Wailing Africa Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGCB BHI BJKLB MN O PQ BQGQN

They invaded our landA
took away our wealth not leaving our identityB
Cannibals caught our able men mutilated and enslaved themC
Fathers and brothers chained like dogs and cagedD
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TheyE
Fondled the virgin nipplesF
Licked the fresh lips of our maidensG
Raped and inflicted themC
Little black children snatched from their helpless mothers and molested under White's atrocityB
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Chiefs and other powerful rulers rendered weak under White's supremacyB
The starved vampires bit and sucked the blood of Africa peopleH
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 ballsI
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They banished the movement of our ancestors and held them in captivityB
Our forefathers died for freedom yetJ
They are weeping and crying out loud beyond their gravesK
ForL
Black Africa has not resisted slaveryB
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Their system of education is miseducation for it has robbed and wiped away our beautiful culture out of usM
Their constitution human rights and foreign aid are embodiment of thefts brutalization land invasion colonialism and barbarismN
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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 ancestorsO
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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 repairP
For when destruction reach her it reaches her childrenQ
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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 beB
Let us turn to our mother without causing her extinctionQ
Let us allow memories to bring back memories of those we lost due to the fatality from the white onesG
A people who do not know their historical enemies are bound for extinctionQ
Children of Africa arise for freedomN

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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