Wailing Africa Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGCB BHI BJKLB MN O PQ BQGQNThey invaded our land | A |
took away our wealth not leaving our identity | B |
Cannibals caught our able men mutilated and enslaved them | C |
Fathers and brothers chained like dogs and caged | D |
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They | E |
Fondled the virgin nipples | F |
Licked the fresh lips of our maidens | G |
Raped and inflicted them | C |
Little black children snatched from their helpless mothers and molested under White's atrocity | B |
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Chiefs and other powerful rulers rendered weak under White's supremacy | B |
The starved vampires bit and sucked the blood of Africa people | H |
With inhumanity butchered our wise men and spilt their blood on the faces of the land and left tears of blood to flow from our weak eye balls | I |
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They banished the movement of our ancestors and held them in captivity | B |
Our forefathers died for freedom yet | J |
They are weeping and crying out loud beyond their graves | K |
For | L |
Black Africa has not resisted slavery | B |
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Their system of education is miseducation for it has robbed and wiped away our beautiful culture out of us | M |
Their constitution human rights and foreign aid are embodiment of thefts brutalization land invasion colonialism and barbarism | N |
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Children of Africa have been imprisoned in the culture and life style of their historical enemies and have betrayed the loyalty of our ancestors | O |
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People of Africa Why still use your strength and wisdom for the enrichment of a selfish land in the name of hospitality Why betray the blood that poured from the white palm of the anthrophagus just for self happiness Why bury mother Africa alive her heart is broken beyond repair | P |
For when destruction reach her it reaches her children | Q |
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Children of Africa listen to the voice of our mother in the wings of the wind weeping and yelling warnings to her son's and daughters shouting thunderously that the white folk is not our friend and will never be | B |
Let us turn to our mother without causing her extinction | Q |
Let us allow memories to bring back memories of those we lost due to the fatality from the white ones | G |
A people who do not know their historical enemies are bound for extinction | Q |
Children of Africa arise for freedom | N |
Namawu Ali
Poet's note: This poem was written on the 13th day of May 2021. And it is dedicated to Africa people.the feeling expressed here is that Africa is loosing it's identity and feels inferior yet they are superior
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