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Translation. 



Namayanja : kubakungoma erawe 

 Namayanja : abazalakabaka bazala 

 Namayanja : kubakungoma erawe 

 Namayanja : azala Kabaka alilusaka 

 Namayanja ! 



Namayanja : beat the drum, let it speak 



out. 

 Namayanja : those who bare the king 



bare well. 

 Namayanja : beat the drum, let it speak 



out. 

 Namayanja : she who bore the king is at 



Lusaka (the queen-mother's place is 



called Lusaka). 

 Namayanja ! 



Anamwanganga anabani ? ah ! ah ! ah ! 

 Entambazi teva kukyoto 

 Anamwanganga anabani. 



Who will venture to go there 1 ah ! ah ! 

 ah! 



The angry man will not leave the fire- 

 place. 



Who will venture to so there ? 



Leka ntuke kugadi, ntuke wekoma 

 Leka ntuke wekoma ntuke wesula 

 Wova mukolokoni kyewerabira todira 

 Leka ntuke mugadi. 



Let me get to the railway, let me reach 



where it stops : 

 Let me reach where it stops ; let me reach 



where it rests. 

 When you are out of the chain gang you 



do not go back for what you may have 



forgotten. 

 Let me get to the railway. 



Nsejere ziwerera sebawala balika eyo 

 Nkanda kubaita tebaitaba ensejere 

 Ziwerera. 



The white ants are flying ; the girls who 



are there — 

 I shouted for them, they did not reply. 

 The ants are flying. 



Marriage Song. 



Weroboli 



Bwotyaemundu olizimbawawompa mailo* 



Nkuloza ayisa omwenge ajagana 



Abatalina nte mulinywaki 



Mulimu atasiba nte 



Balinywaki 1 



Choose what you like. 



If you are afraid of fighting (guns), where 



will you build ? If you give me an estate, 



I will think of you as one who distributes 



beer and swaggers. 

 You who have not cows, what will you 



drink 2 

 There are some who have no cows ; 

 What will they drink 1 



* The author of this book is responsible for adding one word to the Luanda 

 vocabulary : " niairo " or " mailo " (the English " mile "). This now means an " estate.'' 

 When the land settlement was taking place, the Special Commissioner often dealt 

 with claims in square miles, half a square mile, and so forth. The native mind, 

 therefore, associated the mile measurement with the idea of a private estate. 



