Title

Are illiterate

Why the kids here

Never go to school

'cause their notebooks are replaced by the land

Their pens are replaced by the pads

Their living is based on the land

Their home is not a paradise

Why the people here

Are starving in summer?

Why people here

Are lacking of money in rainy season?

'cause as money they have got their tiny harvest

'cause their wealth does not lay on money

Their living is based on the land

Their home is in the countryside

Why life here is so hard?

Why life here is an unbearable hell?

'cause their land is hated by the rain

Their villages are wiped out by the cyclones

Their plants are like "puppets" for the gales

Their kids are too weak and sick

Their life is so far from us

Their life is in the countryside

Our life is away in town

How is it like our life there

Very comfortable! I guess...

But it's up to us to think about them...

Lyrics of "Nahoana kay?" song from Dama [singer, song writer] of Mahaleo Band
The Number one Madagascan band

Translation done by David Andrianantenaina