Articles about 'Cameroonian Children's Songs'
December 10th, 2011
Nyango M. Nambangi sent us this Cameroonian song from her childhood in Africa. It’s a lovely song to sing with children and they can even dance while singing! Like many African songs, it’s a call and response song.
In the recording below, Nyango explains how to sing and dance to the song. Then she sings...
June 13th, 2010
Warning: This song is extremely catchy! All you have to do is listen to the mp3 below and then watch the video at the link and you’ll be singing it for weeks.
This song is called “Marry Me” or “A Little Sailor Boy”. It’s about men in different professions coming to ask a young...
May 20th, 2010
Nyango sent me this song from Cameroon, Africa that’s about the shape of Italy. Here’s what she wrote: “…wondering if I had given you this song we learn as children in Cameroon during Geography. It goes;
The shape of Italy is admittedly
Often described as the shape of a boot
The shape of Italy is admittedly
Often...
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April 19th, 2010
In the past, I posted the Victorian poem “My Mother” written by Ann Taylor. Ann was the sister of Jane Taylor the author of Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star. It turns out that 2 verses of this poem are sung by children in Cameroon, Africa as a song.
I posted the poem My Mother...
January 28th, 2010
Nyango Melissa, originally from Cameroon, recently sent me these songs with a recording. Here’s what she wrote with the mp3 of the songs…
Just thought of these the other day. The clock/time songs sound a lot like they’re of British origin:
MP3 of Tick Tock Songs
1) Tick, says the clock, tick, tick,
What you have to do,...
October 26th, 2009
I woke up this morning with a cup of coffee and by listening to “Good Morning to You” in English, French and some African languages on my computer. What a wonderful way to wake up!
The recording was done by recording a phone call over the internet. Thanks to Nyango Melissa for calling and...
October 25th, 2009
Nyango M. Nambangi sent us this Cameroonian song from Africa. What’s even better is that we have a recording to go with it!
Nyango wrote: “Here’s a song our mother taught us and her Middle School students. The tune is very British, in my opinion, but I have not been able to find...
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