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[wildernesscat]

The first verse from the Burkina Faso national anthem, translated to English.

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 corageous people and fertilized its heroic struggle.

I'm sure it sounds much better in its native French version.