Museum of Human History
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This is a poem about Tanzania. The world’s earliest human skull was found in the Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania (line 6). It shares its National Anthem with South Africa and Zimbabwe (lines 7 & 8). Tanzania is as a result of the unifying government of Tanganyika and Zanzibar (line 9). It is the home to coconut crab (line 10). The Ngorongoro crater (line 11). Mount Kilimanjaro and Lake Tanganyika (line 12). Lake Victoria and Lake Tanganyika (line 13). The Mpingo trees (line 15). Tanzania is a poor country (line 17).
A site of nature’s appreciation
in wildlife and physical geographic beauty
blessed with a set of spoken identity
having over a hundred and twenty limbs
of which the Bantu stretches the longest of them all.
It is the creator’s Museum of human history;
its song of natural pride and general patriotism
is unbelievably shared with two of its neighbours
as its existence feeds on a unifying regional government.
Habitat to the globe’s largest and most delicious crab,
preserving the world’s largest and intact volcanic caldera,
a site for its continent’s highest and lowest points
and the continent’s largest and deepest lakes.
A major African contributor to the allied forces of world war two
and prides in the most expensive hardwood in the world.
With such a wealthy history and enviable reputation,
its still stuck in the major challenge weighing on the dark continent.
Copyright © Funom Makama | Year Posted 2015
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