South Africa - Yvonne Chaka Chaka - Bombani

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[Kleva4mi]

A living legend from Soweto, who has shared the stage with Steve Wonder, Aretha Franklin, Bono from U2 to name a few. Other musicians have died dreaming of getting such a platform. She has united Africa through her music and still entertaining the world.

[MrAmbokile]

In my native Tanzanian Bombani means...@ the Tap....i love her she is cuter than Beyonce!

[Raissa4965]

what means bombani?

[reigns09]

She's unique.lol

[mmatsatsi]

@MrAmbokile : In this song, the word "Bombani" means "dress to kill" or "dress smart", U nga tshabi ntshumu nwana'nga means "dont be afraid of anything my child".

[ishadosi]

I've always love this song since the first time i heard it

but i dunno what it means just the freedom fighters' names

could someone pls help translate?

[we315tisini]

maybe, but for words such as bombani, words have long been used by even other Tanzanian tribes its hard to tell who owned the word "first" but it doesn't matter now,

swahili is swahili and there's tons of dialects to it and new words keep on getting added to it every day, at some point it shall belong to no one and everyone..  i think

[AthaBeat]

@we315tisini So since the Boer war was at the end of 19th century during the German Colonial era where Swahili was being spread to mainland territories, does that confirm to you that some Swahili words borrowed from South African languages? . Because at that time, Swahili was only spoken along the coast and the trade routes that cut through Dodoma, Singida, Tabora & Kigoma.

[we315tisini]

@AthaBeat ooh! :'( You've now made me homesick!.. Yes, there waslater migration of bantus from South to east,. There's abt 3 tribes that settle from SA a long ago and yes, during the boer wars, there were refugee camps in Tanzania to host South African refugees.. I went to a boarding school that was a refugee camp turned into schools after the war was over.. bt this reminds me of how sad coz Nyerere helped so much of Africa but he is never recognized same as Kwame n Madiba.. his fellows :(

[AthaBeat]

@we315tisini using those similar words just tells me that there's a close link of Niger-Congo bantu between groups that went southward to the modern day areas of South Africa, Namibia & Botswana and groups that went eastward to the areas of Burundi, Uganda and Tanzania that is all. Do you remember the migration of people of Southern Africa up north during the Boer Wars in South Africa? People that later settled in southern Tanzania and the Mbeya/Rukwa region?

[we315tisini]

@AthaBeat FINE! But that just goes to show you that We are all connected in one way or another.. we are all bantu people, ex. I am a Haya-Ankole tribe and we use words like inkosikazi, abantu and bombani TRADITIONALLY.. are you going to claim that we borrowed them from ZULU? maybe Zulu's borrowed them from Central/East Africans since bantu migration began from central Africa, southwards.. point is no one owns the word! We jst have to learn to leave 2gether and praise both languages!.. PEACE! :)

[AthaBeat]

@we315tisini Swahili borrowed words from not just Tanzanian tribes, if you learned history, Swahili was spoken in a long stretch from Mogadishu in Somalia to Sofala in Mozambique on the coast, to the interior it went as deep as Kinshasa in Congo and other parts of Zaire, Kenya and Uganda and thus right now, Swahili has over 15 dialects ranging from regions it borrowed words. So that should tell you how deep Swahili has borrowed from other tribes and Zulu is one of them.