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FEEL AFRICA Silence! Silence Africa! One can hardly get Africa to be silent; Africa habours a pulsating bubble. Everyone in Africa bounces to rhythm resilient. Africa, like Zambia, or Zambia, like Africa; Dear ones, whichever comes first Swells with energy in the sun! You see not the pulse; You feel every ounce. Feel it now! Woo! Woo! Is it fun or funny? Africa loves to dance. The continent is one huge drum; One complete dance! They work hard too. Mothers and daughters, Fathers and sons; Mothers-in-law and daughters-in-law Of Africa work hard They fetch water; they collect wood. They pound corn; they cook their food. In all their creation, People of Africa have one ingredient; SONG! You hear them sing while pounding corn. Phew! Phew! Wow! At funerals we sing and dance, At weddings, even more song and dance. Nothing has ever stopped Africa from dancing; Yes! Even the tragedies we’ve known; The genocides and ethnic cleansings, in the heart of the continent. Apartheid in the Cape of Good Hope; Starvation, hunger, war; Famines, droughts and floods In the great lakes and the horn of Africa! We have mourned; We have questioned! Mmmh! Courage! Courage is what kept us alive. We felt like throwing it away; Accepting defeatist tendencies; Choose revenge; and hurt; Not with Africa. We have come out reassured. We have emerged tested in fire; More finer and stronger than before We can afford to pray! We are like lions; the pride of the universe. Our pride lies in our landscapes; the mountains And the valleys; the plateaus and the savannahs. Free flowing rivers, Connect us with worlds near and far. We accommodate strangers as our rivers instruct. Strangers of the Indian and Atlantic Oceans; The seas and lakes! They brought the world to us as they did bring us to the world; the Zambezi, the Nile and the Congo. They have made us larger than we have ever been. We can join in the songs and dances of others As they can join ours too. Come join us; feel at home! Feel Africa! One Zambia, my dear one; The little star of copper. You shine deep in the heart of the continent; Warming the cold and frightened neighbours! The blessing you are is the blessing you offer. You exemplify unity in multiplicity, Of languages and ethnicity; Be not afraid copper star. Shine as bright as you do; Only warmer! All rights reserved.
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