NoBorders Campos, May 8, 2013
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Edited by Azizi Powell
This pancocojams post showcases a YouTube video of Mali, West African guitarists/ singers Boubacar Traoré & Ali Farka Touré.
Information about Boubacar Traoré and Ali Farka Touré are included in this post along with a few comments from this video's discussion thread.
Information the the meaning of the Mandé language name "Boubacar" and the meaning of the Arabic name "Ali".
The content of this post is presented for cultural, educational, entertainment, onamastic, and aesthetic purposes.
All copyrights remain with their owners.
Thanks to Boubacar Traoré and Ali Farka Touré for their musical legacy. Thanks to all those who are quoted in this post and thanks to the publisher of this video on YouTube.
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SELECTED COMMENTS FROM THE DISCUSSION THREAD FOR THIS VIDEO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4-uq8cTF7o&ab_channel=NoBordersCamposNoBordersCampos
(Numbers are dded for referencing purposes only)
1. James Agyen, 2019
"Far away from that. This is what I found from the Reddit
about the song Duna Ma Yelema:
Duna ma yelema, bi ma de yelema la
the world has not changed, it is the people of today have
changed
Ni kokè mousso mi yé , o bi maflé nalomayé
if you do something for a woman, she thinks you're an idiot
Ni kokè tié ba mi yé , o bi maflé fiyentoyé
if you do something for a man, he thinks you're blind
oh Na , Duna ma yelema, bi ma de yelema la ....
oh mother , ...
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2. Yacouba Diankha, 2021
"Good translation 👍🏽"
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3. J Lynch, 2019
"I can hear the foundations for blues but also reggae, especially when they play the off-beat guitar strokes. Just wow"
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4. Abdoul Raouf Cisse, 2019
"They just saying in the song : the world didn't change but people changed. ( Dunia ma yelema, bi ma de yelemana)"
5. Nyambati Kwamboka, 2019
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6. Hawkeye, 2019
"Dunia is also in Arabic."
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7. Khaya Mwelase, 2019
"Aaahhh man! Thank you for translation"
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8. Athanasios Tsagkadouras, 2019
"Damn we use the word "dunia" in my home country GREECE to say " the world " haha that's funny. It seems like it's arabic, and we say it as we got affected by the Ottoman empire in the past through some language word exchange."
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9. mustafa juventino, 2019
"@Athanasios Tsagkadouras is it some kind of a dialect?"
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10. Athanasios Tsagkadouras, 2019
"@mustafa juventino actually its mostly used in villages and not at big major cities in Greece. Thanks for asking!"
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11. saveasav1, 2019
"@Athanasios Tsagkadouras In Hindi too. And many other languages, which I just found out: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunya"
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12. Zoë Wilms, 2019
"In Malagasy too Donia [doonia] = Dunia"
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13. Abdoul Raouf Cisse, 2019
"Mali is 95 percent Muslim, so we have many words from the Qur'an that influenced our dialect. In fact they are two people from different regions, boubacar is from the south which has some vegetation and Ali farka is from the north in the region of Timbuktu which is the desert. Islam came through the north of the country to the south. Plus lot of people in Mali say the northern people originally come from Yemen, a country that speaks Arabic 🤷🏽♂"
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14. DaltonCulture, 2019
"Dunia also means the world in Bahasa, the Indonesian language"
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15. Alem Ghebreab, 2019
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16. Arc, 2021
" @Nyambati Kwamboka check out how yelema changes to yelemana. The Niger Congo language root structure alive and kicking."
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17. Twinkle Arora, 2021
"What language is this that they sing in?"
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18. Arc, 2021
"@Twinkle Arora Bambara"
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19. Joshua Ntuen, 2021
"Duniya is also the Hausa world"
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Written another way:“Duniya” is the Hausa word for “world”.
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20. Moriarty, 2019
"Two of the most astounding pillars in the pantheon of guitar
heaven"
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21. London Logan, 2021
"Amazing. African blues. The origin that our ancestors
brought over."
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INFORMATION ABOUT BOUBACAR TRAORE
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boubacar_Traor%C3%A9
"Boubacar Traoré (born 1942 in Kayes, Mali) is a Malian singer,
songwriter, and guitarist.[1][2]
[...]
Boubacar figures in the book Mali Blues (Lonely Planet,
Australia), by Belgian writer Lieve Joris. The book inspired Swiss film
director Jacques Sarasin for the 2001 film Je chanterai pour toi ("I'll
Sing For You") about Boubacar, released on DVD in 2005.
Along with several blues artists, he appeared in the film
Blues Road Movie (Au Coeur du Blues) by Louis Mouchet (2001).
Boubacar then released Kongo Magni (Marabi, 2005), produced by Christian Mousset, director of the Festival Musiques Métisses d'Angoulême (Angoulême Cross-Cultural Music Festival), who would also produce his Mali Denhou (Lusafrica, 2010). Kar Kar made up for lost time with acclaimed live performances around Europe and then the United States and Canada. Mbalimaou (My Brothers) was released in February 2015, followed by Dounia Tabalo in November 2017."...
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INFORMATION ABOUT ALI FARKA TOURE
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_Farka_Tour%C3%A9
"Ali Ibrahim "Ali Farka" Touré (31 October 1939 – 6
March 2006)[1][2] was a Malian singer and multi-instrumentalist, and one of the
African continent's most internationally renowned musicians.[3] His music
blends traditional Malian music and its derivative, North American blues[4] and
is considered a pioneer of African desert blues.[5] Touré was ranked number 76
on Rolling Stone's list of "The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All
Time"[6] and number 37 on Spin magazine's "100 Greatest Guitarists of
All Time".[7]
Biography
Touré was born in 1939 in the village of Kanau, on the banks
of the Niger River in Gourma-Rharous Cercle in the northwestern Malian region
of Tombouctou. His family belonged to the Arma community and moved to the
nearby village of Niafunké when he was still an infant.[8] His father died
serving in the French Army in 1940.[9] He was the tenth son of his mother but
the only one to survive past infancy. "The name I was given was Ali
Ibrahim, but it's a custom in Africa to give a child a strange nickname if you
have had other children who have died",[8] Touré was quoted as saying in a
biography on his record label, World Circuit Records. His nickname,
"Farka", chosen by his parents, means "donkey", an animal
admired for its tenacity and stubbornness: "Let me make one thing clear.
I'm the donkey that nobody climbs on!"[8] Ethnically, he was part Songhai,
part Fula.[8]
As the first African bluesman to achieve widespread popularity on his home continent, Touré was often known as "the African John Lee Hooker".[10] Musically, the many superpositions of guitars and rhythms in his music were similar to John Lee Hooker's hypnotic blues style. He usually sang in one of several African languages, mostly Songhay, Fulfulde, Tamasheq or Bambara[8] as on his breakthrough album, Ali Farka Touré, which established his reputation in the world music community.”….
WHAT THE NAME "BOUBACAR" MEANS
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boubacar
"Boubacar is both a surname and a given name. It is the West African adaptation of the Arabic name Abu Bakar."
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"West African adaptation" here largely refers to Mande languages:
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mande_languages
"The Mande languages are spoken in several countries in West Africa by the Mandé peoples and include Maninka, Mandinka, Soninke, Bambara, Kpelle, Dioula, Bozo, Mende, Susu, and Vai. There are "60 to 75 languages spoken by 30 to 40 million people",[1] chiefly in Burkina Faso, Mali, Senegal, the Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Ivory Coast, and also in northwestern Nigeria and northern Benin."...
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Bakr_(name)
"Abu Bakr (Arabic: أبو بكر) was a sahabi, one of the companions of Muhammad and the first Caliph of Islam. He was also Muhammad's father-in-law through Aisha. His real name was Abdullah or Abul-Kaaba and Abu Bakr was his kunya.
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WHAT THE NAME "ALI" MEANS
From https://quranicnames.com/ali/
"Ali is a direct Quranic name for boys that means “high”, “exalted”,
“superb”, “sublime”. The word Ali is used in many places in the Quran and it
forms one of the names of Allah when it is prefixed with an al, as in al-Ali.
It is a common name among Muslims out of love for Ali bin Abi Talib, cousin of
Prophet Muhammad, peace and blessings of Allah upon him and his family and
companions."...
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