Treasury of African Love

by Awde, Nicholas

• ISBN13: 9780781804837
• ISBN10: 0781804833
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-05-01
• Publisher: Hippocrene Books

Summary

Selection of songs and sayings from numerous African languages including Swahili, Yoruba, Berber, Zulu and Amharic.

Table of Contents

Poems of Love
Afar (Djibouti, Ethiopia)
Camel praise song	8	(4)
Amharic (Ethiopia)
If you don't think this is proper	12	(2)
Ancient Egyptian (Egypt)
The sickness of love
I am yours
The river song
The trap
Unique is a maiden
O my heart, do not flee!	14	(6)
Bemba (Zambia)
You who spurn me
My wife, when I'm there...	20	(2)
Berber (Morocco, Algeria, Mauritania)
Rising sun
Crazy for you
Restive horse
Hard is the first night	22	(6)
Coptic (Egypt)
Love spell to Horus	28	(2)
Dari (Chad)
Sugar cane at the field's edge
Aytam floats in the water...	30	(2)
Egyptian (Egypt)
You are my life	32	(4)
Hausa (Nigeria, Niger, West Africa)
Jummai's song
Come young man!
The day of our farewell	36	(6)
Krio (Sierra Leone)
Where are you roaming?	42	(1)
Lala (Zambia)
Guess I'm fooled again	42	(2)
Malagasy (Madagascar)
Tell me how you love me!
Fig trees I planted
Carry me home my heart
It is in our nature to part
Miss Chatterbox
Come swimming!	44	(8)
Mandinka (Senegal, Gambia)
Mandingo woman
Kumo	52	(4)
Maasai (Kenya, Tanzania)
Song of a woman
Mopoi's love song	56	(4)
Mbosi (Congo)
The Beauty
Us two!	60	(4)
Oromo (Southern Ethiopia)
O autumn of the rains	64	(1)
Sesotho (Lesotho)
A Xhosa has taken my love
The thieves	64	(4)
Shona (Zimbabwe)
Our love by the river	68	(2)
Somali (Somalia)
Lament for a dead lover
Will I ever find your like?
Love that is true	70	(4)
Swahili (Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Zaire)
Amina
Marry!
What once we had...
The fig is the fruit of love
Quarrellers can be reconciled
Sunshine
Matches and petrol
The rendezvous
Malaika	74	(18)
Tigrinya (Eritrea)
Asmeret	92	(2)
Yoruba (Nigeria)
Your daughter is beautiful, we love her!
Father I go to my husband's house
The fulfilment of this earth's law is love
The day...	94	(6)
Zulu (South Africa)
The body perishes
Love is blind
With what will I wed her?
You will never get her
My money!
Praise poem	100	(7)
Proverbs of Love
Dagari (Burkina Faso)
Dari (Chad)
Fulfulde (West Africa)
Hausa (Nigeria, Niger)
Haya (Tanzania)
Igbo (Nigeria)
Kaonde (Zambia)
Luganda (Uganda)
Luyia (Kenya)
Malagasy (Madagascar)
Maasai (Kenya, Tanzania)
Nembe (Nigeria)
Oromo (Horn of Africa)
Swahili (Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda)
Tsonga (Mozambique, South Africa)
Tuareg (Sahara)
Turkana (Kenya)
Twi (Ghana)
Wolof (Senegal, Gambia)
Yaka (Zaire)
Yoruba (Nigeria)
Zulu (South Africa)	107	(21)
Map of languages	128