Chirikuré Chirikuré

Ndipo patakamuviga pano

اللغة: الشونا

الترجمات: الانجليزية (This is where we laid him to rest), الألمانية (Hier legten wir ihn zur Ruhe)

Ndipo patakamuviga pano

(kumagamba ese akaradzikwa mumasango)

Ndipo patakamuviga pano,
  Pano parukakangarabwe, muchivavani,
     Pakati pezvimatombo nemiunga,
        Kunge chiya chikara chesango,
          Chisina achazocheuka mangwana.

Ndipo patakamuviga pano,
  Pasure pekunge adauka pamberi pedu,
     Achipika, uku rake gidi richipururudza,
       Akananga kuvhurira vamwe tese nzira,
          Kuti tiwane kubuda parumananzombe.

Ndipo patakamuviga pano,
  Pasure pekunge adamburwa nemhandu,
     Chake chifuva changova mamvemve,
        Iro ivhu ramedza ropa, razvimbirwa,
           Yeduwo misodzi ranwa, raguta.

Ndipo patakamuviga pano,
  Amboswera, akavata, katatu,
     Achibinyauka sedora riri muchainga,
        Nyota achipomhodza nemisodzi,
          Nzara achitapudza nemututu.

Ndipo patakamuviga pano,
  Mazuva matatu ekupedzisira tashushana,
     Achiti chindisiyai ndirote zvangu,
       Imi muende mberi neChimurenga,
         Isu tichiti, kwete, tiri tose muhondo.

Ndipo patakamuviga pano,
  Tose tisingazivi kana chimwe chake:
      Zita, mhuri, mutupo kana dzinza,
         Zvose kwatiri ichingova mhindo.
           Taingoziva: Uyu mwana weivhu!

Ndipo patakamuviga pano,
  Pasina ngoma kana mhururu,
    Kana muteuro kana detembo,
      Kana chitombo kana chizhuzhu,
        Kana urongwa hwekuzorova guva.

Ndipo patakamuviga pano,
  Vake amai vanongova murima,
     Vake baba hameno vakarotswa,
        Rake dzinza kuti richazochenura?
          Chinoziva chete ivhu: mwana rakamedza.

Ndipo paari, Komuredhi Kunozvarwa Vamwe,
  Gamba rakaita muchato negidi,
    Mhare yakachererwa imba nebhayoneti,
       Ndokufukidzwa ivhu nemagaro epfuti,
          Ndokuchemwa nezvipuka zvesango.

I-i-i-i-h! Varume!
Ndipo paari pano!
Ndipo ipo pano!

الترجمات:

اللغة: الانجليزية

This is where we laid him to rest

Right here on this rocky, bare ground

Right here in the middle of thorny bushes

Just here, as if he was an animal of the jungle

A wild beast, a brute no one cares about

This is where he lies buried

After he had darted ahead of us all

Swearing intensely, his gun chattering

Paving with fire an escape route,

A passage for his besieged comrades

This is where we laid him to rest

After the enemy had cut him down

His breast riddled with hot bullets

The soil below soaked with his blood

We, dripping gun powder laden tears

This is where he lies buried

After spending three days and nights

Writhing like an alive worm on fire

Quenching his thirst with tears of pain

Licking his own blood to cheat hunger

This is where we laid him to rest

A man we knew nothing about

Not even name, family or totem

All we knew was one solid thing:

He was a true son of the soil

This is where he lies

A fighter who was married to his gun

A hero whose grave we dug with bayonets

A warrior who has dust as his tombstone

A son of the soil, mourned by wild beasts

اللغة: الألمانية

Hier legten wir ihn zur Ruhe

Hier legten wir ihn zur Ruhe
Gleich hier in dieser steinigen, nackten Erde
Gleich hier inmitten von Dornenbüschen
Einfach hier, als wäre er eine Kreatur des Dschungels
Ein wildes Tier, ein Vieh, um das sich niemand schert

Hier liegt er begraben
Nachdem er uns allen vorausgeeilt ist
Heftig Fluchend, mit knatterndem Gewehr
Mit Feuer einen Fluchtweg bahnend
Einen Korridor für seine belagerten Kameraden

Hier legten wir ihn zur Ruhe
Nachdem der Feind ihn niedermähte
Seine Brust zerfetzt von heißen Kugeln
Die Erde unter ihm getränkt von seinem Blut
Wir, schießpulverschwere Tränen vergießend
(Und wir vergießen schießpulverschwere Tränen)

Hier liegt er begraben
Nachdem er drei Tage und Nächte lang
Sich wand wie ein lebendiger Wurm über dem Feuer
Seinen Durst mit Schmerzenstränen stillte
Und sein eigenes Blut leckte, um den Hunger zu täuschen.

Hier legten wir ihn zur Ruhe
Einen Mann, von dem wir nichts wussten
Nicht einmal Name, Familie oder Totem
Nur eins wussten wir ganz sicher:
Er war ein wahrer Sohn der Erde

Hier liegt er
Ein Kämpfer, der verheiratet war mit seiner Waffe
Ein Held, dessen Grab wir gruben mit Bajonetten
Ein Krieger, der den Staub zu seinem Grabstein hat
Ein Sohn der Erde, beweint von wilden Tieren

Chirikuré Chirikuré

* 17.03.1962, Gutu, زيمبابوي
يعيش في: Harare, زيمبابوي

Chirikuré Chirikuré was born in Gutu, Zimbabwe, in 1962. He is one of Africa’s well-known performer of lyrical poetry.

Chirikuré is a graduate of the University of Zimbabwe and an Honorary Fellow of Iowa University, USA. He worked with one of Zimbabwe’s leading publishing houses as an editor/publisher for 17 years, until 2002. He now works as a cultural consultant and freelance editor and translator. He was also involved in several theatre productions as an actor, poet and performer.

Chirikuré has published three volumes of his poetry: “Rukuvhute” (1989), “Chamupupuri” (1994), “Hakurarwi – We Shall not Sleep” (1998). He has contributed some pieces in a Shona poetry anthology, “Zviri Muchinokoro” and to CD-projects against political repressions in Zimbabwe. Chirikuré has also written and translated a number of children’s stories and published some educational textbooks.

Chirikuré performs mostly with musicians and traditional African instruments, often with Chiwoniso Maraire or Okay Machisa. His performances at the Rotterdam and Medellín poetry festivals were celebrated in equal measure by the press and the public. His works are significant for the unique link between traditional African poetry and song forms with non-African, avant-garde departures.

His first three poetry books received first prizes in the annual Zimbabwe writer of the year awards. In 2004 his book 'Hakurarwi - We shall not sleep' was voted as one of the best 75 Zimbabwean books of the century and as one of the best five books published in the Shona language in the last century.

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