A Continent Half-Dead
Where can I find Africa alive?
Africans, a very sick population
language, diluted, truncated, lost
education, bedeviled, colored
economy, bed-ridden, in drips
democracy, without soul, spirit
industries, baseline and debased
agriculture, genetically modified
youth, foreign caricature beings
patriots, hidden agents of powers
mass media, devil’s delight
African essence, assimilated
Where can I find Africa alive?
all I see including me, I guess
is a bundle of alloyed humans
that lives in Africa but breathes
and lives in the West or the East
body in Africa, heart across seas
body in sick bay, mind kidnapped
that is social is not African
that is political is not African
that is economic is not African
that is cultural is not African
Remove all that is not African
and remain with naked Africa,
that is Africa, half alive, half dead!
Copyright © Solomon Ochwo-Oburu | Year Posted 2017
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