Bonya

Why are we not proud of who we are? We are black Africans,
 descendants of Sunjata Keita, the emperor of the Mandé people.
 We have our own culture and civilisation, which we must be proud of.
 Instead, we want to look like Westerners, Chinese, Asians,
 and Arabs by bleaching our skin, selling off our land and resources,
 and adopting their fashions. As a result,
 we are lost and our traditions escape us.
 So who will come to defend our African dignity in our place?
 Let's not turn our back on our traditions
 Let's embrace them, be proud of them
 Let's not abandon our traditions
 We need to welcome them, like a miracle
 Let's not turn our back on them
 They want to destroy our traditional values
 Because we are Africans
 We have lost all our cultural references
 Because they see us as slaves
 Our ancestors have abandoned us
 They want to kill our traditions
 Because we are Africans
 Our human warmth is disappearing
 I bow before our ancestral traditions, mother
 I pray to the spirits of our ancestors
 I bow before our ancestral traditions
 Why are we not proud of who we are?
 We try to look like Europeans, by bleaching our skin
 We try to look like the Chinese and sell off our resources to them
 We think that being Muslim means to cover ourselves from top to toe
 We want to look like Indians by applying their bindi to our forehead
 Who will carry on Sunjata's heritage?
 I, Diawara Fanta proudly stand up and
 vow to carry on the ancestral heritage
 Who will build Africa for us?
 Who will live the African life in our stead?
 We have lost all our cultural references to western culture
 If we do not respect ourselves, no one will ever respect us
 Why are we not proud of who we are?