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Submitted by webmaster on Sat, 05/15/2010 - 14:51
Posted by gamer123134613461346
April 29, 2007
Video Summary:
I think that this title literally means "Uncle America". However in this song "tonton" has the connotation of the "boogyman". Here's some information from http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Tonton_Macoutes.aspx
"In many countries, a bogeyman-like creature is portrayed as a man (or woman) with a sack on his or her back, who carries naughty children away. This is true for many Latin countries, such as Spain, Portugal, Brazil and the countries of Spanish America...
The "Tonton Macoutes" - [Haitian Creole=bogeymen], personal police force of dictator Francois Duvalier (Papa Doc) of Haiti. Unpaid volunteers who were directly responsible only to Duvalier, they were given virtual license to torture, kill, and extort. They murdered hundreds of Duvalier's opponents, sometimes publicly hanging the corpses as warnings. After Papa Doc's death (1971), his son Jean-Claude Duvalier (Baby Doc) changed their name to the National Security Volunteers, though they continued to terrorize the citizenry. After the overthrow of Baby Doc (1986), although officially disbanded, the group continued to spread terror.
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More information about this song is found in the video's viewer comments that are attached.
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Selected viewer comments in English* from
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* Note that most of the comments for this video are in French, which is one of the languages spoken in The Ivory Coast.
Posted in 2009:
ghettenet-" I don't understand the french lyric but the music tells me everything about his subject. its sounds great but exactly what is he singing about"
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Scudsy101-" I so wish i undersood french,because the song sounds great but i will never understand the mesage he is saying...which is obviously vry important now i see the video!"
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abdallllllllah -" He talks about the colonization of africa by the europeans and americans.... "
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famoudou -" he's saying american people give rice but not books. He's saying american brought all these fancy stuff in africa, did such incredible things... But african people can't afford it. He saying america obviously rules the world and manage finance, so they took control of companies in africa and left not much to africans. According to me the song is a mix of admiration and sadness "