Africans Poems

MY BOY ASKED

My great grandfather sighed in heaven
As I told my son the story
As told by my father as he was told
About how wealthy his father was before them.

Daddy, he says, something is on my mind
You said great grandpa was rich and kind 
But he never went to school at all
How did he build a life so
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Categories: africans, 12th grade, abuse, africa,
Form: Free verse

Pan-Africanism

Like twins, we share markers of a common history,
Civilization, and knowledge; a call for unity.
The carcasses of slavery and the slave trade
Are lost in the dust. O black water days.
Colonization has been eaten by our sovereignty.

Our flag, we raise high in the sky.
The struggle for the unification of Africa,
The fight for the liberation of the
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Categories: africans, africa, confidence, courage, family,
Form: Free verse


THE LIES WE LIVE WITH

Free, we say
For we can loot
From our states' coffers
Just to fall prey of their offers

Free, we say
For we can divide ourselves
Through invisible ethnic lines
Evidently a theatre for their muse

Free, we say
For we deceive ourselves
That our leaders we select 
Do we know the inside of ballot boxes?

Free, we say
Yet in their pockets
We graze, their eternal puppets
What
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Categories: africans, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse

STAND UP WITH THE PROBLEMS OF MILLIONS OF AFRICANS

as some African 
young leaders 
are  standing up 
with the problems
of millions of Africans.
they know well  
about
the work they are doing ...
Africa's advocates 
who know 
the consequences 
of the dangerous tasks 
which they are  choosing ...
Just  to help their compatriots. 
they can be wiping out  
silently
at any moment 
by the  problems 
makers. 
Young leaders who saw
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Categories: africans, africa, imagery,
Form: Free verse

WHAT DO THEY BENEFIT TO KEEP THEIR TREASURES THERE

What do they  benefit to keep
their  treasures there? 
As seeing some Africans
passing through serious challenges 
which were made by some people 
who hate them secretly 
and remain silently 
One day 
you will be blamed. 
Few years back , 
I remember reminded 
some African politicians 
Who continued 
keeping  their treasures 
in some western banks
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Categories: africans, africa, imagery,
Form: Free verse


BEING ONE OF AFRICANS TOP VOICES

as decided to be one of africans top voices,  remember that enemies will always rise like flies.
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Categories: africans, africa, patriotic,
Form: Verse

Yesterday

What happened yesterday 
Can change  today. 
When a person understands
His" her" capacity 
He "she" can not see borders
To enter some world competitions 
Where racism and injustice
Are not principal choices. 

Power of beauty and wealth,  
Some  daughters of some poor in the Competition with some daughters 
Of some rich people.  
Yesterday when I saw you in
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Categories: africans, 12th grade, africa, america,
Form: Free verse

Absence

Africa is very rich continent in the World
But many Africans die daily in Mediterranean sea  
Sad to see how natural resources are robbing daily,  
Evaluating the economy of African countries
None  is closer to a poorest European Country
Complicating system which oparates to favour 
EU Countries,their partners and wreck Africa. 

February 25/2023
 A forms and words challenge  poetry
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Categories: africans, 12th grade, africa, education,
Form: Acrostic

William Branham, Prophet To South Africans -

I
Paul warned his "son" Timothy, On Guard
In the end time, many false prophets disguised
Even as angels from heaven, will tickle ears
And many will be led astray; Jesus is "too much"
To take, one in Adelaide told me:
The Bible takes you that much, "eyes" that see
Know the apple was really a "sexual act" in Genesis 1
Brennan (Branham,
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Categories: africans, betrayal, bible, conflict, integrity,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberAfricans Goliath Frog

goliath frog throws his tummy around
rainforest is where he is often found
snapping up shellfish blue
consuming littler frogs too
slurping up insects with nary a sound
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Categories: africans, 3rd grade, 4th grade,
Form: Rhyme

We Are Africans

Even with your electric guitar and your drums,
It cannot be compared to our skin made drums.
You still cherish the sound of our music and it value
Despite how hard you tried to make we live life as designed by you.

We are Africans and our history is not all about slavery, 
Yeah! It a dark side that
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Categories: africans, africa,
Form: ABC

Blackboy From a Lith Book of Tales For Kwakwekokou

BlackBoy 

- From A Lith Book Of Tales; For Kwakwekokou - 



Black boy Kokou 
Black boy kwakwekokou Ngiog'i 
Do know 
Your black is beautiful and 
Like me, you was never told
'The uniqueness of being Negroid.

Although being black is howbeit beautiful
We are the sole symbolism of everything evil.
Oh they know we are all kin;
Real rude boys
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Categories: africans, abuse, africa, allusion, black
Form: Heroic Couplet

The Africans of Old

THE AFRICANS OF OLD.




The Africans of old
At night, slept and of Africa 
For Africa they dreamt
Of a day to come 
When Africans will be free 
Uhuru Uhuru Uhuru
From every form of enslavement 
And oppressions. 

The Africans of old
In peace and harmony coexisted 
mpende jirani yako kama unavyojipenda
Oh they knew how to live 
For self and
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Categories: africans, africa, allusion, black love,
Form: Didactic

Premium MemberRemembering Four Centuries of Africans In America

Fields where the bondman’s toil
No more shall trench the soil,
Seem now to bask in a serener day;
The meadow-birds sing sweeter, and the airs 
Of heaven with more caressing softness play,
Welcoming man to liberty like theirs.
A glory clothes the land from sea to sea,
For the great land and all its coasts are free.
From “The Death of
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Categories: africans, anniversary, celebration, history, racism,
Form: Rhyme

Africa For Africans

Africa for Africans

Down the rivers of the east
the soothing wind blows in our minds
shaking our busy brains to rest
making worthwhile living in Africa
bare wind of our own making

Africa of the winkled hands
white teeth under shiny dark skin
gold hearts of marvellous flesh
many but just one
we are the soil on the ground

In the rivers life water flows
down
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Categories: africans, africa,
Form: Free verse

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