Africa O Africa!
Still slumbering away
When it’s already noon
Your children daily fleeing
To dance to other tunes
See all your promising fruits
Flying off to ripe another man’s land.
Africa O Africa!
How long shall your adult
Continue to be infants
Spoon fed by those who stole your glory
Manufactured into killing fantasies
So we would pay the prize of foolery?
Africa O Africa!
A strange thing has happened
You have given birth
To babies with teeth
Now they drill your blood
This blood screaming and wailing
With tears of vengeance.
Africa O Africa!
When the drum of war is beaten
They no longer rise to dance
The prize for the brave
Is now the certainty of grave
For the gods favour no more the strong
But the weak in conscience.
Africa O Africa!
Your neighbours love you not
They ask for more by giving
And if I raise up my fists in angst
My brother raises his fists
Descending they turn AK47s
Sent by the death merchants of Europe.
Africa O Africa!
Eating crumbs of flying time
See their ever roving satellite
Taking images of starving Somalians
See my eyes overflowing
With tears of generational woes
Africa O Africa!
Your once rich and boisterous life fields
Are turned into battle fields
Your able men turned specimens
Whenever the powers test their magic
In fratricidal bloody duels.
Africa O Africa!
Richer far more than gold
Poorer than a church rat
And those who dared not look on your face
Now daily spit on your head .
Africa O Africa!
Like a woman raped
By her own children
Who will appease the ancestors
And cleanse us of this abomination?
Copyright: Dumbiri Frank Eboh
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