New Year’s Greetings from The CIHA Blog

The CIHA Blog wishes our readers a safe, healthy, peaceful, and joyful New Year. The year 2020 has been strange and difficult for all — one in which over one million people across the globe lost their lives to the coronavirus. But as a Wolof proverb puts it: “Garab lo ca goob mu saxàti” – the split tree still grows. 

Today, we post New Year’s wishes and season’s greetings from our multi-country team:

Deweneti – Wolof (Senegal, The Gambia, Mauritania)

Feliz año novo – Portuguese Creole (Senegal-Casamance, Guinea-Bissau)

Sangkutoo ye Diya – Mandinka (The Gambia)

Umattal sammenge – Ajamaat or Joola/Diola (Sénégal, The Gambia, Guinea-Bissau)

Noheli nziza, Umwaka mushya muhire – Kinyarwanda (Rwanda)

Joyeux Noël, Bonne Année – French (Francophone countries)

Tunawatakieni kila la heri mwaka mpya wa 2021 – Swahili (Kenya, East Africa)

Sinifisela ukhisimusi omuhle, nonyaka omusha onenjabulo – Zulu (Southern Africa)

Amazarwa g’omucunguzi ag’eihoreere, n’omwaka omutsya omurungi – Kinyankore (Uganda)

Mbotama elamu mpe mobu mwa sika molamu – Lingala (Republic of Congo and Democratic Republic of Congo)

Afehyia pa, afenhyia pa – Akan (Ghana)

Waxaan ithin rajeyneynaa damantiin sanad cusub – Somali (Somalia)

Tratry ny taona – Malagasy (Madagascar)

Geseënde kersfees en voorspoedige nuwe jaar – Afrikaans (South Africa and Namibia)

Sambe sambe. Allah ka san koura here – Bambara (Mali)

عيد ميلاد مجيد وعام سعيد – Arabic (Arabophone countries)


Original image from ASA 2017