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<figure id="attachment_857" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-857" style="width: 275px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="http://poetry.wrr.ng/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/africa.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-857" title="O Africa!" src="http://poetry.wrr.ng/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/africa.jpg" alt="O Africa!" width="275" height="183" loading="lazy"></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-857" class="wp-caption-text">O Africa!</figcaption></figure>
<p>O Africa, can you hear me in Madagascar?<br>
It was the black scars that made me left Accra<br>
Passing through Dakar in my car.</p>
<p>I hope I’ll see the logo when I get to Togo<br>
But for now am in Congo.<br>
Ask Ovo, I bought muovo at Port-Novo<br>
And St. Louis at Port-Louis<br>
But before I arrived at Bissau, my beans got soured.</p>
<p>Through Abu, I met Jah in Abuja<br>
And stopped using Jazzz (Juju).<br>
This made me to start playing Jazz.</p>
<p>I took a trip to Tripoli where I went to poly<br>
But it didn’t make me holy<br>
It only made me a boxer in Botswana.</p>
<p>Do you want us to speak Patwah?<br>
Then, let’s go to Ethiopia near Somalia.<br>
I think if we gather at Uganda, we can go to Luanda,<br>
But if tomorrow you find yourself in Morocco<br>
Please stop by at Cairo and don’t forget to go to Bamako.</p>
<p>Am very sure Kaka has gone to Lusaka<br>
And by way I saw Simba in Zimbabwe.<br>
Ask Dan, you will be sued in Sudan or Djibouti<br>
If you are caught touching Jane’s Booty.</p>
<p>O Africa, let’s look at your map<br>
For we are not in Pluto;<br>
We are in Maputo going to Malabo<br>
And I believe we shall get to Malawi.</p>
<p>Can I buy gala in Kampala?<br>
That’s just a question.</p>
<p>Africa! Africa! Africa!<br>
How many times have I called You?<br>
Let together take charge in Chad<br>
For if truly you are Free,<br>
Then you will come to my Town at Cape-Town or Cape Verde.<br>
Tommy, mummy wants to see you at Sao Tome.</p>
<p>The last time I saw Ken,<br>
He was in Kenya with his wife Enya,<br>
So with his rover we drove to Monrovia through Cote d’Ivoire<br>
To see Victoria near Mauritania not too far from Tanzania.</p>
<p>Na so! When I went to Burkina Faso!<br>
I heard the moon in Cameroon comes out only at noon.</p>
<p>Is it Miami or Niamey?<br>
Is it Ligali or Kigali?<br>
Is it Switzerland or Swaziland?<br>
I don’t know,<br>
But When I get to the corner of the Creeks<br>
At Conakry I will make a decree<br>
Where we shall all read the Creed.</p>
<p>I am not shy to ask if there a King in Kinshasa?<br>
If there is, then there must be a Bond in Gabon(d).<br>
So from Gambia, I will go to Zambia<br>
And stop by at Namibia to see my dear lady, Lydia.</p>
<p>Ladies be warned,<br>
You can’t use Mascara in Asmara.</p>
<p>Before Unis traveled to Tunis<br>
She stopped at Banjul in June<br>
To buy some bangles in Bangui.</p>
<p>When we all get to Algiers, we shall all cheers<br>
Because at Burundi we were a bit moody.</p>
<p>We must not forget the oath we took at Lesotho<br>
That as Africans, it is up to us<br>
To remove the veil so that we will not<br>
Live in vain for blood flows in our veins.</p>
<p>The future of Africa is a picture<br>
Of a bright continent that you can see on the internet.<br>
A land of freedom where you are free and not dumb;<br>
To be able to speak like the talking drum;<br>
A land of a thousand hills of wonderful trees;<br>
A land of the sun city<br>
Where we can see the beautiful colors of diversity;<br>
A land of great culture<br>
Where we were once tortured<br>
And later nurtured which has made us matured.</p>
<p>Shouting aloud, I am the voice of peace;<br>
Sometimes I hear the gunshot of bullets<br>
And the thunderous uproar of bombs<br>
Dancing to the rhythmic drumbeats of war in Africa.<br>
But we should never listen<br>
Or dance to its deceptive tunes,<br>
For they seek to paint only the red color of blood<br>
On our White walls of love.</p>
<p>Wherever you are in Africa,<br>
You are always welcome home<br>
Because this is your motherland.<br>
Now, let us forget the past<br>
But lets not forget what it taught us.</p>
<p>Today, let me be plain<br>
We have gone through too much pain.<br>
Its time for us and our children to gain<br>
And dance in this new reign of abundance.</p>
<p>Now is the time to brace and embrace ourselves<br>
To be able to run this race<br>
So that by His grace in the end we will not be a disgrace.</p>
<p style="text-align:right;"><strong>meet the poet: <a id="js_5" href="https://www.facebook.com/alfred.m.offei">Alfred Marshal Offei</a></strong></p>
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