Africa Poem by Phillip Nine Mafunga

Toiling through the dark past
Wars of slavery and imperial conquest
420 years of lost dignity and self-worth
Pillaged of her wealth and citizenry
Ubiquitous poverty and disease is now her day to day story
Today Africa bleeds from her wounds, as we say

Africa bled and the world was nourished
Africa bled America was built
Africa bled and her herbs cured the West
Africa bled and our kingdoms vanished
Africa bled and our morals decayed
Africa bled her children to beg for livelihoods

Those of fair skin have animalized your children
The leadership is complicit in the crimes against your dear seed
Africa my land; my blood and my breath
Just as they did with the Arabs and Europeans our leaders are selling us again
This time your wealth has pillaged by those from the land of the rising sun
However, we will fight them; not again shall we watch, not anymore.

PHILLIP NINE MAFUNGA
26 April 2020