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29 Sep

Va va na a Bi nga – Let us give to our Lord – Donnons à notre Seigneur

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Dimèsh m’vi skway a Zhiklè a ganzavar Mafahay, a n’gècè ndalinga. Chant d’offrande accompagné de la harpe Mafa et au rythme de la danse ndalinga. Offering song accompanied by the Mafa harp and to the rhythm of the ndalinga dance.

12 Sep

SOSI A BI ZHIKLE- MERCI DIEU – THANK YOU GOD

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13 Jan

HELE Solange: Call for unity, love, and the preservation of cultural values – Appel à l’unité, à l’amour et à la conservation des valeurs culturelles

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Chant composé et exécuté par HELE Solange à l’attention du peuple Mafa. 
Song composed and performed by HELE Solange for the attention of the Mafa people.

19 Déc

Quelques expressions en mafa + chiffres en mafa – enseignement dispensé par Michel Goulimé

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L’IUDI dispense des cours de langue Mafa en pour les débutants comme pour ceux qui ont un niveau avancé. D’autres langues comme le fulfuldé, le kapsiki et l’arabe sont en préparation. Pour vous inscrire veuillez contacter le service des admissions à admissions[at]iudi.org (veuillez remplacer [at] par @).

Website: http://www.iudi.org

IUDI teaches Mafa language classes for beginners and advanced. Other languages like Fulfulde, Kapsiki, and Arabic are upcoming. Please contact admissions[at]iudi.org (please replace [at] with @)

Website: http://www.iudi.org

23 Avr

EXTENSION VERBALE « DAMA » EN MAFA

Posted by bongoyok in African studies, Afrique, Cameroon, Cameroun, Langues africaines, Mafa, Mofa. Tagged: , .

 

31 Mar

DIMESH N’TSI RAY A GED HERKEDA GEDAM TELEBA – PRIERE CHANTEE EN FAVEUR DE l’HUMANITE (EN LANGUE MOFA)

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Ceci est une prière composée et chantée par Priscille et Moussa Bongoyok en langue mofa (ou Mafa), langue parlée par les Mafa, pour implorer la grâce divine sur l’humanité en ce temps de pandémie du coronavirus. Ce chant a été exécuté au rythme de Ganzavar (harpe traditionnelle Mafa) dans le comté de Los Angeles en Californie (aux Etats-Unis) le 30 Mars 2020 à 18h57, heure locale.

This is a prayer composed and sung by Priscilla and Moussa Bongoyok in the Mofa (or Mafa) language, language of the Mafa people group, to implore divine grace on humanity in this time of the Coronavirus pandemic. This song was performed to the rhythm of Ganzavar (a Mafa traditional harp) in the Los Angeles county in California (in the United States) on March 30, 2020 at 6:57 pm local time.

20 Mar

Le Houdok chez les Mafa

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28 Fév

WHO WILL LIVE FOR THOSE WHO NO LONGER HAVE HEADS? A shout in the desert of International Community

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You didn’t hear… or did you hide willingly under the bed of abstraction?

Maybe you did hear about Boko Haram and other terrorist movements in action…

But, you see, your geography professor told you as did your musician,

With all the calm and seriousness of an academician,

That Kousseri, Maroua, Mora, Tourou, Moskota, Koza, Ouzal, Mozogo,

And other localities or infrahuman countries must go,

Because their humanity index is so low, and,

They are located on an unknown planet, the land of tomorrow.

Why worry about the future

While one calmly drinks today’s culture?

 

Maybe you didn’t see what is happening on social media as your soul became a taro…

Because, above all, you must set your economic priorities right to beat the antihero

And accumulate as much power and things as you can carry in your empty barrow.

Your business professor told you so, with his academic sombrero.

Your financial advisor is such a genius so different from the harrow

That you gather things, things and more things, and the great dinero.

You eat power, power and more power over bones without a marrow.

Aren’t they mere keys to your success today and tomorrow?

Your eyes can’t see while you dream to be the next pharaoh

And, after all, your neighbor is just a dried arrow!

 

Who will cry for those who no longer have heads?

Who will become a shelter for those who no longer have beds?

Who will eat for those who can no longer smell the odor of fresh breads?

Who will bring joyous colors to lives painted in multiple reds?

Who will tell Europe, America, Asia and others, that Boko Haram spreads

Faster and deeper than the swiftest fighters and meds?

Who will act? Who will dig? Who will lovingly address the roots

Instead of relying solely on boots?

 

Oh! I wish you and I were the recovered triumphant shouts of the voiceless!

Oh! I wish you and I were the beautiful tears of the tearless!

Oh! I wish you and I were the real wealth of the resourceless!

Oh! I wish you and I were the reconstructed ramparts of the powerless!

Oh! I wish you and I were the regained smiles of the hopeless!

Oh! I wish you and I were the lost but found face of the faceless!

Oh! I wish you and I were the living image of the divine rock for the baseless!

Oh! I wish you and I were the real value of lives so priceless!

Regardless of our religious backgrounds, we are all humans;

Would you and I actively navigate against the currents and stop treating others as subhumans?

 

Moussa Bongoyok, PhD

Professor of Intercultural Studies and Holistic Development

President of Institut Universitaire de Développement International (IUDI)

25 Fév

Quelques expressions et quelques animaux en mofa, la langue des Mafa

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25 Sep

Les cris de douleur d’un peuple en détresse suite aux exactions meurtrières de Boko Haram

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Lamentations d’un jeune Mafa de Moskota condamné à l’exil dans des conditions infrahumaines suite aux exactions meurtrières de la secte islamiste Boko Haram contre les populations du Mayo Tsanaga dans l’Extrême-Nord du Cameroun.
Lamentations of a young Mafa from Moskota condemned to live in exile, and in infrahuman conditions, following the murderous killings of the Islamist sect Boko Haram against the populations of Mayo Tsanaga in the Far North of Cameroon.

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