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A music video was used to promote the single. The music video features scenes from the Rain Man movie as well as Belle Stars lead singer Jennie McKeown wearing a black outfit with blue dangling treble clefs and bleach blond dreadlocks. Jennie is also accompanied by four dancing girls in colorful outfits and a dancing man trying to persuade a ...
Lingala was made the official language of the army under Mobutu, but since the rebellions, the army has also used Swahili in the east. With the transition period and the consolidation of different armed groups into the Congolese Army, the linguistic policy has returned to its previous form and Lingala is again the official language of the Army.
The official language of the Republic of Congo is French.Other languages are mainly Bantu languages, and the two national languages in the country are Kituba and Lingala, [1] followed by Kongo languages, Téké languages, and more than forty other languages, including languages spoken by Pygmies, which are not Bantu languages.
Lingala (or Ngala, Lingala: Lingála) is a Bantu language spoken in the northwest of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the northern half of the Republic of the Congo, in their capitals, Kinshasa and Brazzaville, and to a lesser degree as a trade language or because of emigration in neighbouring Angola or Central African Republic.
The lexicologist Arizona M. Baongoli, specializing in Lingala, expounds that "ndombolo" encapsulates a genre of Congolese dance, literally meaning "gorilla" or "chimpanzee". [17] The dance choreography involves hip gyrations, showcasing the posterior while executing forward and backward movements.
Luba-Kasai, also known as Cilubà or Tshilubà, [4] Luba-Lulua, [5] [6] is a Bantu language of Central Africa and a national language of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, alongside Lingala, Swahili, and Kikongo ya leta.
Lingala is also spoken in Angola. [17] [better source needed] The San people speak languages from two families, the !Kung and Khoe, though only a few hundred speak the latter. The majority of San fled to South Africa after the end of the civil war.
The song's lyrics are about a woman who broke a man's heart by leaving him. He calls her "Ndoki" (Lingala for "Witch") for leaving him with heartache. Ndoki eza kaka synonyme ya maseke na moto te = "Witch" is not only a synonym of having horns on ones head Po na zamba ba niama mpe baza na yango na moto = Because some animals in the forest do ...