Samba-Enredo 2022 - Ka Ríba Tí Ÿe - Que Nossos Caminhos Se Abram

Hello, my Tuiuti!
Whoever is against, will cry
Because, if God is for us
Who will be against us?
The door of the slave quarters opened!
It's the footprint of an African, huh?

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

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

Olodumarê sent
Oxalá to guide me
Through the sky of freedom
Orunmilá told me
Go, my son, sow humanity around the world
In the paths of Exu
Losing myself, I found, naked and raw, this truth
That the root of prejudice
Sprouts from the narrow gaze of cruel inequality
I am an alabê drumming the drum
Bringing songs of pain, war, and peace
To see all Yoruba tears dry
And shout for equal rights
My black blood that flows in the newspaper
Flooded an ocean to the Pedra do Sal

Yes! Dandara!
The sword and the word, yes!
She won't be a slave, yes!
To see in other black mines
A Malê baobab born from the ground
To overcome oppression
With the strength of melanin

Yes! Dandara!
The sword and the word, yes!
She won't be a slave, yes!
To see in other black mines
A Malê baobab born from the ground
To overcome 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 lanes
Become a lighthouse
To illuminate Alafins
And die laughing alone, like a thousand Benjamins
And sing! Sing! Sing
The dark beauty that came from there
And sing! Sing! Sing
To salute my Orixá