I Have A Dream Of An Africa Poem by LLM Mbatha

I Have A Dream Of An Africa

Rating: 5.0


I have a dream of an Africa
A united Africa!
Self sustaining and self reliant
Able to produce
Anything out of nothing
And trade within her-self
And with the world at large
A proud Africa
Of a civilizing people
Like our Egyptian, and
Olmec ancestors…
I dream of an Africa that
Patrice Lumumba died for
Kwame Nkrumah stood up for
Nelson Mandela paid dearly for
An Africa of Haile Selasie I
An Africa of GIANTS
Where men are great, proud and dignified
An Africa of Cleopatra, Maqeda, Nzingha and Nyamazana
An Africa without genocide, starvation, or disease
An Africa, without dictators!
A free Africa
Taking on the driver’s seat
Teaching without enslaving-
To show the world it’s possible!
No refugees because
All the Children belong!
An Africa, a Mother Land
Where an elephant
Feeds from the Elephant Tree
And the gorilla roams free
And the lion goes to hunt
If he wants
Because God loved him to!
An Africa that
Bhambatha (ka Mancinza)
Sobukwe (Robert)
Fanon (Frantz)
Biko (Steve)
X (Malcolm)
Garvey (Marcus)
And Douglas (Frederick)
Would look at and smile about
I have a dream of an Africa
But from this one, I shall not wake
Because I dream standing up
My eyes looking out
My arms open wide
To the ones, mad enough, to dream the same-

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Emmanuel Onyekachi 30 April 2018

Thanks this is wonderful it can help me now god bless you I feel the impart in my life

0 0 Reply
Ceaser 15 February 2018

This is wonderful. May we reach this hoped day, soon

0 0 Reply
Qhelani Ndhlovu 23 December 2007

I admire your pride and passion -power to the people

1 0 Reply
Chinga Dera 18 May 2007

I am enamored by your passion.

1 0 Reply
READ THIS POEM IN OTHER LANGUAGES
Close
Error Success