Tribes people either fled into the interior, attempted farming for themselves and were driven off the land, or were enslaved by the new administrators.
His lyrics are quite often heart-wrenching, telling stories of people in insufferable pain, suffering implacable fates, and of love powerful enough to enslave a man.
The plunderers (shabbaye) will spread over the earth, in the valleys and on mountain tops, and they will enslave women, children and men, old and young....
