I am a teacher of English in the United States. I designed a poster for my classroom of Fatoumata Diawara with the words "Let's show the world our culture." My students come from Africa, Nepal, and Puerto Rico. I want them to be proud of who they are. My student from Congo pointed to the poster the other day and said "Who is this?" She had never heard of Fatoumata. I wish there was a children's book about her to help inspire students to be proud of their heritage.
"Kokòrò" meaning "tradition" 'heritage" or "culture." The message is so powerful. "We want to look like the Europeans, the Chinese, the Arabs, the Indians, etc. Who is going to love us? Who is going to perpetuate our culture?" Good question for all African artists who imitate other people instead of sharing their culture with the world.
@@alexanderjimenez2781 It is not Swahili, which is spoken in Eastern Africa (Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, etc.) It's Bamanan or Jula, a key language of the Mandingo people in West Africa. In the movie series "ROOTS", a slave said "misi muso" meaning "cow" ( literally "female bovine"). That was Mandingo or Bamanan which Europeans call Bambara. You can see it as a language or a dialect. The distinction is often very hard to make with African tongues which exceed 2000 in number.
This song makes me so proud to be a chi look d of the ancestors, it just does things to me. I would love the translation to the lyrics.. all the way from SA
Toutes les Maliens et africains sont fiers de toi FATOUMATA DIAWARA mes respect à vous. j'ai besoin votre réponse s'il vous plaît en tant que malien🇲🇱🇲🇱🇲🇱🇲🇱
I saw you at Jazz In The park, Romania.. None of my friends knew about you so I begged of them to come here and hear you play. Needless to say you simply blew their minds including mine. You now have 6 more Romanian fans
Vous fêtes un sacré boulot pour la promo de la culture Africaine de façon générale, plus singulièrement la promo de la diversité culturelle du Mali dans l’universelle Chapeau et bonne continuation
Much love from a Jamaican to Africa and all it's indigenous people. We are the true children of Israel and we will all be together soon. 🌍🇪🇹🇨🇬🇨🇮🇳🇬🇲🇱🇬🇭🇯🇲🇿🇦🇹🇿🇱🇷🇧🇷🇹🇬🇧🇯🇸🇸🇸🇩🇦🇴 🇹🇹🤛🏿💪🏿. Long live Africa and Africans.
I first saw you on colors... your voice touches many people's souls as I can tell by the comments, including mine. It's more than your voice even. It's your eyes, and your passion. You're one of a kind, truly.
Wallah rien que la vérité Fatoumata diawara je t’aime force au Mali 🇲🇱 et je suis fière de toi je te kiffe depuis à soissons c’est une ville de France 🇫🇷 🌋❤️❤️🔥🩸🔥🇲🇱🇲🇱🇲🇱🇲🇱✅
The day I stumbled upon your music, I knew you're a blessing to Africa. I am spreading your music amongst my friend in Nigeria and my African friends from Uganda. I love your music. Love from Nigeria 🇳🇬
One more beautiful song, from the greatest singer of Mali today. Fatumata Diawara holds the level of the Malian music which both with Ethiopian & the Tuareg music, are the best & more authentic & keeping it in a traditional way, melodic on Africa. Congratulations Fatumata!!!
J’ai des armes aux yeux 👀 Fatoumata Diawara, j’ai trop kiffé ton nouveau clip ❤️❤️🇲🇱🇲🇱✌🏻notre kokoro c’est la meilleure culture wallah 🇲🇱🇮🇪🇬🇳🇬🇭🇬🇲🇨🇩🇨🇬🇧🇫🇿🇦🇦🇴🇧🇪🇨🇲🇰🇲🇳🇬🇳🇪🇸🇳🇹🇬
Sis your music makes me proud to be an African from the Diaspora. When I see talent like yours and the imagery I know that what they say about the continent is so not true. Not that I believed it because I had a powerful mother RIEP who gloried her entire life in her African Heritage.
je suis un inconditionnel depuis bien avant LAMOMALI et j'avoue que vous apportez une vision sereine et diverse de l'Afrique, plus particulièrement de de Mali où je me suis installé pour ouvrir une galerie d'art contemporain avec le jeune artiste émergent Famakan Magassa. Ce que vous apportez à la culture est d'une très grande hauteur d'esprit. Au plaisir de vous rencontrer à Bamako.
Moi l'occidentale, je compte sur vous, frères et soeurs africains, pour protéger ce qu'il nous reste de valeurs humaines... Ici en Occident, c'est difficile... Je fais ce que je peux dans ce monde qui marche sur la tête mais où tout n'est pas à jeter... Je suis fière de ma culture provençale... Qui connaît et aime sa culture est bien placé pour accepter la culture des autres car il sait ce que ça représente de façon universelle. Merci Fatoumata pour ce très beau texte et ces images incroyables !!! Et merci pour la traduction anglaise qui me permet d'accéder au texte donc au message 😘
Don't want to say anything that starts a discussion but I think we all should accept ourselves and embrace our cultures and accept cultures of others, after all diversity it's what makes us beautiful and unique 🧡
Si la majorité de notre génération pouvaient suivre cette dame dans tous ses idéologie musicale,je pense que ça va beaucoup nous apporter pour notre réveil de conscience
Ms Fatoumata.... your music touches the soul! My first experience with your voice and story telling was with Nterini, then Mali, then Dèsole... Nterini made me cry before I knew the translated meaning and it was then I felt your soul! Love from Europe sister 💖💞 you inspire me to stay a strong young woman and feel music fully.
Fatuma, my honey, I love you so much. I also love your song Nterini. Thank you, Ethiopia, for leaving the music video for Nterini and seeing our country. May Allah increase your life. Abby King from Ethiopia🇪🇹🇪🇹🇪🇹🇪🇹🇪🇹🇪🇹🇪🇹🇪🇹🇪🇹🇪🇹🇪🇹🇪🇹🇪🇹
Dear Fatou i first heard an unmarked audio tape of Baaba Maal’s record ‘the travellers’, and i was transported and i thought it can’t get any better than this; and then i saw Oumou Sangaré when she first came to Vancouver on a rainy winter night in a small upstairs club where the stage was a small riser only 1meter high and there was no railing to separate us, and when the girls sang i thought ‘it can’t get any better than this’; and then i listened to Genesisi Endlu Nkulu and thought how is such an impossibly beautiful thing possible?, and now i am listening to Fatoumata Diawara and i know that i am feeling and alive and full of thanks. Much love from Canada please come visit
“Because they see us as slaves Our ancestors have abandoned us” ‼️ I was ready to die before becoming anyone’s slave. Now I learned that our people should not kill ourselves but those who enslave us. Thank you. Africa to di World 🌍 🇹🇬🇪🇹
I am a teacher of English in the United States. I designed a poster for my classroom of Fatoumata Diawara with the words "Let's show the world our culture." My students come from Africa, Nepal, and Puerto Rico. I want them to be proud of who they are. My student from Congo pointed to the poster the other day and said "Who is this?" She had never heard of Fatoumata. I wish there was a children's book about her to help inspire students to be proud of their heritage.
Excellent what you did as a teacher. Fatoumata Diawara is a pure form of representing Africa through music and songs that are so melodious ❤🙏🌱😎🪁🪂🙏🦚
God bless you ma’am 🎉
"Kokòrò" meaning "tradition" 'heritage" or "culture." The message is so powerful. "We want to look like the Europeans, the Chinese, the Arabs, the Indians, etc. Who is going to love us? Who is going to perpetuate our culture?" Good question for all African artists who imitate other people instead of sharing their culture with the world.
And, KOKORO means "heart/soul" in Japanese.
Soul pleasing
Salute the African rich heritage
Is that in Swahili? Greetings from Dominican republic my ancestors came from Africa for that reason I would like to know more about African culture.
@@alexanderjimenez2781 It is not Swahili, which is spoken in Eastern Africa (Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, etc.) It's Bamanan or Jula, a key language of the Mandingo people in West Africa. In the movie series "ROOTS", a slave said "misi muso" meaning "cow" ( literally "female bovine"). That was Mandingo or Bamanan which Europeans call Bambara. You can see it as a language or a dialect. The distinction is often very hard to make with African tongues which exceed 2000 in number.
Greetings from Brasil!!
Notre reine d'Afrique !
Bisous de la Martinique à notre continent tellurique
Fatoumata Diawara I am togolese but when I leasen your voice je peux ressentir l'originalité de ma culture africain relatée
Iam from ETHIOPIA i love your music
your music melody like gigi ethiopian quen of music love u
You make me so proud to be an African woman. Greetings from South Africa 🇿🇦🇿🇦
Proud Africa!!! Big up!
@@fatoumatadiawara_ i gnokon ka dôgô anw ka donkilidalaw la i ma gninè i bô yôrô kô ini tié
@@togoali325 🙄🙄🙄🤒
@@torresdeanfield7313 you Can not understand it's language use in Mali our country
This song makes me so proud to be a chi look d of the ancestors, it just does things to me. I would love the translation to the lyrics.. all the way from SA
Diaspora here Trinidad and Tobago 🇹🇹
Where are my Malian people ! 🇲🇱🇲🇱🇲🇱🇲🇱🇲🇱
So prouddddd
Proud your culture and your ancestors. It’s important massage.
Love from Ghana 🇬🇭
Thanks!!! Love back to Ghana 🇬🇭
Wly tu as tout dit fatou💚💛❤
Her voice is like a soothing medication.
Grande ouvrière de la termitière de la culture Mandinka (mandingue)
The purest of African culture and heritage on display. Thank you Fatoumata. Please come to Nigeria
It's refreshing to see a Nigerian brother with the same music taste...
One love.
This lady's sound hypnotizes me 😵💫😵💫
Sending Love from your African-American sister in Texas, USA! Love your music and love Malian music & culture!😄💜💞🌹🌹
. Thanks you
Texas here!👊🏿
C'est le meilleur maman long vie à toi
Love from Nigeria🇳🇬🇳🇬 Fatoumata😍
It's refreshing to see a Nigerian brother with the same music taste...
One love.
This lady's sound hypnotizes me 😵💫😵💫
Great lyrics! Very inspirational - from an Haitian woman who is proud of her African ancestry!
Toutes les Maliens et africains sont fiers de toi FATOUMATA DIAWARA mes respect à vous. j'ai besoin votre réponse s'il vous plaît en tant que malien🇲🇱🇲🇱🇲🇱🇲🇱
Kokoro means Crown in Setswana greetings from South Africa
Kokoro means heart in japanese!❤️ greets from 🇧🇷
A pure definition of the Internet as it should be used.
@@brunoluiztv de nada bruu
Kokoro mean old things like culture in bambara language that she sing in 🇲🇱🇲🇱🇲🇱
@@kulthomkeita8157 pretty pretty language, I love
I saw you at Jazz In The park, Romania.. None of my friends knew about you so I begged of them to come here and hear you play. Needless to say you simply blew their minds including mine. You now have 6 more Romanian fans
Vous fêtes un sacré boulot pour la promo de la culture Africaine de façon générale, plus singulièrement la promo de la diversité culturelle du Mali dans l’universelle
Chapeau et bonne continuation
Tu es un bon responsable c'est bien faut toujours suivre notre tradition
Much love from a Jamaican to Africa and all it's indigenous people. We are the true children of Israel and we will all be together soon.
🌍🇪🇹🇨🇬🇨🇮🇳🇬🇲🇱🇬🇭🇯🇲🇿🇦🇹🇿🇱🇷🇧🇷🇹🇬🇧🇯🇸🇸🇸🇩🇦🇴 🇹🇹🤛🏿💪🏿.
Long live Africa and Africans.
Merci m’a sœur je t’aime 🥰
I first saw you on colors... your voice touches many people's souls as I can tell by the comments, including mine. It's more than your voice even. It's your eyes, and your passion. You're one of a kind, truly.
Salut 😍
Wallah rien que la vérité Fatoumata diawara je t’aime force au Mali 🇲🇱 et je suis fière de toi je te kiffe depuis à soissons c’est une ville de France 🇫🇷 🌋❤️❤️🔥🩸🔥🇲🇱🇲🇱🇲🇱🇲🇱✅
Vous avez le bonjour du Sénégal !
The day I stumbled upon your music, I knew you're a blessing to Africa. I am spreading your music amongst my friend in Nigeria and my African friends from Uganda. I love your music. Love from Nigeria 🇳🇬
Thank you so much! Big up to Nigeria!!! Loveee
Nurudeen bro. You’re not the only Nigerian that loves this woman 😊❤️🙌🏾. Big Love Fatoumata ❤️🙏🏾
At the begins I saw man raised from the dead is an inspiring story to me , salute from Tanzania 🇹🇿
Longue vie à toi fatoumata Diawara 💯💯❤
I'm ivorian and I'm watching it from Belarus ♥️♥️♥️♥️
J'ai fais une biographie sur toi,
Tellement je te trouve extraordinaire
Beautiful Fatou, I'm proud of you.
My argentine heart also has an african rithm.
🇦🇷🇦🇷🇦🇷🇦🇷💗💗💗
Merci pour la culture africaine grand sœur
feeling the tribal energy.... here in Ethiopia
Wow that's powerful, Greetings from South Africa ❤️💛💚.
Tonight I am going to see you♥️
Thank you for making wearing cowry shells on my wrist more cooler than wearing an AP continue to cherish your music and our culture.
💛greetings from the ♥️ Vlaanderen België 😌🌸
One more beautiful song, from the greatest singer of Mali today.
Fatumata Diawara holds the level of the Malian music which both with Ethiopian & the Tuareg music, are the best & more authentic & keeping it in a traditional way, melodic on Africa.
Congratulations Fatumata!!!
Wallah ! C'est la vérité Fatoumata Diawara merci 💚🇲🇱💛🇲🇱❤️
Beautiful Mama Africa and her children! Sending love!
J’ai des armes aux yeux 👀 Fatoumata Diawara, j’ai trop kiffé ton nouveau clip ❤️❤️🇲🇱🇲🇱✌🏻notre kokoro c’est la meilleure culture wallah 🇲🇱🇮🇪🇬🇳🇬🇭🇬🇲🇨🇩🇨🇬🇧🇫🇿🇦🇦🇴🇧🇪🇨🇲🇰🇲🇳🇬🇳🇪🇸🇳🇹🇬
🇲🇱🇹🇬
Proud
@@hamdyibra9505 donc t’es 🇲🇱🇹🇬 ✌🏼❤️
Vraiment on devrait être nous !
❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ depuis la Guinée 🇬🇳 de Sékou Touré
Sis your music makes me proud to be an African from the Diaspora. When I see talent like yours and the imagery I know that what they say about the continent is so not true. Not that I believed it because I had a powerful mother RIEP who gloried her entire life in her African Heritage.
je suis un inconditionnel depuis bien avant LAMOMALI et j'avoue que vous apportez une vision sereine et diverse de l'Afrique, plus particulièrement de de Mali où je me suis installé pour ouvrir une galerie d'art contemporain avec le jeune artiste émergent Famakan Magassa. Ce que vous apportez à la culture est d'une très grande hauteur d'esprit. Au plaisir de vous rencontrer à Bamako.
Moi l'occidentale, je compte sur vous, frères et soeurs africains, pour protéger ce qu'il nous reste de valeurs humaines... Ici en Occident, c'est difficile... Je fais ce que je peux dans ce monde qui marche sur la tête mais où tout n'est pas à jeter... Je suis fière de ma culture provençale... Qui connaît et aime sa culture est bien placé pour accepter la culture des autres car il sait ce que ça représente de façon universelle. Merci Fatoumata pour ce très beau texte et ces images incroyables !!! Et merci pour la traduction anglaise qui me permet d'accéder au texte donc au message 😘
Kokoro super 🇲🇱💪👍🤲🙏💗💗💯
Beautiful. Fatou you are one of the greatest African musicians of all time. This song is a masterpiece!
Wow cool much love from Ethiopia
Love from Mali 🇲🇱
Elle a tellement raison qui vas prendre la place de soundjata 🙏🏾
Merci
Merci pour cet hommage à nos ancêtres.
México presentes!!! 😍
Gracias desde España 🇪🇦
Greetings from Tanzania. KOKORO hits good
When I listen yr voice I always feel so big yr presence in my side, I'm just fan from Bamako❤♪✅
Wow you are truly a Kamiti. Amen Hotep. Sister!!. ♥ ️ ♥ ️ ♥ ️
Greetings from Chile, i love your culture, your energy, and of course your guitar!
Your art it's amazing!
Don't want to say anything that starts a discussion but I think we all should accept ourselves and embrace our cultures and accept cultures of others, after all diversity it's what makes us beautiful and unique 🧡
Love from jamaica ❤️
Kokoro c'est m'a spiritualité Africaines.❤️❤️❤️❤️🇨🇮🤒
One of the best musical artists. Every song is always beautiful
So true. I love every one of her songs. I love you fatou. U are the best,❤️
La culture n'a pas de définition
La culture c'est tout
C'est la valeur suprême d'une nation
Bravo FD
Depuis Maroc !
I love your videos! So strong SISTER WARRIOR!
10 h de vol c'est chaud tonton lol
Si la majorité de notre génération pouvaient suivre cette dame dans tous ses idéologie musicale,je pense que ça va beaucoup nous apporter pour notre réveil de conscience
Malian and proud to be it 💗💗🇲🇱 🇲🇱💕💕. Great career to your our pride Fatoumata Diawara
Sending Love from RSA🇿🇦. Beautiful Fatoumata ❤️.. Beautiful song
Fatoumata tu es une fierté non seulement malienne tu es aussi une fierté africaine que dieu t'en garde et donne une longue vie 🥰🇲🇱🇮🇹
C est dommage que le continent Africaine ne connaît pas la valeur de cette grande dame 😭😭😭 longue vie à roi Siya yattabarè
Waw, j'écoute ça en haut d'un rocher qui surplombe une baie du Finistère Nord, un soir d'été: magnifique.. 🥰
I am so glad, feel so privileged to have been able to watch this premiere! Many, many thanks.
Salut Alicia
Coming back to our source. Good message in deed!!! You are the best!!!
Un grand merci pour ce beau clip. Much love from Burundi
Ms Fatoumata.... your music touches the soul! My first experience with your voice and story telling was with Nterini, then Mali, then Dèsole... Nterini made me cry before I knew the translated meaning and it was then I felt your soul!
Love from Europe sister 💖💞 you inspire me to stay a strong young woman and feel music fully.
Félicitations fatoumata diawara 💯❤🇲🇱✅
Hotep hotep ma reine. La grande promotrice de la culture mandingue 🇬🇳🇲🇱
Greets from Mozambique 🇲🇿
Ears on in NC, USA😎
Love from Kurdistan ☀️
Fatuma, my honey, I love you so much. I also love your song Nterini. Thank you, Ethiopia, for leaving the music video for Nterini and seeing our country. May Allah increase your life.
Abby King from Ethiopia🇪🇹🇪🇹🇪🇹🇪🇹🇪🇹🇪🇹🇪🇹🇪🇹🇪🇹🇪🇹🇪🇹🇪🇹🇪🇹
Preciosa 💖un saludo desde la República de Mali Bamako🇲🇱💚💛❤
Without understanding her words, the images seem to be saying the African is one with Mother Earth. Powerful rhythm, absolutely, damn!
Awwww my queen 👑 never disappointed us,,,
Une multitude d'instruments et de styles musicaux qui servent ici à transmettre la culture Sahélo-Malienne aux oreilles du monde !
Dear Fatou i first heard an unmarked audio tape of Baaba Maal’s record ‘the travellers’, and i was transported and i thought it can’t get any better than this; and then i saw Oumou Sangaré when she first came to Vancouver on a rainy winter night in a small upstairs club where the stage was a small riser only 1meter high and there was no railing to separate us, and when the girls sang i thought ‘it can’t get any better than this’; and then i listened to Genesisi Endlu Nkulu and thought how is such an impossibly beautiful thing possible?, and now i am listening to Fatoumata Diawara and i know that i am feeling and alive and full of thanks. Much love from Canada please come visit
That guitar🙌🏿
Your magic has touched me in Australia. Powerful lyrics of wisdom. Setting me free to dance with joy!
“Because they see us as slaves
Our ancestors have abandoned us” ‼️
I was ready to die before becoming anyone’s slave. Now I learned that our people should not kill ourselves but those who enslave us. Thank you. Africa to di World 🌍 🇹🇬🇪🇹
Notre fierté partout dans le monde entier 🇲🇱🇲🇱🇲🇱🇲🇱 je t'aime ♥️
Sending love from Trinidad 🇹🇹. This is such a beautiful offering.
❤ I love your music, your style ! A lot of love from Italyyy 🇮🇹
Sending love from Italy I love Africa mama as an Africa boy this music up lift my soul
La fierté du Mali je t'aime très fort ❤❤❤❤❤❤
Love love 😍😍from Kenya 🇰🇪
We are from Afrika💓💓🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥