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 </div><p></p><figure id="attachment_3201" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-3201" style="width: 395px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="http://wordsrhymesandrhythm.wordpress.com/2013/01/15/forge-ahead/our-sons-kill-africa/#main" rel="attachment wp-att-3201"><img class=" wp-image-3201 " title="Our Sons Kill Africa" alt="Our Sons Kill Africa" src="http://poetry.wrr.ng/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/our-sons-kill-africa.jpg" width="395" height="295" loading="lazy"></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-3201" class="wp-caption-text">www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry <strong>[Our Sons Kill Africa]</strong></figcaption></figure>Dear Bana,
<p>There is no justice in this world as proven by how late I received your missive.<br>
This happened almost 10 years later and I am not being defensive.<br>
The greed in the society we lived in had proven divisive.<br>
I tried to look for you Bana, when they came to question me, I was ever evasive.<br>
I tried to find connections that you had on the Merchant Navy but they proved elusive.<br>
Even the report I got from the prostitute from St Pauli was inconclusive.</p>
<p>I never heard of your stint as a clerk in the Ministry of Defense.<br>
Thank God I did not because I would have seriously taken offence.<br>
I knew the kind of person you were and you always spoke your two cents.<br>
Your rage at the impunity in our government would never condense.<br>
I would have enjoyed every moment while waiting for the battle of wits to commence.<br>
As I laughed hysterically as your words built wisdom walls around them at their expense.</p>
<p>I find it amusing that you referred to yourself as a robber, a bandit or anything else you deemed fit.<br>
I always considered you my own kind of Robin Hood, stealing knowledge from those who didn’t have use for it, my own Divine Bandit.<br>
It was always scary for me. When I heard of your experiences with the police, I prayed that you don’t get hit.<br>
I asked for help from the White Jesus and with my faith wavering I also turned to our fore fathers and for them an altar lit.<br>
It’s a shame that considering how far I travelled on the run from the police that we never did meet.<br>
And tears well up in my eyes as by your graveside, I hunch my back and there sit.</p>
<p>I grieve for the fact that you thought that you had to pay a price.<br>
You never hurt no one and being too idealistic would have been your only vice.<br>
They never knew that you and your friends were no richer than church mice.<br>
And your only plan for the national cake was to make sure that everyone got a slice.<br>
We were not horses to be content with imported or rather donated brown rice.<br>
We had lost the game long before it started as they had fixed the dice.</p>
<p>You must remember how we used to laze about, but with the whole police force after me, I have grown limber.<br>
After five years trying to be the game changer, I moved to the lovable country where they call the brave lion, Simba.<br>
They did try to follow me there but they were a hospitable people and I will never stop wishing this was the same for you, Sazan and Jimba.<br>
No one will ever sing songs of praise for the three of you as they will never find the right timbre.<br>
On golden oaks they crucified their heroes without considering the price of timber.<br>
Clearly the journey to the top of Mount Everest remains unbeknownst to no one else but the climber.</p>
<p>We live in a continent where almost everyone is dark skinned if not charcoal black.<br>
Yet as you pointed out, we still associate everything bad with the color which shows that in wisdom we surely do lack.<br>
I could easily see how all these combined could be the damned molting straw that broke the camel’s back.<br>
And despite the childishness of this statement, we really do suck!!<br>
Bana, my tears flow thicker than blood as the fact sinks in that your epitaph will only be immortalized in your letter but never as a graveside plaque.<br>
I was deemed an enemy of the state and even in this foreign country, of me they still keep track.</p>
<p>I would love to have you smile from the other side of the grave, but Bana I have no children.<br>
This was my own choice so please my dear do not label me a villain.<br>
I looked at our continent, how our sons slit the throats of our daughters and mothers like chicken.<br>
In their eyes full of anger and malice, I saw a true evil hidden.<br>
I on my own had tried to talk to the few who would dare listen.<br>
But as their evil brothers scrambled for their attention, I, being ignored was a given.</p>
<p>Do not be surprised when I tell you that what I speak of now has nothing to with our country.<br>
It has become evident that our country folk are not the only ones who are hungry.<br>
The hunger for justice has crossed borders to the rest of the African colony.<br>
However, their definition of justice has filled the rivers with blood and as a punishment the Almighty has unleashed global warming and now our continent has become painfully sultry.<br>
At the altar of their sacrifice, the political elite have thrown in their jibes, hooliganism, all and sundry.<br>
My knees buckle at this but on my feet I have to die for the human community.</p>
<p>Bana, forgive me for the scenes that I have recounted.<br>
I know you loved me despite the fact that you left me for all these moons and harvests that I have counted.<br>
There comes a time…..you used to say……wait……..that was someone else on whose charred memory this phrase is mounted.<br>
Nevertheless, I do believe that for all I have accounted.<br>
I hope I am not a disappointment for what I have amounted.<br>
In all this pain, hurt, stupidity, black self hate, the word LOVE has surmounted.</p>
<p>Four days after I got this letter.<br>
I vowed to make a life better.<br>
Notwithstanding my own, so I went to a children’s shelter.<br>
I adopted the most adorable twins who make me smile as they stutter.<br>
I could not change the world so I changed the person I had put on a tether.<br>
In this world or the next, Bana, we will always be together.</p>
<p>Our sons, our leaders kill Africa.</p>
<p>Forever loving you,<br>
Zole.</p>
<p style="text-align:right;">Written by: <strong><a href="https://www.facebook.com/TheDivineBandit" target="_blank">Edwin Thedivinebandit Mukabi</a></strong><br>
Edited by: <strong>Kukogho Iruesiri Samson</strong></p>
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