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Anthem and national symbols.

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Anthem and national symbols. Key figure for Senegal: name: "Pincez Tous vos Koras, Frappez les Balafons" (Pluck Your Koras, Strike the Balafons) lyrics/music: Leopold Sedar SENGHOR/Herbert PEPPER note: adopted 1960; lyrics written by Leopold Sedar SENGHOR, Senegal's first president; the anthem sometimes played incorporating the Koras (harp-like stringed instruments) and Balafons (types of xylopho…

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National anthem

Anthem History
  • name: "Pincez Tous vos Koras, Frappez les Balafons" (Pluck Your Koras,
  • Leopold Sedar SENGHOR/Herbert PEPPER note: adopted 1960; lyrics written by Leopold Sedar SENGHOR, Senegal's first president; the anthem sometimes played incorporating the Koras (harp-like stringed instruments) and Balafons (types of xylophones) mentioned in the title
Anthem Lyrics
  • soleil sur notre espoir. Refrain: Debout frères voici l'Afrique rassemblée Fibres de mon cœur vert épaule contre épaule Mes plus que frères. O Sénégalais, debout ! Unissons la mer et les sources, unissons La steppe et la forêt. Salut Afrique mère. Sénégal, toi le fils de l'écume du lion, Toi surgi de la nuit au galop des chevaux, Rends-nous, oh ! rends-nous l'honneur de nos Ancêtres Splendides comme l'ébène et forts comme le muscle ! Nous disons droits — l'épée n'a pas une bavure. Sénégal, nous faisons nô
  • tre ton grand dessein: Rassembler les poussins à l'abri des milans Pour en faire, de l'est à l'ouest, du nord au sud, Dressé, un même peuple, un peuple sans couture, Mais un peuple tourné vers tous les vents du monde. Sénégal, comme toi, tous nos héros, Nous serons durs, sans haine et les deux bras ouverts, L'épée, nous la mettrons dans la paix du fourreau, Car notre travail sera notre arme et la parole. Le Bantou est un frère, et l'Arabe et le Blanc. Mais que si l'ennemi incendie nos frontières Nous soyons tous dressé
  • s et les armes au poing: Un peuple dans sa foi défiant tous les malheurs ; Les jeunes et les vieux, les hommes et les femmes. La mort, oui ! Nous disons la mort mais pas la honte.
Anthem Lyrics English
  • here is Africa assembled. Chorus: Fibres of my green heart, Shoulder to shoulder, my more than brothers, O Senegalese, arise! Join sea and springs, join steppe and forest! Hail mother Africa, hail mother Africa. Senegal, you the son of the lion's froth, Sprung from the night to the gallop of horses, Give us, oh! give us the honour of our ancestors, Splendid as ebony and strong as muscle, We say it clearly - the sword has no flaw. Senegal,
  • we take on your great work: To shelter the chicks from the falcons, To make, from east to west, north to south, Arisen, one single people, a people without seams, But a people turned to all the winds of the earth. Senegal, like you, like all our heroes, We will be hard without hatred, with open arms. The sword in peace-time we will store in the scabbard, As work and words will be our weapon. The Bantu is a brother, and so is the Arab and the White. But if the enemy
  • burns our borders We will be risen with weapons in our hands: One people defying all sorrows with its faith, Young and old, men and women. Death, yes! We say death, but not shame.

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