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Christopher Kudyahakudadirwe

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Poem "Mother Africa":
- written October 2008
- published November 21, 2008
- viewed 208 times

Other poems by Christopher Kudyahakudadirwe:

»A Prayer for Transformation«

»A Question of Beauty«

»A Sketch of Democracy«

»Amidst the Boring Brown«

»At The Golf Course ' 97«

»Crime and grime«

»Doomed Destiny«

»Dreaming In Limbo«

»Easy Crossing the Balustrade«

»Emerging Images«

»End of Time«

»Fading Hope«

»Friendship«

»From The Inside Looking In«

»Hopelessness«

»If you turn the pages...«

»In The Name Of Freedom«

»Legend Brother«

»Let it not be said then (an English sonnet)«

»Life's Order«

»Listen«

»Loneliness«

»Love, My Friends (an English sonnet)«

»More Blessings«

»Mothers, Women, Wives«

»No more«

»Of misery and Anguish«

»Old Man«

»On Saying Goodbye«

»Once Upon A time«

»Our Golden Girl«

»Political Condoms«

»Relationships«

»Sing Our Song«

»Street Child«

»Sweet Bondage«

»Take The Bull By The Horns«

»The 'Human Garbage'«

»The 'X' of Exile«

»The Brown Messiah«

»The Cold Day Unveils«

»The Knocking Woodpecker«

»The meaning of loneliness«

»The Poets Have Spoken«

»The Prison I'm Not In«

»The Way«

»Things I Miss In Exile«

»This Life - An Oxymoron«

»True Love«

»When in your eyes It looks«

»When the end beckons«

»Zany«

»Mother Africa«

by Christopher Kudyahakudadirwe

Arise, Africa arise!
Shine like the rising sun
Darkness has been vanguished
By your sons and daughters-
The quick and the late.
Arise, Africa arise!

Shake off shackles of ignorance
Africa, Mother Africa!
Shoo away tribalism and regionalism
Africa, My Africa!
Resist racism and irrationalism
Africa, Mother Africa!
Dwell on demands of democracy
And rise and shine
Africa, My Africa!

Arise, Africa arise!
You, the cradle of humanity
Rise and conquer neo-colonialism
You, the seedbed of civilisation;
Remember Timbuktu and Dzimbahwe
The pyramids and Carthage.
Arise, Africa arise!

Africa, Mother Africa!
Your resources are a source of envy
Mother Africa!
When all've exhausted theirs.
Arise, Mother Africa arise!
You, the jewel on the world's ear
Shine like the rising sun
Africa, Mother Africa!

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