When We Were Black
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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