<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=368457" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Call of Africa (Ethiopia in the 80s)</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">In this direst of landscapes<br>Where rib cages impart photogenic smiles<br>Where visible skull bones outnumber curly locks<br>Where the vengeful Ra and the boundless Amun<br>Collaborate to evaporate life from this bleakest of land<br>As the gravity of footmarks etch journeys <br>On the jagged clay soil masking voracious graveyards<br>As maidens with pots on their temples<br>Scavenge the sweat of the earth to taste the wines of the land<br>Where goats graze in groups and militants raze in troupes <br>Where Injera bread is broken by bones varnished with flesh<br>Where there are no banquets nor feasts but sacrifices to the gods<br>As human flesh is feasted by famine and disease<br>A dismal civilization where mosquito bites ooze with pus<br>As flies outnumber the gravel of the earth<br>Yet, hope floats like a feather of a dove soaring to the heavens<br>For a Celtic intervention, that the white man with their deep pockets<br>Will metamorphose graveyards to granaries<br>That the call of Africa will reverberate to the consciences of man<br>For a crusade of the heart, a journey down the Nile<br>To sustain a future, for the innocence of Africa</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Dilantha+Gunawardana">Dilantha Gunawardana</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=368457" data-title="The Call of Africa (Ethiopia in the 80s) de Dilantha Gunawardana" data-description="In this direst of landscapes Where rib cages impart photogenic smiles Where visible skull bones outnumber curly locks Where the vengeful Ra and the boundless Amun Collaborate to evaporate life from this bleakest of land As the gravity of footmarks..."></div> </div> </div>

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