New Lahash Podcast <> Trans-Nile Song

Here is a new podcast - featuring a song by Timothy Bata of Kampala, Uganda. He and fellow musician Kalwaza Shaban recorded this song last year. It speaks of the devastation that AIDS has had on the community and confronts the immorality that so often leads to death and the abandonment of orphans. The beautiful song is recorded with traditional instruments.

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Kalega
(By the Trans-Nile Ensemble - Translation of lyrics by Kalwaza Shaban)

You’re half-way dressed,
A mature girl half-way dressed!
Surely it is an absurd word.
Oh! What an absurd word
The girl is an absurd maid.

Youths come for a common cause,
It's absurd and disastrous!
The HIV/AIDS and its effects.

That HIV/AIDS has mistreated us
All white blood cells it takes
Among the youths it has spread.

AIDS the disaster has orphaned children,
Nations have been demolished
Sadaibi's children have been orphaned.

Orphans all over the Nations
Because fathers, adulterers, they died!
Widows and children devastated.

You’re half way dressed, “Naigaga!”
Surely it is an absurd act.