Monday, 30 May 2011

Mama Africa


Mama Africa
Look down and see the fates
Of your beautiful virgin daughters
See what has become of chastity
Thrown to the four winds

Mama Africa
The Whiteman brought us civilization
But civilization has its price
Morality is confined to history books
Practiced only by prudes

Oh Mama Africa
Weep for your daughters
Who have become breadwinners
For their fathers
And sell themselves for dollars

Mama Africa
Our hands are stained with blood
Your land is filled with blood
The blood of your daughters
But they erect mansions

Mama oh Mama
Will Africa ever be clean again?
Free from this hunger
This corruption
That makes your daughters forget their shame.

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