DESCRIPTION:
Released by Six Degrees Records on the Meklit album We Are Alive, March 2014 http://meklitmusic.bandcamp.com/album/we-are-alive-2
Directed by Pete Lee, Choreography: Shawnrey Notto, Dancers: Shawnrey Notto & Zeik McCarter
Director of Photography: Drew Daniels
Art Directoin: Katherine O’Toole
Dolly Grip: Stu Cantrell
Crew: Jackson Barlow
PA: Thomas Tan
The Afrettes: Helen Arega, Tanna Tucker and Shushan Tesfuzigta
Location: Monsoon Co, Oakland CA
Meklit's clothes by Weston.

Special thanks to
*The great Samuel Yirga for his creativity in this trans-Atlantic collaboration
*Abegaz Shiota for use of his Addis Ababa recording studio
*Heruy Arefe-Aine for coordinating the Meklit/Samuel Yirga collaboration
*Sandeep Sood and Erica Norris and the whole staff of Monsoon for hosting the shoot so generously.
*The brilliant extras who spent their afternoons with us
*Angkana Kurutach and The Slanted Door
*Camera Provided by Nick Serneo and Daniel Soderberg

Loose translation:
My sweet, with the beautiful afro
You with the beautiful afro

You with the beautiful afro,
Your house is at the top of the hill, mine is at the bottom
Just roll down like a ring and come to me.

Woy la la, child of my country
Woy la la, you who shares the river with me

You with the beautiful afro,
Someone could ransack my house and not find a trace of you.
That's how discreet I could be with our love

Woy la la, child of my country
Woy la la, you who shares the river with me

You with the beautiful afro,
You are driving my heart like a cattle herder drives the oxen

Woy la la, child of my country
Woy la la, you who shares the river with me

You with the beautiful afro,
You're delicious like injera and sweet like tej
A homeboy is just like that too.

Dont you leave, dont you leave....
Dont you leave, dont you leave....