The uncertainty of a new world forced them
to swim like camels in the deep blue waters
to see you mirror yourself
in the two great seas and two forgotten oceans.
Oh, my...
Those who took their destiny unquestionably to foreign lands
still crave for a piece of your beauty.
But not I, for I see the day when my time will come
and with my trembling body I will lay by your sacred shore
where my infant body once laid.
The angry waves of your waters
will caress me and swallow me whole,
It will be there that I will take my last breath; Oh, my Africa.