{"id":6320,"date":"2012-01-17T15:11:53","date_gmt":"2012-01-17T15:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/divineearth.org\/main\/?p=6320"},"modified":"2012-01-17T15:11:53","modified_gmt":"2012-01-17T15:11:53","slug":"geoffrey-oryema-a-song-of-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/divineearth.org\/main\/geoffrey-oryema-a-song-of-peace\/","title":{"rendered":"Geoffrey Oryema &#8211; a song of peace &#8211;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"900\" height=\"675\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IU6pG9OBaNU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a really beautiful song written by Ugandan musician and guitarist Geoffrey Oryema, &#8211; who fled the country of Uganda during\u00a0 former Ugandan president Idi Amin&#8217;s &#8220;Reign of Terror&#8221; &#8211; a time when the human rights of the Ugandan people and other neighboring ethnic groups were the threatened&#8230;.Idi&#8217;s rule was littered with crimes of injustice, human rights abuse, nepotism, extrajudicial killings, political repression, and ethnic persecution&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Oryema, seeing the injustices happening &#8211; left Uganda for refuge&#8230;..this song was written in reflection of the world&#8217;s injustices&#8230;.a cry for peace &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Lyrics: (Zulu translation by Wally Badarou)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ngibathe Ngicelu Xolo (I&#8217;ve been asking for Peace)<br \/>\nNgatholi nzondo (But all I got was war)<br \/>\nNgibathe Ngecelu thando ma, ah oh (I&#8217;ve been looking for love)<br \/>\nYiningathi yini ngomhlaba (But I didn&#8217;t find togetherness)<br \/>\nYini Singa Funu Zwano ? ah oh (What is wrong with the world?)<br \/>\nNgibathe Ngicelu Xolo (What is wrong with the people?)<br \/>\nNgatholi nzondo, ah oh (Why don&#8217;t we want peace?)<\/p>\n<p>Washu mathambo espoki wathi (Says the Skeleton of Africa)<br \/>\nAfrica, Umhlaba ubolile (Africa, the world is rotting)<br \/>\nAbantu bane nkohla kalo (People are turning to evil)<br \/>\nUmhlaba ubolile (The world is rotting)<br \/>\nUmhlaba unengozi (The world is wounded)<br \/>\nSudan, Rwanda, Angola, Malawi, Liberia, Zaire<br \/>\nStop the killing<br \/>\nPhansingo dlame (Stop the killing)<br \/>\nSouth Africa: war is never good<br \/>\nPhansingo dlame (Stop the killing)<\/p>\n<p>So why ?<br \/>\nSo why ?<br \/>\nSo why ?<br \/>\nAfrica, Africa will sing &#8211; so why ?<br \/>\nThe sun in your heart is your smile &#8211; so why ?<br \/>\nWozani bizanu tula &#8211; So why ? (Come on, let&#8217;s call for peace &#8211; zulu)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Here&#8217;s a really beautiful song written by Ugandan musician and guitarist Geoffrey Oryema, &#8211; who fled the country of Uganda during\u00a0 former Ugandan president Idi Amin&#8217;s &#8220;Reign of Terror&#8221; &#8211; a time when the human rights of the Ugandan people and other neighboring ethnic groups were the threatened&#8230;.Idi&#8217;s rule \u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"continue-reading-button\"> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"http:\/\/divineearth.org\/main\/geoffrey-oryema-a-song-of-peace\/\">Continue reading<i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,5639,13,5,8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-human-rights","category-music-posts","category-people","category-politics","category-spirituality","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/divineearth.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/divineearth.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/divineearth.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/divineearth.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/divineearth.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6320"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/divineearth.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6321,"href":"http:\/\/divineearth.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6320\/revisions\/6321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/divineearth.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/divineearth.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/divineearth.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}