Python Dance

after Odumegwu Ojukwu after Chinua Achebe after Christopher Okigbo after Dele Giwa after Kofi Awoonor after Kwame Nkrumah after Ngugi Wa Thiong'o after Nelson Mandela after Wole Soyinka after Leopold Senghor after Flora Nwapa I am part of this ancestry black struggle For Africa to be reckoned in the world not of ancient historical context of backwardness but of productivity I wasn't part of the python dance taken to the East against the voiceless. Our ancestral souls still beat louder The shrines of our forefathers are not destroyed by palms of westernisation We still have men of understanding Men whose hands are legs of fire We've told the boys that no youth returns to early grave again, never! This fashion of corruption is gone Every darkman rules for others to rule. No politician shall ride on a state car Whilst many travels on a trapped roads.Our python dance shall be for restructuring of Africa heritages not for killing our own blood for fun. This we pledged drinking from one cup Gathering firewood that would take us throughout the wet season of this storm Africa is our home and our hearts to protect and guide from purple aliens no more python dance to kill our own. Yours Poetically, ©John Chizoba Vincent