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Featured in "Until Everyone Is Free," a sheng' podcast about the life and work of Pio Gama Pinto: socialist, political detainee, and martyr. Host Stoneface Bombaa, producer April Zhu, and reporter Felix Omondi tell the story of a forgotten freedom fighter to answer one important question: How did the country of Kenya become free... without the people of Kenya getting free?

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Colonizers walikam, waligrab zetu land,
walibrag, then,
si then Barbed Wire.
Zikasundwa zetu land
Nasema Barbed Wire.
Zikasundwa zetu land
Nasema Barbed Wire.
Zikasundwa zetu land....

Hundred thousand walichujwa Rift Valley
Bila kujali
Bila anything ata kuuliza ka swali
Haja ilikua wachukue yao Mali bilakujali
Ndio wavune yao asali

They took their land, no man to stand
Sent them away, none to stay
This the baddest situation
The worse affectation
The bad day affected the nation

Walichujwa walifukuzwa
Land zao poa zikauzwa
Walibaki bila na kupuuzwa
Kutolewa kwao bila kuulizwa
Hizi lands zilipeanwa European
Eight million acres wakajipin
Ati kulea kuweka mimea
Mbona wakucare nafeel imenifika there

Colonizers walikam, wakigrab zetu land,
wakibrag, then,
si then Barbed Wire.
Zikasundwa zetu land
Nasema Barbed Wire.

After independence waliexpect changes
Ndio waforget mashida endless
But kucome Kenya ikaturn
Ikageuza hizo land zao zakuearn

Kuna kitu nililearn:
There was a shift of land on another hand That was bad, that was sad, that was hard
No one to guard

Me nitatalk me nitawalk
Kuna kitu inanihurt tu a lot:
Mbona wengine waligenya
Instead hao pia ni Wakenya?

Imefika time kua sincere
Maisha hakuna wakuskia
But najua God atatuskia
Let's stand onemusije kufear

I’m a human rights defender
Akuna siku nita surrender
This is only agenda
Hifuate days za calender

Colonizers walikam, wakagrab zetu land,
wakibrag, then,
si then Barbed Wire.
Zikasundwa kwenye land
Nasema Barbed Wire.
Zikasundwa kwenye land

Colonizers walikam, wakagrab zetu land,
wakibrag, then,
si then Barbed Wire.

credits

released February 16, 2021
Written and performed by: Madolla
Back-up vocals: Stoneface Bombaa
Produced by: Djae Aroni

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