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We were black and beautiful But now we black and blank They came all the way from the west To our precious land AFRICA Look now we are the worse . We were black and rich We had everything we needed Skills, knowledge and wealth They spent years in the sea Coming to see us in our land Yes! coming to steal from us , What was ours! . We needed them not in our land We needed them not in our lives We had never invited them We had everything we needed They had nothing when they arrived But now they have everything It is us who have nothing . Yes, everything they have is everything we us to have By instilling fear to our minds and hearts They made us to bow to them They made us to believe their lies With what they call civilization , They made us abandoned what was ours They made us to forget what define us, our identity “bangamasela” , that how I define them. They stole from us They are still stealing from us Look, they take our gold everyday And when they return it They sell it to us in thousands Selling to us what is ours . When we were black and proud of it, Everything was well The moment we lost pride in being ourselves That was the moment we lost everything With the so called education, they stole our minds They made us think we were inferior They made us to hate what was ours They made us to dislike ourselves . Yes, we were black and proud We were black and beautiful We were black and rich And everything was harmonious in AFRICA Like Mugabe , let rise up ma-Africa amahle Let fight for what belong to us ! Let us reclaim our pride Like Thabo Mbeki, asisho singesabi …..we are Africans Njengo tata uMadiba asiyilwe singaphethe zikhali Now that we have freedom, let fight for liberation For freedom is not liberation And freedom is half of what we wanted . Freedom has limits But liberation will free us with no limits We are blacks and we are in Africa Our Africa So we wants no limits
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