So what you know about! Senegal lyrics ♫

SENEGAL lyrics (Akon) ♫: "INTRO: Akon Talking]

Yo. Incase you ain't know, I go by the name of Akon...and I'm from (Af-ree-caa! Af-ree-caa!)
Home of the Goree Islands - I'm from Senegal, West-side (Af-ree-caa! Af-ree-caa!)
So I'ma share with you where I'm from and how I was comin' up (Af-ree-caa! Af-ree-caa!)

[Verse 1]

So what you know about the struggles that my people went through so you can live the way you live now
So what you know about seeing that brand new mother givin away her newborn child
So what you know about Mr.Amadou diallo, the Senegalese cop shot down
So what you know about how people love to percieve us when we come into a brand new town
So what you know about the Goray Islands, where all the slaves were shipped from
So what you know about being born in America to avoid immigration

[Chorus]

Still from the ghetto-ooohhs of Senagal (Af-ree-caa! Af-ree-caa!)
Comin' from the ghetto-ooohhs of Senegal (Af-ree-caa! Af-ree-caa!)
Comin' from the ghetto-ooohhs of Senegal (Af-ree-caa! Af-ree-caa!)
Yes, I'm comin' from the ghetto-ooohhs of Senegal (Af-ree-caa! Af-ree-caa!)

[Verse 2]

So what you know about chebou jen,yassa, Cheraay and Maafay, my favourite foods
So what you know about niggas throwin rocks, bustin' shots at the military invadin my hood
So what you know about kids with automatic machines waiting for the war to get on that side
So what you know about how God comes first in our lives, everything that we do is for Allah
So what you know about that Holy place called Touba where Prophets are born
So what you know about comin here, gettin money and investing it back home

[Chorus]

Right in the ghettooooo of Senagal (Af-ree-caa! Af-ree-caa!)
Give it to the ghettooooo of Senegal (Af-ree-caa! Af-ree-caa!)
Take it to the ghettooooos of Senegal (Af-ree-caa! Af-ree-caa!)
Send it right to the ghetto-ooohhs of Senegal (Af-ree-caa! Af-ree-caa!)

[OUTRO: Akon Talking]

Now see that's just a little piece of how it is (Af-ree-caa! Af-ree-caa!)
See, but we can come together and make it 'lot better back home (Af-ree-caa! Af-ree-caa!)
So don't complain about how they treat me here, take your millions of dollars there, back to (Af-ree-caa! Af-ree-caa!)
We own that land, we owned those diamonds, (Af-ree-caa! Af-ree-caa!)
We kings man, we dont take orders, we give em.
Think about it."

Destination Slogans

So where do you want to explore?

If you are planning to head for God's own country, you could end up in strife-torn Israel, in Scotland or even in communist Kerala.

You can visit, Bangalore, my hometown, fondly called the Garden City. It always was. A few centuries back, Hyder Ali thought the same too; he built a garden called Lal Bagh, it helped the name stick.

Even today, when most parts of the city resembles a concrete jungle, the first thing a distinguished visitor is expected to do is, plant a sapling. You will find many such in Lal bagh. However, these days it is the Infosys campus that’s the preferred place.

Whatever happens, even when the current hype subsides, I’m sure Bangalore will remain a garden city.

Mumbai, where I live, is the Mayanagari, the city of illusions. But Mumbaikars prefer to equate ‘maya’ with dreams. Or its colourful film industry. And it is the city that never sleeps. And for all of us, who are conditioned to its humid heart, it is Amchi Mumbai – Our Mumbai.

Surrounded by the sea, Mumbai is a city like no other, except for probably ‘The Big Apple’ or New York and in some ways like, Cochin, the Queen of the Arabian Sea.

One of my favourite destinations is Hyderabad. Bangalore’s archrival when it comes to IT technology. So when Bangalore sold itself to California as ‘Silicon Valley of India’, the city of the Charminar decided to call itself Cyberabad. A name the Twin Cities (Hyderabad and Secundrabad) cops take very seriously.

And I have never been to Kolkata. I would love to visit it some day. To find out why it is called the ‘City of Joy’.

These however are names given by the citizens to places they love. And these are names that act as baits to draw people to city. To help them evolve and grow by bringing in future citizens.

Dreamy eyed youngsters, businessmen, landless farmhands and bring in much needed money through tourists.

That’s the reason tourism promotion bodies slap slogans on to cities and places.

Serendipity aka Ceylon aka Sri Lanka calls itself the "A land like no other". Maybe it is. But New Caledonia and Madagascar thinks so too.

Incredible !ndia has some of the most interesting slogans.

India is Incredible and you can’t figure that out from that huge billboard on Times Square. You need to be baptized by dirtying your nose and suffering that Delhi -belly on the subcontinent. And the experience is un-catchable in a slogan. But that doesn’t stop our regions and states from trying.

Haryana is a state wedged between Delhi, Punjab Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh in North India. The only people who seem to go there are those traveling between these other states. So no wonder Haryana Tourism calls itself: ‘A pioneer in highway tourism.’

After a quick bite at daabha in Haryana you can discover ‘Amazing heritage. Grand experiences’ in Uttar Pradesh. Pump up your adrenaline in ‘Passionate Punjab’, or soak in the richness of Rajasthan, which is ‘Simply colourful’

Some states are confused. That’s because they have too many things for the tourists to experience. Like Maharashtra - Unlimited. Or Karnataka – Theatre of Inspiration.

The solution: Tamil Nadu has a prefix: Enchanting. And since it has too many things on offer. Temples to tea gardens. Beaches to wildlife sanctuaries. The state expects you to decide: Enchanting Tamil Nadu. Experience Yourself.

Peaceful Pondicherry also requires a prefix and a line that caters to the professionals from Chennai and Bangalore with the slogan: Give time a break.

If you are wondering what Pondy looks like: close your eyes and remember that Bajaj Wave commercial where a girl goes around clapping her hands.

While ad filmmakers have discovered Pondy, the crowd seems to be headed towards Goa. Why not? Beaches and more welcome you to the state that says, It’s 365 days on a holiday.

But what about the state with the largest coastline? Vibrant Gujarat: Where life is a celebration. In spite of prohibition?

The seven sister states of the northeast, that blind spot, seems to have got its slogan right. India’s North East: Paradise Unexplored. It is going to be one of the hottest destinations in the next decade. Also:

‘The Very Heart of India’ is Madhya Pradesh.

Andaman and Nicobar is the Emerald Islands. Doesn’t Ireland call itself that?

Andhra Pradesh: The Kohinoor of India. After all the Kohinoor started its journey here.

Orissa: Scenic. Serene. Sublime

Chattisgarh: Full of surprises

Jharkhand. Rising Sun of Indian Horizon

West Bengal: The land of exotic charm

And I’m hoping to add more to the list.

Like this one: Pakistan - Land of adventure and nature. Its unofficial guest Osama will agree.

Malaysia: Truly Asia

The list is endless. The world of travel is a very noisy place! And if you remember any other destination slogans, please feel free to contact the SloganMurugan.

More about Slogans here:

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No slogan left behind

Language: No slogan left behind - Editorials & Commentary - International Herald Tribune: "On rare occasion, a political phrase becomes a template for a variety of causes. In this case, the originating phrase is 'No child left behind,' popularized by Marian Wright Edelman of the Children's Defense Fund in 1993. President Ronald Reagan had told the National Council of Negro Women in 1983 that he had 'begun to outline an agenda for excellence in education that will leave no child behind.'

Another great template phrase is 'We are all [. . .] now.' After the 9/11 attacks, the French newspaper Le Monde, usually disdainful of the United States, declared in sympathy, 'We are all Americans now.' The Boston Globe columnist Ellen Goodman wrote, 'Midwesterners who long regarded the city as if it were a foreign capital know that 'we are all New Yorkers now,'' a phrase used at the same time by Senator Hillary Clinton.

The phrase is bottomed on 'We are all Keynesians now,' startling the economic world when spoken in 1965 by the free-market conservative Milton Friedman; Lord Keynes was the exemplar of the school of government activism in driving the economy.

John Fund of The Wall Street Journal headed a 1994 column about the emergence of grass-roots alternatives to the national media with 'We are all pundits now.' Eleven years later, the headline over"

'What Happens Here, Stays Here'

Las Vegas SUN: Jack Sheehan says tourism slogan accurately describes a visitor's feelings about Las Vegas: "Some 20 years from now, long after the current run of commercials conceived and produced by R&R Advertising for the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority have been stored in the archives, the next generation of media watchers will know that 'What Happens Here, Stays Here,' refers only to this wild place we call home."

You're Going to Love it Here

'Love It' Slogan Dropped From N.H. Signs

They Love it. They Love it not.
In New Hampshire, a battle-royal over a slogan.

Nodi swami, navu irodhu heege

srican: Good Manners and Language

Satyameva Jayate. Truth alone truimphs - 2

Osama: He's Welcome In Pakistan

The truth had to come out. But will it truimph in the shifting sands of the great game political theater?

Divide and Rule Revisited.

24 Steps to Liberty says:

You guys always said you don’t get all the news from Iraq. And I always agreed with you!

I was shocked today when I read the news in the foreign newspapers. No one emphasized the marvelous cooperation and solidarity between the Shiites and the Sunnis in Iraq yesterday after the bombing of one of the most respected and visited holy sites in Islam, the Askariyah shrine, which is in Samarra city north of Baghdad. The shrine contains the remains of two 9th century Imams, Imam Ali al-Hadi and Imam Hasan Askari. They are now wrongly considered as Shiite Imams. [Just so you know, in the 9th century there weren't Shiites and Sunnis yet. There were Muslims, who were fighting each other over power. And later on they invented Sunni and Shiite parts of Islam. Also for a background, all the dead “Shiite” Imams of the earlier centuries, like Mousa Kadhum, Ali, Hussein, and others, are considered as Sunni Imams too and are very much respected by all Muslims because they descend from Profit Muhammed. Sunni Imams, like Abu Haneefa, Abdul Qadir Gailani, Ahmed Rifaie, and others, cannot be considered as Shiite Imams because not all of them share the same grandfather. Therefore, I told my friends yesterday that the terrorists played it wrong. if they want to provoke a civil war, they should attack shrines of Sunni Imams, because that would upset more Sunnis than Shiites, not like yesterday. Yesterday, the attack upset and angered Sunnis and Shiites equally.]

So where the bloody hell are you?

The World Today - Tourism minister defends 'where the bloody hell are you' slogan: "where the bloody hell are you"


Australian for greetings :)

Let's see if this new catchline for Australian Tourism will work :)

Ten, one hundred, one thousand Nassiriyas

Agenzia Giornalistica Italia - News In English

NASSIRIYA SLOGANS: ROMAN PROSECUTORS OPEN ENQUIRY

(AGI) - Rome, Feb. 21 - Rome prosecutors have opened an enquiry over possible incitement to violence (art. 414 cp) and offending the flag or other symbols of a foreign state (art. 299 cp), during the demonstration in Rome on Saturday by the radical left. Some marchers chanted slogans such as, "Ten, one hundred, one thousand Nassiriyas" and the U.S. and Israeli flags were burned. (AGI) -
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Bi'r-ruh wa'd-dam nufdika ya Imam!

Informed Comment:
"Bi'r-ruh wa'd-dam nufdika ya Imam!"
With our spirits and our blood, we sacrifice ourselves for you, O Imam!

Surprisingly, when people died the Shia's weren't as hurt. But that's not a case when a religious symbol is attacked.

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