Paraíso do Tuiuti 2022

Olodumarê sent me
Oxalá, guide me through the sky of freedom
Orunmilá spoke to me
Go, my child, spread humanity across the world
On the paths of Exu
Lost, I found this raw and naked truth
That the root of prejudice
Sprouts from the narrow gaze of cruel inequality
I’m the drummer, beating the drum
Bringing songs of pain, of war, and of peace
To see every tear of the nagô dry up
And shout for equal rights
My black blood that spills in the news
Flooded an ocean all the way to Pedra do Sal

Eh! Dandara!
The sword and the word, eh!
Won't be a slave
I will see in other black mines
A baobab malê that rose from the ground
To conquer oppression with the strength of melanin

Black is culture and knowledge
Ka Ríba Tí Yê, paths of the sun
Where Mercedes, Estelas
Through alleys and backstreets
Become a beacon
To light up Alafins
And die laughing like a thousand Benjamins
And sing! Sing! Sing
The rich beauty that came from there
And sing! Sing! Sing
To honor my Orixá

Ogunhiê! Okê arô!
Laroyê! My father, kaô
There’s noble blood of Mandela and Zumbi
In the veins of the black people of my Tuiuti