Shakira - Waka Waka (Esto es África; Waka Waka, this is Africa)

21 Aug 2025

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Otra, otra
Otra, otra
Otra, otra
Otra, otra
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Another, another
Another, another
Another, another
Another, another

Shakira

Llegó el momento, caen las murallas
Va a comenzar a la única justa de las batallas
No duele el golpe, no existe el miedo
Quitate el polvo, ponte de pie y vuelves al ruedo
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
The moment has arrived, the walls are falling
The only fair battle is about to commence
The hit doesn't hurt, fear doesn't exist
Dust yourself off, stand up, and return to the ring

Shakira

Y la presión, se siente
Espera en ti tu gente
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
And the pressure, is felt
Your people are waiting for you

Shakira

Ahora vamos por todo
Y te acompaña la suerte
Tsamina mina zangalewa
Porqué esto es África
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Now we go for it all
And luck is with you
Come, come, who told you to come?
Because this is Africa

Shakira Freshlyground

Tsamina mina eh, eh
Waka waka eh, eh
Tsamina mina zangalewa
Porqué esto es África
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Come come, eh, eh
Do it, do it, eh, eh
Come come, who told you to come?
Because this is Africa

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Shakira

Oye a tu Dios y no estarás solo
Llegaste aquí para brillar y lo tienes todo
La hora se acerca, es el momento
Vas a ganar a cada batalla, ya lo presiento
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Listen to your God, and you won't be alone
You came here to shine, and you have it all
The hour is approaching, it is the moment
You are going to win every battle, I can already feel it

Shakira

Hay que empezar de cero
Para tocar el cielo
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
You must start from zero
To touch the sky

Shakira

Ahora vamos por todo
Y todos vamos por ellos
Tsamina mina zangalewa
Porqué esto es África
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Now we go for it all
And we all go after them
Come, come, who told you to come?
Because this is Africa

Shakira Freshlyground

Tsamina mina eh, eh
Waka waka eh, eh
Tsamina mina zangalewa
Anawa, ah ah
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Come come, eh, eh
Do it, do it, eh, eh
Come come, who told you to come?
It was me, ah ah

Shakira Freshlyground

Tsamina mina eh, eh
Waka waka eh, eh
Tsamina mina zangalewa
Porqué esto es África
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Come, come, eh eh
Do it, eh, eh
Come, come, who told you to come?
Because this is Africa

Freshlyground

Ame la mejole biggi biggi mubbo wa A to Zet
Asi tsu zala makyuni biggi biggi mubbo from east to west
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Teams are back to defend their country, from A to Z
They defeat each other to defend their country from east to west

Freshlyground

Bathi waka waka ma eh eh waka waka ma eh eh
Zonke zizwe mazi buye
Cause this is Africa
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
As they say, "do it, do it, ready, eh, eh, do it, do it, ready, eh, eh"
All nations must return
'Cause this is Africa

Freshlyground

Tsamina mina, anawa, ah ah
Tsamina mina
Tsamina mina, anawa, ah ah
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Come, come, it was me, ah, ah
Come, come
Come, come, it was me, ah, ah

Shakira Freshlyground

Tsamina mina eh, eh
Waka waka eh, eh
Tsamina mina zangalewa
Anawa, ah ah
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Come come, eh, eh
Do it, do it, eh, eh
Come come, who told you to come?
It was me, ah ah

Shakira Freshlyground

Tsamina mina eh, eh
Waka waka eh, eh
Tsamina mina zangalewa
Porqué esto es África
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Come, come, eh eh
Do it, eh, eh
Come, come, who told you to come?
Because this is Africa

Shakira Freshlyground

Yango eh eh
Yango eh eh
Tsamina mina zangalewa
Anawa, ah ah
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Wait, eh eh
Wait, eh eh
Come, come, who told you to come?
It was me, ah ah

Shakira Freshlyground

Yango eh eh
Yango eh eh
Tsamina mina zangalewa
Anawa, ah ah
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Wait, eh eh
Wait, eh eh
Come, come, who told you to come?
It was me, ah ah

Shakira

Porqué esto es África
Porqué esto es África
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Because this is Africa
Because this is Africa

Freshlyground

Zama qhela
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Try to stay away

Shakira

Llegó el momento, caen las murallas
Va a comenzar a la única justa de las batallas
No duele el golpe, no existe el miedo
Quitate el polvo, ponte de pie y vuelves al ruedo
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
The moment has arrived, the walls are falling
The only fair battle is about to commence
The hit doesn't hurt, fear doesn't exist
Dust yourself off, stand up, and return to the ring

Shakira

Y la presión, se siente
Espera en ti tu gente
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
And the pressure, is felt
Your people are waiting for you

Shakira

Ahora vamos por todo
Y te acompaña la suerte
Tsamina mina zangalewa
Porqué esto es África
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Now we go for it all
And luck is with you
Come, come, who told you to come?
Because this is Africa

Shakira Freshlyground

Tsamina mina eh, eh
Waka waka eh, eh
Tsamina mina zangalewa
Porqué esto es África
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Come come, eh, eh
Do it, do it, eh, eh
Come come, who told you to come?
Because this is Africa

Shakira

Oye a tu Dios y no estarás solo
Llegaste aquí para brillar y lo tienes todo
La hora se acerca, es el momento
Vas a ganar a cada batalla, ya lo presiento
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Listen to your God, and you won't be alone
You came here to shine, and you have it all
The hour is approaching, it is the moment
You are going to win every battle, I can already feel it

Shakira

Hay que empezar de cero
Para tocar el cielo
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
You must start from zero
To touch the sky

Shakira

Ahora vamos por todo
Y todos vamos por ellos
Tsamina mina zangalewa
Porqué esto es África
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Now we go for it all
And we all go after them
Come, come, who told you to come?
Because this is Africa

Shakira Freshlyground

Tsamina mina eh, eh
Waka waka eh, eh
Tsamina mina zangalewa
Anawa, ah ah
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Come come, eh, eh
Do it, do it, eh, eh
Come come, who told you to come?
It was me, ah ah

Shakira Freshlyground

Tsamina mina eh, eh
Waka waka eh, eh
Tsamina mina zangalewa
Porqué esto es África
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Come, come, eh eh
Do it, eh, eh
Come, come, who told you to come?
Because this is Africa

Shakira Freshlyground

Tsamina mina eh, eh
Waka waka eh, eh
Tsamina mina zangalewa
Anawa, ah ah
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Come come, eh, eh
Do it, do it, eh, eh
Come come, who told you to come?
It was me, ah ah

Shakira Freshlyground

Tsamina mina eh, eh
Waka waka eh, eh
Tsamina mina zangalewa
Porqué esto es África
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Come, come, eh eh
Do it, eh, eh
Come, come, who told you to come?
Because this is Africa

Shakira Freshlyground

Yango eh eh
Yango eh eh
Tsamina mina zangalewa
Anawa, ah ah
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Wait, eh eh
Wait, eh eh
Come, come, who told you to come?
It was me, ah ah

Shakira Freshlyground

Yango eh eh
Yango eh eh
Tsamina mina zangalewa
Anawa, ah ah
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Wait, eh eh
Wait, eh eh
Come, come, who told you to come?
It was me, ah ah

Shakira

Porqué esto es África
Porqué esto es África
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Because this is Africa
Because this is Africa

Shakira Freshlyground

Tsamina mina eh, eh
Waka waka eh, eh
Tsamina mina zangalewa
Porqué esto es África
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Come come, eh, eh
Do it, do it, eh, eh
Come come, who told you to come?
Because this is Africa

Shakira Freshlyground

Tsamina mina eh, eh
Waka waka eh, eh
Tsamina mina zangalewa
Anawa, ah ah
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Come come, eh, eh
Do it, do it, eh, eh
Come come, who told you to come?
It was me, ah ah

Shakira Freshlyground

Tsamina mina eh, eh
Waka waka eh, eh
Tsamina mina zangalewa
Porqué esto es África
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Come, come, eh eh
Do it, eh, eh
Come, come, who told you to come?
Because this is Africa

Freshlyground

Ame la mejole biggi biggi mubbo wa A to Zet
Asi tsu zala makyuni biggi biggi mubbo from east to west
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Teams are back to defend their country, from A to Z
They defeat each other to defend their country from east to west

Freshlyground

Bathi waka waka ma eh eh waka waka ma eh eh
Zonke zizwe mazi buye
Cause this is Africa
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
As they say, "do it, do it, ready, eh, eh, do it, do it, ready, eh, eh"
All nations must return
'Cause this is Africa

Freshlyground

Tsamina mina, anawa, ah ah
Tsamina mina
Tsamina mina, anawa, ah ah
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Come, come, it was me, ah, ah
Come, come
Come, come, it was me, ah, ah

Shakira Freshlyground

Tsamina mina eh, eh
Waka waka eh, eh
Tsamina mina zangalewa
Anawa, ah ah
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Come come, eh, eh
Do it, do it, eh, eh
Come come, who told you to come?
It was me, ah ah

Shakira Freshlyground

Tsamina mina eh, eh
Waka waka eh, eh
Tsamina mina zangalewa
Porqué esto es África
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Come, come, eh eh
Do it, eh, eh
Come, come, who told you to come?
Because this is Africa

Shakira Freshlyground

Yango eh eh
Yango eh eh
Tsamina mina zangalewa
Anawa, ah ah
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Wait, eh eh
Wait, eh eh
Come, come, who told you to come?
It was me, ah ah

Shakira Freshlyground

Yango eh eh
Yango eh eh
Tsamina mina zangalewa
Anawa, ah ah
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Wait, eh eh
Wait, eh eh
Come, come, who told you to come?
It was me, ah ah

Freshlyground

Zama qhela
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Try to stay away