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We carried the song across countries

over oceans

over snow-topped mountains

Afrika my music.

You carried us across countries

over oceans

over desert and savannah

Song of Afrika.

How could we not return

when this is where

the afterbirth was buried for rebirth? –

Afrika my music.

For the family, sacrifice the individual,

For the community, the family;

For the country, the community;

For the soul, all the world.

– Sanskrit poem rendered by Rabindranath Tagore