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Wikipedia article
"'Ditany'" (usually written "'"), also known as "'" ("The Anthem of Victory", ;) or "'" ("One Single Night"), is the national anthem of Burkina Faso. Former president Thomas Sankara, also a jazz guitarist, wrote the lyrics. The composer of the melody is unknown, but it has also been attributed to Sankara.
It was adopted during his presidency in a decree issued on 2 August 1984, effective midnight on 4 August 1984, the first anniversary of Sankara's accession to the presidency. The decree also renamed the country from Upper Volta to its current name. The anthem replaced the "Hymne National Voltaque", the national anthem of Upper Volta.
Lyrics
Verses two and three and the second chorus are little known and rarely performed.
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!Mossi lyrics
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Contre la frule humiliante il y a dj mille ans,
La rapacit venue de loin les asservir il y a cent ans.
Contre la cynique malice mtamorphose
En nocolonialisme et ses petits servants locaux
Beaucoup flanchrent et certains rsistrent.
Mais les checs, les succs, la sueur, le sang
Ont fortifi notre peuple courageux
Et fertilis sa lutte hroque.
Et une seule nuit a rassemble en elle
L'histoire de tout un peuple.
Et une seule nuit a dclench sa marche triomphale
Vers l'horizon du bonheur.
Une seule nuit a rconcili notre peuple
Avec tous les peuples du monde,
A la conqute de la libert et du progrs
La Patrie ou la mort, nous vaincrons!
'II'
Nourris la source vive de la Rvolution.
Les engags volontaires de la libert et de la paix
Dans l'nergie nocturne et salutaire du 4 aot
N'avaient pas que les armes la main, mais aussi et surtout
La flamme au coeur pour lgitimement librer
Le Faso jamais des fers de tous ceux qui
et, l en poluaient l'me sacre de
L'indpendance, de la souverainet.
Et sant dsormais en sa dignit recouvre
L'amour et l'honneur en partage avec l'humanit,
Le peuple du Burkina chante un hymne la victoire,
A la gloire du travail librateur, mancipateur.
A bas l'exploitation de l'homme par l'homme!
H en avant pour le bonheur de tout homme,
Par tous les hommes aujourd'hui et demain,
Par tous les hommes ici et pour toujours!
'III'
Rvolution populaire notre sve nourricire.
Maternit immortelle du progrs visage d'homme.
Foyer ternel de dmocratie consensuelle,
O enfin l'identit nationale a droit de cit,
O pour toujours l'injustice perd ses quartiers,
Et o, des mains des btisseurs d'un monde radieux
Mrissent partout les moissons de vux patriotiques,
Brillent les soleils infinis de joie.
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Against the humiliating bondage of a thousand years
Rapacity came from afar to subjugate them for a hundred years.
Against the cynical malice in the shape
Of neo-colonialism and its petty local servants.
Many gave in and certain others resisted.
But the frustrations, the successes, the sweat, the blood
Have fortified our courageous people
And fertilised its heroic struggle.
And one single night has drawn together
The history of an entire people,
And one single night has launched its triumphal march.
Towards the horizon of good fortune.
One single night has brought together our people
With all the peoples of the World,
In the acquisition of liberty and progress.
Motherland or death, we shall conquer!
'II'
Nourished in the lively source of the Revolution,
The volunteers for liberty and peace
With their nocturnal and beneficial energies of the 4th of August
Had not only hand arms, but also and above all
The flame in their hearts lawfully to free
Faso forever from the fetters of those who
Here and there were polluting the sacred soul of
Independence and sovereignty.
And seated henceforth in rediscovered dignity,
Love and honour partnered with humanity,
The people of Burkina sing a victory hymn
To the glory of the work of liberation and emancipation.
Down with exploitation of man by man!
Forward for the good of every man
By all men of today and tomorrow,
By every man here and always!
'III'
Popular revolution our nourishing sap.
Undying motherhood of progress in the face of man.
Eternal hearth of agreed democracy,
Where at last national identity has the right of freedom.
Where injustice has lost its place forever,
And where from the hands of builders of a glorious world
Everywhere the harvests of patriotic vows ripen,
Suns of boundless joy shine.
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