Mdou Moctar - "Afrique Victime" (Official Lyric Video - English)

[@Roronoa79]

I was pleasantly surprised to see this record on sale at the local vinyl store. So great to see these guys get the recognition they deserve. There *will* come a day when Africa receives justice!

[@scottjensen1380]

Stevie ray Vaughn carried on the legacy of late Jimi Hendrix for a while, but I think that torch should comfortably go to Mdou Moctar and the Tuareg music scene now

[@johngalloway156]

Agreed. I never thought I would hear a player that excited me the way Hendrix did - but now I have!

[@theletterbleeds]

The best guitarists nowadays are definitely found in th Tuareg/Tishoumaren scene

[@skyrothman8651]

Hendrix, Stevie ray Vaughn, Dean Ween and Knopfler are the only guitarists that capture me more than Mdou Moctar

[@the2ndcoming135]

🥇

[@headin0ut]

Agree

[@scotchrobbins]

One of maybe a couple of truly original guitarists this decade, so refreshing.

[@programmer1840]

Just found this guy yesterday on KZbin, sounds awesome. Sahara Rock I think they call it

[@ruben7801]

@@programmer1840 the genre is usually called Tishoumaren

[@hackdan]

Anyone else want to make a revolution with this song in the background?

[@anakein]

I'm game.

[@jeffcannon7763]

Long Live the Fighters!

[@alonsom4270]

nope

[@CubitRE]

+1

[@CubitRE]

​@anakein +1

[@TheIndogamer]

3:23 "Oh Ghaddafi, you have left, to whom have you entrusted Africa?" That line hits hard, knowing what Muammar Ghaddafi meant to Libya and Africa.

[@justgivemethetruth]

What?

[@ShhhPeaceful87]

few people in the western world understand this

[@chadielmzouri2073]

@@ShhhPeaceful87 Ghaddafi was batshit crazy and never meant anything to anyone.

[@eliasramirez9599]

@@ShhhPeaceful87 you sir are absolutely right

[@anakein]

One man's terrorist, another man's freedom fighter.

[@jfk64kennedy95]

Metal head from New England, USA.....2 thumbs up...guitarist is fantastic

[@hackdan]

I can feel how this sound is touch me at deep way. It s a true statement because can pass through the idioms, eras, cultures and more. Respect from Mexico

[@robertgappa5828]

Thankful at 70 now and having seen some things. This I'm very lucky to have heard. Please. I've paid some dues. This helps throw some load off my feet and rocks me' to the next pair of HappyGrampy Sneakers. This is like Robin Trower and Johnny Winters mated with someone who is tripping on the guitar and not tripping and playing guitar.

[@Kitschensyngk]

Greetings from Kansas, U.S.A. The guitar on this track is MINDBLOWING!

[@arihukoku8224]

Happy Eid Mubarak to all Muslims and Mdou Moctar!

[@johamidmirgl532]

Greetings from America. Great song

[@stevenrenfro5064]

I grew up in America in a charter school with many turkish teachers and I got into middle eastern pop music, which got much more into international music as a whole. I've never heard anything like this with such a unique sound.

[@aerdeniz]

As a Turkish person I can say it does have some of that baglama like tunes in there with the melody but this song later on becomes something truly unique.

[@akshat_khare]

Much love from India ❤️❤️❤️ I sincerely hope you become an international artist .

[@papafranku4684]

Oh wow! I'm Indian too, North Eastern. Apologies in advance for not knowing mainland language. Do you listen to other Mdou Songs? If so, does he sometimes sing in Hindi or an Indian-spoken language? There's some songs I could have sworn had some Indian in them 😂😅

[@theogeitondasamphilochos5630]

I LOVE this song, not only cuz it's honest and strong political outcry but also cuz it's still beautiful Tuareg lament. I'd love to sing it by myself all days, which would be great for it as both of political outcry and just a song Love from Japan

[@headin0ut]

Wow, die Gitarre, einfach super Sound und die Message dahinter. Lieber Gruss aus der Schweiz💕

[@azulazul2594]

Amazing song. Cheers from Uruguay :)

[@VonGehenna]

Great song and noble message, keep it up guys. Your Arabian friend.

[@brahimaabou7092]

Amazigh friend

[@m.kamedyoussouf8163]

Tanemirt thank you

[@nedjmanedjma4089]

Bravo Mdou Moctar ! Vive l'Afrique !Vive le panafricain smell !

[@lordjuliano702]

The sound of bambara blues, i have a flash back about my trip in Bamako in 2006. A so peacefull country, no war, free to go to the nord of Mali in taxibrousse...

[@easong2148]

I can hardly wait to see this guy, hopefully this coming September!

[@michelbortoluz]

Best discover of 2021, this band is faboulous!

[@ctoptop978]

Augist 2022 for me.....& WOW!!!!

[@Groovemaster-tr2ie]

Amazing work! Love from Arkansas, United States!

[@spacebass79g98]

🤘🏽Arkansas!

[@snowball905]

hell yeah man keep jammin , from england

[@masoudahmadi4019]

One of the best songs 2021 ,I think

[@80thtasties85]

Mesmerizing work - cheers from germany!

[@elvintiranbalan5882]

very2 underrated song! Cheers from Malaysia!

[@esteban.bernal]

This is an amazing song, and the whole album is great too. I'd love it if the lyrics were in the original languages though, I get some of the French parts but not much else and I'd love to learn it that way too.

[@miniwattnetwork8204]

it sound mixed languages, perhaps some words on Touareg idiom don't sounded as the rhyme or maybe such words don't exist on their original idiom... if someone can teach us, I'd greatly be grateful in advance... cheers from Brazil, South America is the younger sibling of Africa

[@Son_Of_Bangoua]

My African Jimmy Hendrix!

[@anakein]

Come to India please. And mesmerise us. Mdou Moctar for the win! ♡

[@logiconlyzone]

To play live without this song is not a live at all. I don’t even understand…. Where is the fighting for Africa?

[@Bignate55]

This rocks my dudes🤘🏻 🎸🔥

[@Oli-gc6by]

J’adore ! Ça me rappelle quand l’Afrique était française

[@pseudopathicus2524]

The emotion in the first minute is unbearable💔💔💔 hits hard so hard

[@richardsteer9655]

The KEXP live version is hot stuff-look out for Mdou’s “Woo hoo hoo! at the start!

[@king.2597]

Love from Syria💝

[@KvisTwig]

Bela! Amo de tiu ĉi Esperantisto!

[@patrickweston3293]

Thanks for the longer version of this great song!

[@romainenoiran7802]

Superbe chanson. Superbe guitariste. France

[@7528204]

Wtf this is amaaazing

[@tanakayuto148]

KZbinにおすすめされてこのバンドを知ったけどこんな歌詞とは知らなかったな アフリカのロックだ

[@Younesarchi3d]

Parish brought me here, anyone else? A masterpiece ...

[@tanju_sarı]

remarkable guitar playing but as a group they are also shining...they have a very special resonance..

[@depretorevincenzo6617]

Mdou rocks!

[@pro-lapser]

I'd love a transcription of the lyrics on their original language TuT

[@reginaldorodrigues3530]

Oh Kadafi...🔥🔥🔥

[@TheSoundofU]

wow! love your message! & you guys rock! :-)

[@jeffcannon7763]

Long live the Fighters!

[@normanfischer1019]

Shredding extraordinaire.

[@ionutsfetcu4550]

These dudes are the best

[@groopmmex]

Love you guys

[@aydenkaszas]

absolutely great

[@mujtabahamdard8713]

lyrics are meaningful and bussing on god

[@しのとも-s1l]

最高です！🇯🇵🗻🗼🏯🌸

[@camillehikari2956]

ですよね😻❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@rainardzulfanp319]

such an amazing song

[@runtrainer7394]

Masterpiece

[@mopintree]

GUAU!

[@hazujh7]

You are awesome c:

[@thenightbeats]

Thankyou

[@susmittayade4643]

Fabulous work...🔥🔥🔥

[@brianjolly5656]

Love this sound like tinarawin.

[@J3nsi251]

great music

[@frankgarcia9834]

Lovely music

[@m.kamedyoussouf8163]

de courage frère ⵜⴰⵎⵓⵙⵜ

[@nonameishere7234]

What language is that?

[@m.kamedyoussouf8163]

you don't know ? language that the music speaks

[@nonameishere7234]

@@m.kamedyoussouf8163I think tamachek but I'm not sure.

[@m.kamedyoussouf8163]

Yes is tamacheq

[@abdourebbihlhasnaoui6247]

جميل جدا وروعة ، 🇲🇦🇲🇦🇲🇦 ،👍👍👍.

[@pandopando-x7i]

1:25 panda crime

[@abdoulahinouh---officiel3451]

#Top :) ✌️💪💪💪🔥🔥🇳🇪

[@MrJiwer]

Sarkozy: Black man has not entered history. Mdou Moctar:

[@medagoumar8477]

Ikna

[@Omar83e]

great you are waiting May for the new

[@musictouareg8275]

Mi piace vivo in Italia

[@paololuvara7955]

Anche io, la scena desert Nordafricana è spettacolare. Pardon, touareg.

[@alyadagair4598]

🔊🔊🔊🔥🔥

[@ultraSabotaj]

Does anyone have the actual original lyrics? The only text I can find online is the full french version however this is not totally in line with what he sings.

[@didiramone]

rock

[@peterdellas9236]

sick

[@МиколаТопало-к2й]

What language are the singing on? Also - does anyone know where to get their original lyrics?

[@paololuvara7955]

I’m looking for that too; it sounds french to me, but probably it isn’t.

[@kinonico]

Some of it is in French (the first half of the first verse/lament) and the rest is supposedly in 'Tamasheq', one of the Tuareg people's languages.

[@ivankovacevic9462]

Great shit!! 🙃

[@sankara2191]

Nice

[@dudelsaladt]

♥♥♥♥ i love it ♥ really cool guys keep it up ♥ maybe we could remix something of yours ? as a techno dance. let's get in touch ♥♥♥♥ Awa yularen, riq-q.

[@bingbong6066]

🙏

[@pabloabehsera]

nice

[@abohac]

Who's Kadafi?

[@platotle2106]

Mu'ammar Al-Qadhdhāfī, horrific deposed dictator of Libya.

[@Sam-lp1qs]

@@platotle2106 Or a proponent of the United African cause…

[@platotle2106]

@@Sam-lp1qs were all the Libyans he killed not African? Do you actually care to look at things from a reasonable perspective and recognize criminals regardless of whether they're pro-US or not (Gadaffi incidentally happens to have had some support from some elements in the US gov). Because until you're able to judge things ethically and without contrarian cronyism, you will never be able to understand the struggles of the people you claim to champion.

[@Sam-lp1qs]

@@platotle2106 Gadaffi has no support from the US, the us military bombed Libya and helped him get overthrown. Do you think Libya is better now or when he was back in power?

[@platotle2106]

@@Sam-lp1qs I said quote "some support from some elements in the US government." I'm very careful that what I'm saying is actually true. And no, Libya hasn't been doing well *since* he first killed protestors indiscriminately. That was probably the worst period in recent Libyan history. He started it, he put it in place, he'd had a monopoly on power in the country for 35 years. Libya is Gaddafi's doing just as it is the doing of western powers and US allies currently intervening in Libyan affairs and at every point precluding the internationally recognized government from holding elections.

[@te9591]

Not bad.

[@dustyhatkins]

This is a great song, but is it a coincidence that it sounds so similar to Bambino's Imuhar?

[@platotle2106]

The Kadafi line I couldn't understand. Is it supposed to be supportive of critical? Like, if they're supportive of the Arab spring as mentioned in the previous line, there's no way they would be lamenting Kadafi's leaving. Can someone translate better?

[@bluechamp1527]

The translation is correct What follows is my personal opinion (as an Arab) and maybe not the one of the singer: You cannot look at the "Arab spring" with a holistic perspective. That's often times how it is depicted from the occident, but actually the situation in Lybia was different from the situation in Tunisia, etc. These revolutions were sometimes justified, sometimes not; but certainly not always done well. We can say what we want about Khadafi, but at that time, the GDP was almost three times higher than now, you had free healthcare and free education, very little violence. More or less, there was no crisis. Thankfully France and US "helped". Now you have muslim extremists "elected" after having bribed/forced much of the population, and all of the above qualities are gone. But, hey, now the west has their oil for a better price :) That's why even if we don't praise Khadafi, we can recognize that the situation is worse now. Democracy was not installed well, or the country was not ready. Hence the lyrics "Khadafi you left, who do you leave Africa to" make sense Again, that's just my interpretation!

[@platotle2106]

@@bluechamp1527 @BlueChamp I'm assuming you live in the west and probably the US, no? I don't know how you can consider any of the Arab spring uprisings to be unjustified. And they didn't have to be chaotic, all the governments had to do was not kill protestors and make remotely honest attempts at reform. What they all knew is that any nod at democracy would eventually lead to their downfall thanks to how utterly untenable their grips on power are. All of the things that were amplified after 2011 had been fermenting for years under the surface. All the human trafficking and slave labor had already been occurring less conspicuously. Things don't just pop up out of nowhere. I don't know who these ""elected" Muslim extremists" are. The US-ish, France, pretty much all the US allies in the region, and *Russia* are currently supporting the same guy, Haftar (a US citizen and supposed anti-extremist), against the internationally recognized government. The two sides have reached some agreements and were supposed to have elections this month, that were delayed thanks mostly to Haftar. Let's hope things go well.

[@bluechamp1527]

@@platotle2106 for some reason my comment isn't posted, so I'll reply in several parts... So for where I live, I did Middle East -> Europe -> Eastern Asia. And part of my family is from the Maghreb. My background is nuanced and so is my perspective :)

[@bluechamp1527]

I would consider an uprising unjustified if it's not conducted by the actual majority of the population, but minor groups + the backing of some international and external forces. In the case of Libya I find it tricky. You agree to a narrative, me to another

[@bluechamp1527]

Now even if we assume that it was justified, let's forget about the "why" and focus on the "how" instead. You can't deny that the situation in Libya is much worse now that a decade ago. From citizens: Can't paste links, but research the keywords "quora was Libya better under the reign of Gaddafi" And even from EU sources: "euronews ten years on since gaddafi"

[@LuxembourgExposed]

nice song but don't understand who how decimates you?!

[@nabilamine8328]

Sorry my friend you now everything and all people on this earth news but we need some dark mind to make life easy for us but we are juste passenger in this life and it s very short for evrybody l am happy our life is not very long africa is the base of half this word and the beautiful continent but man is man frendly

[@ImGreatAndYou]

To put it in few words: The white man

[@folkpine]

Wovenhand brought me here

[@nonameishere7234]

What is that? A movie?

[@folkpine]

@@nonameishere7234 a band. The greatest band of all time.

[@lateralis]

DEE talked about this band? :)

[@folkpine]

@@lateralis yeah he posted their songs some 3 times on facebook

[@lateralis]

@@folkpine so cool, thanks for the info!

[@spekkio77]

I like these guys but sounds too much like Amidine by Bombino

[@phileete]

Masterpiece