There is Always Another Story in Africa

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They say:
 





In Africa
Spiders crawl high
Honest men, dragged down
Leaders’ tongues drool lies
Man must know man to succeed
Merit dies; 'drop brown envelope abeg.'

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In Africa
Riches are trampled on the streets
Papers, cans, nylons, litter in death
And curl together in decay
Till mosquito’s eat away our homes

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In Africa
We seek White Man’s aid
Proclaiming, ‘it’s free, take it all.’
Oga, awof dey run belle 
 (greed causes untold pain)

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In Africa
Forget the price of freedom
Love us, feed us
True love empowers, not just aids

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In Africa
The lands are alive with abundance
Yet land livers die in poverty

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In Africa
The gun power cuts off man’s humanity
We point bullets at victims
to save the heads of tormentors

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I say:

 In Africa
Sad stories burden we


Yet
In Africa
other stories abound

 
Stories
Of selfless affection

A mother holds her child
till death bombs them apart

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Men ravaging with hunger for better
Dig, sow, till their trees hang high
And leaves rise above Africa’s lands

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Protest riders
never back down
Placards of freedom, placards of hope

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Resilient Africa
Let not the single stories overwhelm you
Look deep beyond them
For ingenious tales
Like William Kamkwamba's

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Till the ground, Africa
Work your rounds
Make Africa Stand
Free from beggary

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 Africa,  freedom will only come from within ...



 














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