Chanda Nsofu Poems

Africa is indeed a dark continent
We have talents but we don't see them
We have a fertile land but we don't see it
We have oil but we don't see it
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The poor have no choice
Poverty denies them the right to choose
It makes decisions for them
like a dictator makes decisions for a country
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Poverty makes the poor voiceless
It muffles their mouths
like a kidnapper muffles
the mouth of his victim
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We are not civil servants
We are civil slaves
Servants work
and get paid
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Iam an eagle among chickens
No matter what you do to me
I will always fly high up in the sky
Even if you pluck my feathers off
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Unemployment is a deadly disease
caused by the virus called poverty
Once it infects you
It keeps you poor
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Bail me out
Bail me out
I am sinking in a quicksand of debts
Bail me out
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Wake up rastaman
The enemy is no longer the white man
It is the nations who practice protectionism
Wake up rastaman
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Going back, going back
Africa you going back
Going back to ancient times
Slavery was abolished but now it is alive
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If you do not want
to get sexually transmitted infections
condomize correctly and consistantly
If you do not want
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