Sɛnɛkɛla ni ja

SITUATION: A man tell us about a resourceful farmer named Bakari.

Transcript

Bakari ye sɛnɛkɛlaba ye. À bɛ se ka sɛnɛ kɛ k'à ta sɔgɔma fo fitiri. À tun bɛ se ka ɲɔborɛ tan ni malobɔrɛ segin ni kɔɔri toni saba sɔrɔ samiya kelen na. Nka ja nana kɛ. À san fɔlɔ la, à ma se k'à ka hakɛ kɔrɔw si sɔrɔ. Ja san filanan fana, Bakari ma foyi sɔrɔ k’à da a ka hakɛ kɔrɔw kan. À ko : "Mɔgɔ bɛ baara kɛ de ka dɔ fara i ka sɔrɔ kan, ni fɛn tɛ far'à kan, i ka kan ka fɛɛrɛ wɛrɛ ɲini." O kɔ Bakari ye dɔ fara à ka kɛnɛ kɔrɔw kan, n'olu ye maloforo kɛnɛ ye, ani ɲɔforo kɛnɛ, ani kɔɔriforo kɛnɛ. À ye foro kuraw bɔ. À ko : "Foro kɔrɔw sɔrɔ ni foro kuraw sɔrɔ mana fara (ɲɔgɔn-) [NOTE: The narrator stumbles over his words here], jamana ka nafa b'o la. Ja nana, o ye tiɲɛ ye, nka ja man kan ka cɛ fɛɛrɛ bɛɛ bɔ i kɔnɔ. An t'à fɔ bamanakan na wa ko cɛ fɛɛrɛ mana ban, à ka cɛya banna?"

Bakari is a big farmer. He can farm from morning until dusk. He used to get ten sacks of millet, eight sacks of rice, and three tons of cotton in one rainy season. But the draught came. During its first year, he wasn't able get any of his old quantities. The second year of the draught, Bakary didn't get anything more than his previous amounts. He said, "A person works to add to their yield. If nothing gets added to it, you need to look for another solution." After that, Bakari added some to his old surfaces, that is, the surface of rice field, the surface of his millet field and the surface of cotton field. He cleared new fields. He said, "When the yield of the old fields and the yield of the new fields are combined- the country benefits. The draught came, that's true, but a drought mustn't take away a man's resourcefulness. Don't we in Bambara that when a man's resourcefulness is done, his manhood is done?

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