page.