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Out Of Africa Comes

Out of Africa comes...
The beautiful idea of ubuntu this
Forbidden philosophy of humaneness
That humanity so badly needs today
Out of Africa comes...
Malnutrition and hunger and disease
Children of Africa...
Why do you die
In your thousands everyday and you
Refuse to throw away the superstitions
That don't protect you?
Sure.Others have had their own dark ages
And their black death and they have done
Away with all those burning of witches and
Really cleaned up their acts
Africa you must open up to innovation you
Must be ready to accept the marvel of
Technology and invention it is absolutely
Wrong to live in fear and ignorance and
Let yourself be scarred away from experimenting
By the scare stories of the grandmothers
From others borrow what's good and progressive
Reject what's regressive and harmful and
Within yourself keep what's spiritually enlightening
In other words don't touch their drugs
And their guns and their bombs
In a nutshell you don't need your own bows and machetes
My brothers and sisters...
Africa is the bread basket of the world
Why is it then that you don't eat the food
That you produce and it is recycled from
The corners of the globe back to you and
It has lost it's nutritional value and
You have to buy it at inflated prices?
Out of Africa comes...
The music of the forest and the brooding
Silence of the Sahara and the Namib
Out of Africa comes...
The roar of the lion and the thunder
Of the of the smoke of the mountains
And the heartbeat of the drum
And the laughter of the jackal and the
Lure of the vast open spaces that fills
The heart with romantic notions and the
Spirit with the desire for adventure
Out of Africa comes...
The Amandebele and the Bahutu and the Fulani
And the Masai and the Mandingo...
They are the lords of the land and one day
They shall unite because the artificial
Borders that were imposed to control
Them will no longer divide them and they will
End their wars of mutual slaughter and be brothers
And sisters and they will throw away the yoke of
Money and they will go back to till the land they
Will wrench out of the hands of the foreign owned
Companies that destroy their environment and they
Shall be masters of their own destinies again for
That is their birthright and they need not apologize
From whom did the Greeks learn their philosophy
And will soebody please take Aesop where he was born?
Out of Africa comes...
The gold that the children of mother Africa dig deep
From the belly of the earth but they're never told
Who runs away with the profits...
Out of Africa comes the disputed origins of the pyramids
And somebody better explain fully and truthfully
Who invented mathematics and after they have slaughtered
Mubarak will the Egyptians do the right thing and give
Egypt back to the Kemetians the black owners of Egypt?
Out of Africa comes...
The joy of cultural diversity
Out of Africa comes...
The gift of song
Out of Africa comes...
The music that Africa gives
To the children of the world

poem by Ngaka Motaung
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