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MAASAI SONGS OF PRAISE AND
PRAYER TO GOD

 

There is nothing we can do to duplicate the awesome experience of sitting under the village tree in Matebete village hearing our Maasai brothers and sisters singing their songs of praise to God. Still, we have no doubt that you will be very moved by these videos.

 


"Etagore Papa langa'te Shumata" (Our Father in heaven in angry). Lead singer, Anna Kisota. Translated into English by Faraja Kurubai. Recorded December 2004 in Matebete Village.

 


"Aingasiakita Iltunganak lenakata" (It's an Awful Generation). Lead singers: Irene Lobara and Ruth Kuyato. Translated from Maa by Faraja Kurubai. Recorded November 2005 in Matebete Village.

 


"Papa lai Imbatisaki ana Yesu" (My Heavenly Father baptizes me like Jesus). Lead singer, Anna Kisota. Translated from Maa by Faraja Kurubai. Recorded December 2004 in Matebete Village.


 

"Teretu Iyook Papa" (Give us a hand, our Heavenly Father). Lead singer, Anna Kisota. Translated from Maa by Faraja Kurubai. Recorded December 2004 in Matebete Village.




"Enkai ai iye eteserema Mussa Te shumata Oldoinyo" (Moses Worshipped you, my God, in the Mountain). Lead singer, Ruth Kuyato. Translated from Maa by Faraja Kurubai. Recorded December 2004 in Matebete Village.

 


"Sikiliza Ndugu Yangu" (Hear My Brother) sung by Maasai Children's Choir in Matebete Village, Tanzania. Translated from Kiswahili by Faraja Kurubai. Recorded December 2004.