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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=571717" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Shadows In An African Jungle.</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">You say I walk faster than my shadow<br>And why not<br>There are too many shadows in Africa<br>Gloom, defeat, despair<br>All are in me<br>But I must transcend them<br>I must be what I must.<br>To the African jungle<br>White enslavers came with gun powder<br>To shoot me down if I ran<br>Like a monkey.<br>I was to go with them in chains<br>To the Americas.<br>I was to work their farms<br>I was to die if I fell sick.<br>The row-row water turned my belly<br>In big ocean-going vessels.<br>I was told to hush hush<br>Even when I would cry aloud.<br>When I got to America<br>They changed my name<br>Onyenachia is too long<br>You must bear Samuel.<br>No problem.<br>They give me a spade and<br>I begin to swot<br>Dig in <br>Dig out<br>Oops - are you tired already? <br>You black man silly - <br>Crack of the whip<br>And I begin to swot again<br>Dig in <br>Dig out<br>Work till dusk.<br>I pray<br>God I am sick of this<br>I need you to save me.<br>And he does.<br>The white man does no work<br>But soon he is tired of keeping me<br>Working for him<br>So he orders me to leave.<br>I rejoice<br>And return to the dark jungle.<br>To my chagrin<br>The shadows are still there<br>Gloom, defeat, despair<br>All are still in me<br>But the faces of my brothers are changed<br>They do not recall me.<br>Hello? <br>Even my language is strange<br>I plead<br>Shriek<br>Persuade<br>Coax<br>They cannot understand me<br>I am sick again<br>Not with row-row water<br>But with aloneness<br>I am sick sick sick of it<br>I pray<br>God help me<br>And he does.<br>Soon I must return to America<br>But not as a slave<br>Not as Samuel<br>But as Onyenachia again<br>A free man<br>Onyenachia Munachim.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Samuel+Nze">Samuel Nze</a><div class=q>
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And why not
There are too many shadows in Africa
Gloom, defeat, despair
All are in me
But I must transcend them
I must be what I must.
To the African jungle
White enslavers came with gun powder
To shoot me down..."></div>
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