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by Samori Sombel Sy | |
Published on: Sep 26, 2005 | |
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Type: Poetry | |
https://www.tigweb.org/express/panorama/article.html?ContentID=6265 | |
We are all hear for a particular path So it doesn’t take a scientist to know we are part of the math Hope we understand before it’s too late That we are the present that will become the future that our people await This is our fight to be of use Make the prime news with headlines saying we stopped the abuse Tell the politicians that hold back Their bank accounts full of ours will be emptied because the safe will crack Foreign countries that eat our fish Who be that rich sail away from our once prosper coast that is my wish Believe in our power to bring Up the Sahara dessert life like it once was green all year around spring In a place that we call home Is the civilization that built the pyramids so much of it is credited to Rome? We are the new born power Bringing hope to a decade of resistance from man that came to devour Who can mother Africa count on? If this generation that has the chance to end poverty does not come along « return. |