Chigamba by Jacob Mafuleni

Come here, come here, our elders help us see what we have here.
We don’t know what to do and we have run out of ideas.
If I try to make a leaving through selling or vending the authority always
come and take away our staff.
I build my house so that i can rent it out and give me some income.
But they come and demolish it.
If I go to formal work. The salary I will get is below leaving datum line.
I tried to do farming but can’t get enough rain so always drought.
We are in between hard surface and a rock.

CHORUS:
Hwonaka chigamba chinoda wakura. Toto kura nazvo zvigamba.

Which means-
It's better to wear ton clothing when you are old.
But nowadays we grow up wearing ton cloth.

THE LEAD VOICE SAYS
Nowadays we grow up with ton cloth. Nowadays life is harder.
I don’t know what plans to do.

• Afro-fusion
• Country
• World music
• Zimbabwe
• Zimbabwean
• mbira
• mbira music
• njari
• Harare