Burkina Faso National Anthem

I. Against the humiliating yoke, a thousand years ago already, Against the greed that came from afar to enslave them a hundred years ago, Against the cynical malice transformed Into neocolonialism and its petty local servants, Many faltered and some resisted, But the failures, the successes, the sweat, the blood Have strengthened our courageous people And made its heroic struggle fertile. REFRAIN And a single night gathered within itself the history of an entire people, And a single night set off its triumphal march Toward the horizon of happiness; a single night reconciled Our people with all the peoples of the world In the conquest of freedom and progress. Homeland or death, we shall prevail. II. Nourished at the living spring of the revolution, The committed volunteers of freedom and peace, In the saving night-time energy of the 4th of August, Had not only weapons in hand but also, and above all, The flame in their hearts to rightfully free Faso forever from the chains of all those who, Here and there, defiled its sweet soul Of independence, of sovereignty. III. And seated henceforth in its recovered dignity, Sharing love and honor with humanity, The people of Burkina sing a hymn to victory, To the glory of liberating, emancipating labor. Down with the exploitation of man by man! Hey! Forward for the happiness of every man, By all men, today and tomorrow, By all men, here and forever. IV. Our popular revolution, nourishing sap, Immortal motherhood of progress with a human face, Eternal hearth of consensual democracy, Where national identity at last has its rightful place, Where injustice loses its ground forever, And where, from the hands of the builders of a radiant world, The harvests of patriotic hopes ripen everywhere, The infinite suns of joy shine.