<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=552315" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Father Africa</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Father Africa! At a token ignorance, <br>You have given your inheritance: <br>To strangers you gave amuch<br>White loonies who do not eat in our dish.<br>Behold, with some sham laughter; <br>They transacted for few daughter; <br>They bring clothes and rum and guns<br>To shackle away your sons.<br>Father Africa, foolish you! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Lo! See Mama Africa cry<br>Her hapless tears undry<br>On her black beautiful, dark dimples<br>Oh Africa, chaos ripples.<br>See your sons brutally unfair<br>Taking hostage His own kin at warfare, <br>Selling them at ludicrous token<br>Oh Africa, your woes betoken! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The sun rose in great grief<br>And shambled to rest in dumb disbelief, <br>The rivers pensive in their bank.<br>Our follies deserve on thank; <br>Africa sells her prime at twenty pounds, <br>Her offspring shackled to foreigngrounds<br>On a fettered peregrination to the coasts, <br>They await shipment for wicked hosts.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Father Africa, foolish you! <br>Has that token twenty pounds<br>Suffice the pandemic poverty that pounds<br>You and Your offspring on the head? <br>Those you sold - million tears shed<br>You caused them sorrowful spiritual to sing<br>They endlessly labour where trepidations ring, <br>They suffer severe discomfort - unfair! <br>They dwell in dejected despise and despair.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Joseph+Oladehinde+Ibikunle">Joseph Oladehinde Ibikunle</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=552315" data-title="Father Africa de Joseph Oladehinde Ibikunle" data-description="Father Africa! At a token ignorance, You have given your inheritance: To strangers you gave amuch White loonies who do not eat in our dish. Behold, with some sham laughter; They transacted for few daughter; They bring clothes and rum and guns ..."></div> </div> </div>

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