Yes We Can – In other languages

While watching the Democratic National convention, and twittering with other citizens of the world, we started translating the phrase ‘Yes We Can’ to other languages. Here are the translations we gathered.

Ndiyo tunaweza’ – swahili

DNA of Soulfege
In Ga “Ehh, wo ba nye!”
in Akwapim Twi “Yiu, ye be Tumi!” en Anglais: YES WE CAN!

Kaysha
french:”Oui nous pouvons” lingala:”e, to koki” portuguese:”sim podemos”

Kui/MJY/MamaJunkyard
‘we fit do am’ -Pidgin English for Yes We Can. The ‘t’ is silent.

There are 2 t-shirt designs that my twitter friends and designers came up with…
Kaysha designed this

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and the venerable David Kobia designed this one.

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click on the respective images to buy the t-shirts. I recommend wearing both, just because you can :-)

Please chime in comments with more translations of ‘Yes We Can’ in whatever language you speak.

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15 Responses to “Yes We Can – In other languages”

Guessaurus August 28th, 2008 at 10:25 pm

My sister made me DVR the whole thing – then we sat through it – live. I believe that the McCain camp have their work cut out for them – and I am not talking as a democrat/black/Kenyan. It really was riveting.
I should get one of those Tees for the noisemaker in the house – he needs something to chew on for a while.
Extending Hi’s to Kui and you and all :D

Kaushal August 28th, 2008 at 10:43 pm

@afromusing – I think you have much to add to this list http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/kevinvincent/CjTS

lova August 29th, 2008 at 8:30 am

“Vitatsika io” in Malagasy :) . Kudos to the designers for the well thought-out shirts.

filing August 29th, 2008 at 11:01 am

Iesu ue kanu.

Peter Njenga September 1st, 2008 at 2:49 am

Niguo nitukuhota

or

ii notuhote

This is in Kikuyu.

Image2Markup September 2nd, 2008 at 2:52 pm

Možemo! – In Croatian :)

Anonymous October 27th, 2008 at 12:13 pm

Yes, Nu? – BARBADOS
Ya nu man! -Jamaica.

ErickF November 6th, 2008 at 1:48 am

Yes We Can in Tagalog: “Oo, kaya natin!”

redzola November 7th, 2008 at 1:56 pm

“Hee dadima!” – In Taita

Deanna November 15th, 2008 at 11:21 pm

Sim, nos podemos (portuguese)

J. Blauw November 18th, 2008 at 10:15 am

in dutch, you could say- “ja wij kunnen”

sbs başvuruları November 23rd, 2008 at 4:09 pm

Yes We Can “Evet yapabiliriz” in turkish.

Anonymous January 20th, 2009 at 6:53 pm

si se puede (spanish)

Vegard January 26th, 2009 at 12:38 pm

Ja me kan! This is in Norwegian…

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