In My Africa

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D.W. and Cheik singing their finished song to the class

In my Africa is a Season 14 episode in which we meet Cheik Brain's cousin from Africa. He is D.W.'s friend.

Plot

The main episode features D.W. trying to learn all about Africa. Cheik realises that she is finding it hard, so they both make up a song about it and sing it at the end, explaning about all of the different places (while teaching us a thing or two).

Lyrics:

Part One

54 things 54 Things to see and to explore In My Africa, whoa, whoa, whoa In My Africa, whoa, whoa, whoa The continent of Africa is deep and long and wide. With 54 countries to keep my song diversified There`s rhythmic beats, new things to eat, and places you can go And every day a different way that you can say hello For instance meeng-gah-bou is howdy-do when visiting in Ghana Dumela ma is how you say "Hello" inside Botswana The Muslims greet the folks they meet with Salaam-Alaikum In Gambia, Morocco and Sudan`s hometown cartoon In My Africa, whoa, whoa, whoa In My Africa, see this when you go Burundi`s got the deepest lake and then the highest peak Jet set from Tanzania just next door to Mozambique And carving through the continent there flows the mighty Nile Pass Uganda, Eritrea and look out! A crocodile! Namibia`s wild skeleton coast is littered with wrecked ships And Cote d`lvoire has chocolate fields -- I love my chocolate chips~ Victoria Falls in Zambia -- it makes a mighty sound Zimbabwe shares the falls as well, there`s lots to go around In My Africa, whoa, whoa, whoa In My Africa, life is all a glow.

Part 2:

In My Africa, whoa, whoa, whoa In My Africa, there`s lots of food they grow The Comoros has the Selacamp, the prehistoric fish In Congo, they eat Wamba stew -- that stew`s my favorite dish In Sao Tome and Principe, they like their food with spice The fish in Mauritius is hot and delicious, it`s really very nice Sahara in Algeria`s a hot and arid land Vacation in the Seychelles and relax upon the sand The Madagascar aye-aye taps on trees to find its lunch If you like rice then you`ll love Mauritania -- they munch rice a bunch Farmers out in Kenya, they raise cattle, goats, and hens And Burkina Faso`s called, "The Land of Upright Men" The cotton from Benin is in the clothes we wear to school There`s 40 words for camel in Somalia -- pretty cool! Hey! Bembeya Jazz comes from Guinea Baobab trees are stout, not skinny Ethiopians eat teff not pota-ter. Equatorial Guinea`s quite near the Equator In South Africa, two peace prize winners In Togo, they eat fufu for dinner Senegal`s got a pink lake, Mali`s got the blue man The folks in Nigeria spice food with cumin They do. It makes a tasty stew!

Trivia

• D.W. called this song a "food section"

Part Three:

54 things 54 Things to see and to explore In My Africa, whoa, whoa, whoa In My Africa, whoa, whoa, whoa The world`s biggest frog is found inside of Cameroon In Chad the long fish yawn and wake up when it rains in June Gorillas in Rwanda have a hooting sort of speech Go to Gabon to see an elephant walk on the beach Angola`s full of dino bones Museum in the ground Libya`s got those Roman ruins -- the coolest ruins around And Egypt has the pyramids, the Sphinx, and King Tut`s tomb Malawi`s got a town called Livingstonia, I presume In My Africa, whoa, whoa, whoa In My Africa, joy and beauty flow Tunisia`s known for a gorgeous gate and Swaziland makes glass From old recycled bottles that the boys and girls amass Lesotho folks don`t go outside without their fancy hats The artists in Sierra Leone weave really pretty mats The tunes they play in Niger, hey! They`re vital and alive The hip co of Liberia that style`s gonna thrive. Cape Verde`s got morna -- Man, I dig that swinging beat Guinea-Bissau goombay just makes me want to stomp my feet In My Africa, whoa, whoa, whoa In My Africa, it`s almost time to go My Africa`s an ageless land, I`m glad that you could see Its continent`s so full of life, you`re all my family And now we leave this loving place, its heartfelt family ties A warm embrace, a smiling face to bid a sweet goodbye To my Africa, Djibouti, hooray! To my Africa, Somalia Magic Africa, in the C.A.R. Lovely Africa, D.R.C. Magic Africa, Western Sahara In my Africa

Trivia

Midway through the episode, D.W., Cheik and the Brain walk across a zebra crossing-a reference to The Beatles, while saying, coincidently, that they'll never become pop stars