Against the humiliating bondage a thousand years
Rapacity came from afar to subjugate
them for a hundred years
Against the cynical malice in the shape
Of neo-colonialism and its petty local
servants
Many gave in and certain others resisted
But the frustrations, the successes,
the sweat, the blood
Have fortified our courageous people
and fertilised its heroic struggle
And one single night has drawn together
The history of an cntire people
And one single night has launched its
triumphal march
Towards the horizon of good fortune
One single night has brought together
our people
With all the peoples of the World
In the acquisition of liberty and progress
Motherland or death, we shall conquer