I'm not a fan of national anthems, but somehow, as was the case this morning, I had Nkosi Sikelel' I'afrika, the South African one, running through my head. I blame the lecturer who made me analyse its harmony years ago, while he gave everyone else European anthems. OK, I don't blame him at all, because it's at least not bland, and pretty catchy as far as national anthems go, plus multilingual, of course; though I only understood 2 of the 5 languages on my 1st listen (Afrikaans and English). My Xhosa and Zulu are very very basic, and my Sesotho nonexistent.
This concludes this random story about my brain jukebox on shuffle. #music#SouthAfrica#NationalAnthem https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBKjWRjwMkY
@Cassana yes it is a lovely anthem, but I also only know English, Afrikaans and some very basic Xhosa.
With the old anthem it was though translated fully into, the then, both official languages. So at my school we only sang the English version as that was our home language. I'm wondering if there are any renditions of the SA anthem in single languages.
@danie10 All I know is that there are translations into all 11 official languages, but probably not where they’d make musical sense to be a standalone single-language version, but more to know what you’re actually singing in the official version.
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