It’s only in Africa, where black is beauty
Yet many want to be white
Men are the movers and shakers
Mannacled by traditions;
And women are sweet n’ subservient
Dance to the tunes of fife
For the glory of their black beasts.
It’s only in Africa
Kola nuts and shinups are bread and wine
And libations are poured for ancestors
Spirits prowl homes in the night
And sacrifices appease them;
Peace prevails when they dine and wine
On flesh and blood of humans
Practices condemned by the white man.
It’s only in Africa
People are rich in primitive energy
And tourist attractions to the whites;
Ways of her people are best
Yet barbaric to those whom West is home
Wear bikinis in the streets
Private rooms are Muliru Gardens
And swap their wives and husbands
To live the Western lifestyles.
It’s only in Africa,
Religion is uncouth, civilization a million miles away
Europeans promise a white heaven in black home
And folk songs are blues and R&Bs;
Our dances and nyatiti are salsa, ballet and piano
Story times are movies and discos
And God of our fathers has a son we must worship!
It’s only in Africa
Freedom fighters are terrorists
Warriors are rebels
Bows, arrows and spears are AK47s
And wars are fought from America;
With drones and intercontinental missiles
Shaka Zulu and Oloibon are war criminals
Taken to the ICC for crimes against their people.
It’s only in Africa
Al Qaeda is Boko Haram
And Al Shabaab want to go to Alaska;
Forests of Congo are Vietnam
And Lord’s Resistance Army is Taliban
Nelson Mandela is now a saint
Jomo Kenyatta the founding father of the nation
Colonel Muammar Gaddafi is Martin Luther King, Jr.
The visionary eye of the United States of Africa.
It’s only in Africa
Coup de’ tats seize power
The warlords become presidents
Who become terrorists with time
And are hunted down by the international community
Killed by intensive NATO air strikes
Die in culverts, or caged like animals
And burried under the ruins of the cities they once built.
Copyright(c)2012.
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Well done.
Its not only in Africa sha
@kaycee… thanks, when you look at what our once great continent you wonder what the heck happened….
It is only in Africa that our young men and women want to bear stone and cold….It is only in Africa.
Again the identity issue is brought to fore in this poem.Beautiful craft I must say.Thank you for sharing.
@sambright…. you are a great reader, keep it up… u have seen through the lines that our moral, cultural and spiritual fabric has disintegrated in to an amorphous shape… we need to get back to the ways of our people and get our identity back
@elovepoetry … true to the reality…
Really??