Teta Lando was one of the best and finest Mukongo artist from Northern Angola. This song evokes a deep underlying sense of identity of the Bakongos' experience and feeling derived from the period prior and post Angola's independence in 1975. The Bakongo were the first people to be subjugated by the Portuguese and the first to mobilize and launch a guerrilla warfare against the Portuguese colonisers in Angola. However, the Portuguese and the new Angolan authorities have always suspected, feared and resented the deep cultural and intellectual heritage of the Bakongos. Drawing from Kongo's past experience, Lando adapts a folk song in which a bird Ntoyo (eagle) have its wisdom always undermined and mocked by the others birds in the forest despite all its effort to wise them up about the impending danger of keeping alien birds dictate the their terms in our own land.

Lyrics

Eh eh eh, nkenda zingi ngina zau
Hmm nkenda zingi ngina zau
nuni ye nuni zivova kuandi
mono ntoyo vo mvova kaka
ngienda kuna ya wutilua
i mvovesuanga e yaya
ngienda kuna wutilua
i mvovesuanga yaya

Eh mbadi yaya
wiza wiza ka lukisanga ko, eh yaya
kingana bambuta ba tá kio,

Ntoyo kavovi ko...kasi mono vova mvova

Ehh nkenda zingi ngina zau
e yaya nkenda zingi ngina zau
nuni ye nuni zivova kuandi
mono ntoyo vo mvova kaka
ngienda kuna ya wutilua
i mvovesuanga e yaya
ngienda kuna ya wutilua
i mvovesuanga e yaya

Eh mbadi eh yaya
wiza wiza ka lukisanga ko, eh yaya
kingana bambuta ba tá kio

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