To make sure your friend is a true friend,
you have to go with him,
to travel with him night and day,
travel with him near and...

1. When the earth came into being
when the sky arose
when my songs first sounded
the holy mountain stood before me revived.
In...

1. I'm sitting by the door
making moccasins
and I don’t mean anything,
the sun was half-sunken
at the end of the plain. I'm...

When we finally die,
we know so little about what happens later.
But people who dream
They often see the dead as they appear
as...

There is a tribe of invisible men
who move around us like shadows - have you felt them?
They have bodies like ours and live just like...

You, stranger, you who see us only happy and carefree
If only you knew the horrors we often had to endure
you would understand our love...

At night, the sky is like a big city
inhabited by many animals and humans
but never has anyone there
killed a chicken or a goat...

Greetings to the chief of an Akan state on the occasion of the new year The year has come round.
I have come to...

* From conception came growth.
From the growth, thriving.
From thriving, exuberant thought.
From the thoughts, memory.
From the...

Because we are stars. Because we sing. Because we sing with light. Because we are birds that give birth to flames. Because we spread our wings...

Like a bone
looked the first-born child
the white ants ate it
oh my love, don't cry
don't grieve
the two of us are here...

I want to take you on a poetic journey around the world through the ancient tribes and the poetry that lived in them. This journey will consist of...

A man born of a flower in space
a man riding a stallion born by a barren mare
holding the reins of the turtle's hair
using a...

We sat chatting about Vavau Tua Lik;
Then the women spoke to us:
"Let's go look for Lik, to watch the sunset;
Let's listen to the...

I have a shade of thick fir-trees
at the foot of the high mountains.
The summer of distant plains,
come back to us one day! I have a...

Shango is a death that kills money with a big stick
A lying man dies in his home
Shango hits a fool
The liar runs away as soon as...

Give me a chair
and let me sit among you
as I celebrate poverty
and scarcity. The face of the poor
remains wrinkled...