The abatimbo are the master drummers of Burundi. In the word abatimbo there is the suffixe imbo which is an natural region of Burundi around lake Tanganyika. The suffixe abati comes from the verb guta which means to throw or to leave.
The drummers of the ancestors
still sound to our ears and have
a rythm which sound like our ancestors
calling us for some more victories we have
forgotten along the way and the ancestors
make an appeal to our generosity which we have
kept in us for future generations with our ancestors
therefore there was a reason to worry about who you have
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