Treasury of African Love : Poems & Proverbs

Poems of Love Afar (Djibouti, Ethiopia) Camel praise song 8(4) Amharic (Ethiopia) If you don't think this is proper 12(2) Ancient Egyptian (Egypt) The sickness of love I am yours The river song The trap Unique is a maiden O my heart, do not flee! 14(6) Bemba (Zambia) You who spurn me My wife, when I'm there... 20(2) Berber (Morocco, Algeria, Mauritania) Rising sun Crazy for you Restive horse Hard is the first night 22(6) Coptic (Egypt) Love spell to Horus 28(2) Dari (Chad) Sugar cane at the field's edge Aytam floats in the water... 30(2) Egyptian (Egypt) You are my life 32(4) Hausa (Nigeria, Niger, West Africa) Jummai's song Come young man! The day of our farewell 36(6) Krio (Sierra Leone) Where are you roaming? 42(1) Lala (Zambia) Guess I'm fooled again 42(2) Malagasy (Madagascar) Tell me how you love me! Fig trees I planted Carry me home my heart It is in our nature to part Miss Chatterbox Come swimming! 44(8) Mandinka (Senegal, Gambia) Mandingo woman Kumo 52(4) Maasai (Kenya, Tanzania) Song of a woman Mopoi's love song 56(4) Mbosi (Congo) The Beauty Us two! 60(4) Oromo (Southern Ethiopia) O autumn of the rains 64(1) Sesotho (Lesotho) A Xhosa has taken my love The thieves 64(4) Shona (Zimbabwe) Our love by the river 68(2) Somali (Somalia) Lament for a dead lover Will I ever find your like? Love that is true 70(4) Swahili (Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Zaire) Amina Marry! What once we had... The fig is the fruit of love Quarrellers can be reconciled Sunshine Matches and petrol The rendezvous Malaika 74(18) Tigrinya (Eritrea) Asmeret 92(2) Yoruba (Nigeria) Your daughter is beautiful, we love her! Father I go to my husband's house The fulfilment of this earth's law is love The day... 94(6) Zulu (South Africa) The body perishes Love is blind With what will I wed her? You will never get her My money! Praise poem 100(7) Proverbs of Love Dagari (Burkina Faso) Dari (Chad) Fulfulde (West Africa) Hausa (Nigeria, Niger) Haya (Tanzania) Igbo (Nigeria) Kaonde (Zambia) Luganda (Uganda) Luyia (Kenya) Malagasy (Madagascar) Maasai (Kenya, Tanzania) Nembe (Nigeria) Oromo (Horn of Africa) Swahili (Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda) Tsonga (Mozambique, South Africa) Tuareg (Sahara) Turkana (Kenya) Twi (Ghana) Wolof (Senegal, Gambia) Yaka (Zaire) Yoruba (Nigeria) Zulu (South Africa) 107(21) Map of languages 128