An Arabic-African name that means “she who is intelligent or she who reasons.”
WORKSONGS
In Africa, work songs were traditional a cappella songs that people sang while they worked. In the United States, however, work songs became the kind of song that enslaved Africans (we don’t use the “slave” label to identify a person) sang to make the burden of being enslaved a little easier to bare. The genre is also known as “prison songs.”