
As a huge movie fan, I was surprised to hear about the lawsuit filed by Lebohang Morake, the composer behind the incredible music in the original Lion King! She’s suing comedian Learnmore Jonasi – who now goes by Learnmore Jonasi – because he apparently did a comedic mistranslation of the famous “Circle of Life” chant. Apparently, on his One54 Africa podcast, he first sings the chant correctly in Zulu, then gives a funny, but really simple, English version. I saw the clip, and honestly, the joke isn’t that wild – he translates the epic chant to basically just, “Look, a lion, oh my God!” The actual meaning, the official translation, is much more powerful: “All hail the king, we all bow in the presence of the king.” It’s wild to think something so iconic is at the center of a legal battle!