Aya Ngena

Meaning:

There is strength in unity

We will be strong

Let us be strong

They will fear us

"Aya Ngena," a traditional Zulu song of Southern Africa, is a piece sung by the oppressed Zulu people who, under apartheid, were forcibly moved from their homelands to a government created homeland of KwaZulu (Kwa meaning place of). Apartheid in South Africa (1948 to 1994) reduced the rights of the majority black inhabitants. Under its legislation, inhabitants were classified into racial groups and non-white political representation was abolished. Black people were deprived of their citizenship, and the government segregated education, medical care, beaches, and other public services, and provided black people with services inferior to those of white people. This song refers to the relentless actions of the white European government as a cowardly attempt to hide their own sense of fear