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Wakan Sule (A Song for a Shilling)

from HAUSA

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 August 2019

By
Malam Bello Osman
Edited by
Victoria Ellen Smith
Malam Bello Osman
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Summary

Let us get up, men and women to chase a shilling

Let us get up, men and women to work for a shilling

Let us get up, men and women to work hard,

Let us get up, men and women to work hard for our daily bread.

How are we going to get our daily bread?

We get our bread with a shilling.

Let us look into the field today, and see what a shilling has done.

A shilling has placed others to be Heads of States,

Others to be big above their friends, others to possess big houses,

Others, fine clothes, others sweet foods, and others degrees in Education.

Others become engineers, others doctors and others economists.

So brothers and sisters, let us get up and work hard for a shilling.

See! today, a shilling has sent others to prison,

Women to run away from their husbands,

Women to run away from their parents,

Fathers to run away from their children,

Just in need of a shilling.

The poem continues for many more verses.

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Voices of Ghana
Literary Contributions to the Ghana Broadcasting System 1955–57
 , pp. 148
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Print publication year: 2018

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