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Africa


What has got into our heads no one values their culture nowadays nor even know who really they are let me remind you again you are the Africans again and again I stand on top of a mountain I wonder around I look into Africa Eish so painful because I will see the sunsets the mothers are not at there rest they roam around the village looking for food to feed The Young Ones what about fathers this time you will be double minded about what's going on just look the little gangsters are searching them as if they owe them something oh the sun rises again look at the women from the rivers to get water and Men to the farm with axes on their shoulders when will they rest my fellow ones but don't be disturbed because that's Africa we dance singing our traditional songs we moved our pots by hand we Plough at the field we herd cattle to the greener pastures we Are Who We Are and we define who we are but to see nowadays it's a luck to see people doing what they're supposed to do today I will remind everyone who they are because it seems they forget who they are Before the Dawn we are the proudly Africans let's say it together as one continent we are Africans
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