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Zulile speaking kotomisi as not macghillie, Rotterdam 2011
I am that kotomisi that comes and goes
Rauw handel, dat ben ik doch, dat ben ik doch. (Mieser Handel, das bin ich doch, das bin ich doch)
kotomisi, camouflage for run away tracks,
raw handel
terug, stuitend, terug in mijn cultuur (zurück, empörend, zurück in meiner kultur)
nu, ik will het nu, (ich will es jetzt)
je hebt mijn kleur losgemaakt, (du hast meine farbe entfesselt)
nu ben ik kleurrijk (nun bin ich knallbunt)
mijn naam is kotomisi
kot, kot, kot, kot
kot, kot,
faya stong to no bron mi so, no bron mi so – (Hot stone (i.e. penis of slave master), please don't burn me, don't burn me)
I down
kot, kot, kotomisi
koto, koto-misi, talking
hmmmm
tan, tan tiri a non, Tan tiri a non don (reden ist silber, schweigen ist gold)
Tan tiri a non don
kotomisi talking, from far lands
faya stong to no bron mi so, no bron mi so
the free, the free and I
this, this, this mental abondance called slavery
slavernij
still you ask me where what and how comes
encase you, throw down my way of thinking
so what you ask me, hmmm?
you really want to know?
so wha-, so wha-, so wha-, so what?
you re just asking to to see, to find the kotomisi dread lines?
a lonti kon dansi (lasst uns im kreis tanzen)
I am still tracked, tracked, tracked
at the bottom of communities backs
I am bigger than men, bigger than men
that woman that is camouflaged
when we run away in the forest landscape
you cant see I am
I am that kotomisi that comes and goes
Rauw handel, dat ben ik toch, dat ben ik toch. (Mieser Handel, das bin ich doch,
das bin ich doch)
faya stong to no bron mi so, no bron mi so
kotomisi, camouflage for run away tracks,
raw handel
terug, stuitend, terug in mijn cultuur (zurück, empörend, zurück in meiner kultur)
nu, ik will het nu, (ich will es jetzt)
je hebt mijn kleur losgemaakt, (du hast meine farbe entfesselt)
nu ben ik kleurrijk (nun bin ich knallbunt)
ik ben terug, ik ben terug (ich bin zurück)
mijn naam, mijn naam is
kotomisi
check mi no? (Siehst du mich nicht?)
Me na prodo sma? (Bin ich nicht hübsch gemacht?)
Me dat de weri African print (I am dressed in African clothes)
Pret
Mi dat de foe Westcoast Africa, Ghana (I am from the Westcoast of Africa, Ghana)
you wanned me to be de, de, defeminized
you want to defeminize me
I am feminin now
and I wear you proud with colour, colour, colour
my idenity is back, back, back
chip, chop
you want kot, kot, kot, kot, kot, me down
a lonti kon dansi
koto, koto, koto, kotomisi
i am that kotomisi that walks up and down
a lonti kon dansi
a prodo mi da de, prodo lek chamaeleon (ich schmücke mich wie das chamaeleon)
when I want a green, when I want a blue, when I want a yellow, it`s, it`s coded
and the coded, the coded language is just for you, me, I
no, no, not you, you are excluded in this
but that is alright, because I was exluded long, long, long time ago
en nu ben ik terug
mijn naam is
kotomisi



















































