Lyrics for MENTALITE AFRICAINE Mentalité Africaine (African Mentality)The monkey is a monkeyPut it in any city in the worldIt’s still a bush animalThe center of palaverI'm not thereThe center of jealousy The center of hypocritesTake me somewhere elseYou like to judge others, who's going to judge youOthers are moving forwardWhile we're moving backwardsDon't bring me palaver, jealousy, gossip,I'm not thereTake me somewhere else I don't want itAlways criticizing, but not to help progressOh Africans, We destroy in one day, But we take forever to buildOh Africans,Why do we look at the specks of sawdust in our brother's eyeAnd pay no attention to the plank in our own eyesWe always talk about change, When we ourselves have never changedOur skin is dark, our heart is darkIs this why we choose to live in the darknessWe spend time to waste time on discussions Which have no importanceWe get together only to destroy, But never to work together to buildThe center of jealousyI'm not thereThe center of wicked peopleI'm not thereThe center of gossipTake me somewhere else I don't want itFor you AfricanThe devil is someone elseNever yourselfBut you're forgetting one thingYou're like a duck that has wings, but cannot flyWhen I reached YaoundéI realized there's no differenceFrom Lomé to Cotonou towards OuagadougouIt's the same thingI went to Libreville passing through AbidjanThere's no differenceFrom Dakar to BamakoFrom Nairobi to LagosWe're all the sameKinshasa, Lusaka, Monrovia, AccraLet's changeBrazzaville, Bangui, Conakry, MalaboLet's change the mentalityCameroon change!A lost generationWe should stop complaining, when we are the cause of our problemsYou can talk, and talk, and spend time talking but don't you know that action speak louder than wordsI should ask myself what did doYou should ask yourself what did you doHe should ask himself What did he do to change the mentality?Nothing, only talkLiving in Africa or EuropeThere's no differenceLiving in America or Asia There's no...