{"id":26052,"date":"2013-12-15T14:53:05","date_gmt":"2013-12-15T19:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/?p=26052"},"modified":"2013-12-17T10:54:29","modified_gmt":"2013-12-17T15:54:29","slug":"quote-soweto-gospel-choir-celebrates-nelson-mandelas-passing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/?p=26052","title":{"rendered":"Quote: Asimbonanga &#8211; Soweto Gospel Choir"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Screen-shot-2013-12-05-at-5.21.47-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-25864\" alt=\"Screen shot 2013-12-05 at 5.21.47 PM\" src=\"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Screen-shot-2013-12-05-at-5.21.47-PM.png\" width=\"487\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Screen-shot-2013-12-05-at-5.21.47-PM.png 870w, http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Screen-shot-2013-12-05-at-5.21.47-PM-300x203.png 300w, http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Screen-shot-2013-12-05-at-5.21.47-PM-800x542.png 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 487px) 100vw, 487px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"col-ab\" id=\"post-content\" style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; float: left; width: 650px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; background-color: #ffffff; text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<p>Shoppers in a Johannesburg Woolworth experience Soweto Gospel Choir flashmob \u2013 many of whom posed as workers \u2013 to perform Asimbonanga (We have not seen him), a call for freedom written during Mandela\u2019s incarceration in prison.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"490\" height=\"276\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MHHjP7XrBq0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The lyrics are as follows:<\/p>\n<p>Asimbonanga [we have not seen him]<br \/>\nAsimbonang\u2019 uMandela thina [we have not seen Mandela]<br \/>\nLaph\u2019ekhona [in the place where he is]<br \/>\nLaph\u2019ehleli khona [in the place where he is kept]<br \/>\nAsimbonanga<br \/>\nAsimbonang \u2018umfowethu thina [we have not seen our brother]<br \/>\nLaph\u2019ekhona [in the place where he is]<br \/>\nLaph\u2019wafela khona [in the place where he died]<br \/>\nSithi: Hey, wena [We say: hey, you]<br \/>\nHey, wena nawe [Hey, you and you]<br \/>\nSiyofika nini la\u2019 siyakhona [when will we arrive at our destination]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shoppers in a Johannesburg Woolworth experience Soweto Gospel Choir flashmob \u2013 many of whom posed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":25864,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12756786,18,124715115],"tags":[124716287,124716234,124716286,124716288],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26052"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26052"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26059,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26052\/revisions\/26059"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}