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Scum of Nations

At times, go public spending
And twice, will the salaries of functionalism
While they fleece the public treasure
Easy-going, claim the subdued
At the profuse bronchitis of patriotism
At the mercy of poor care

Get up, come and join us will
The scum of nations
Countless like the grains
In the deep Oceans
And the stoical vastness of deserts
Where the annoying wind
All entangled in gigantic fuss
And it even that more awake
Stay the unwary, because of all this

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Uprise In Santo Domingo

From the European and taste of sugar
Depended the Caribbean riches
Produced by extensive manual work
Of  Africans enslaved
In colonial plantation economy regime
 
Amid the hard work
How fast the energy is exhausted,
And hanging over the slaves
The scarce supply in what sordid houses
Nor medical care they had! ...
 
Marrons
were gangs of runaway slaves
Hidden in the forest
Out of imperial control ...
 
Charismatic, was François Mackandal
First effective marron leader
Its people inspired with African traditions
United and established in such a way 
Secret organizations
Among the slaves of plantations
And six years of rebellion he caused
 
But oh, although he had been captured
And burned in fire
After his death, armed marrons persisted ...
 
 
It was a brutal conflict period
In the colony of Santo Domingo
Leading to total elimination
Of Slavery and the inevitable coming of Independence
Of Haiti as the first republic
Governed by afro-descent people

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Kwanza River

(Homage to the Kwanza River
 " Water mother " of Angola)


Largest and only Angolan
Art thou, O majestic Kwanza!

In the central highlands
We see thee rise in Mumbué
And 960 kilometers of undoubted majesty
To the north and west
Since the municipality of Chitembo, in Bié
Stretch out on the big curve design
Before the hug, so sweet, so strong
You give to the salt of the Atlantic

Largest and only Angolan
Art thou, O majestic kwanza!

With an enviable basin
For two hundred and fifty
Kilometers, you are navigable
From the mouth to the Dondo
Where the dams of Cambambe and Capanda
Render yourself patriotic reverence
By the megawatts of power

Largest and only Angolan
Art thou, O majestic Kwanza!

As well as to the national currency unit
In the two provinces, thy name this also:
At its northern margin, Kwanza Norte
And Kwanza Sul, on the opposite bank, equally
They pay more than deserved tribute

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Egypt

Luxor, oh Kharmack
Temples to Amon, Amon Ra
Pharaohs in sacred reverence
For both gods lifted
 
Along the majestic Nile
Through Upper Egypt
What an elite ... to stand quiet
There, on the Kings valley
At Tuntakamon progeny´s way
The Palace of Hatshepsut
In the Valley of the Queens
 
Majestic Horus and by Felucca
The Mausoleum of Agha Khan
Obelisk, still unfinished
And the pristine temple Philae
From Edfu to Aswan ...
 
The High Dam to retain
The nonalignment of Lake Nasser waters
The graffiti art, portraying the long story
Of the lives of all the Pharaohs
And the temples of Sobek, Horus and Khnum
In Kom Ombo
Fascinate the eyes of anyone

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Haiti

In Western hemisphere located
“The Pearl of the Antilles”
Thus, for all formerly called
Was due however, its natural beauty
For the Hispaniola Island
It is only a small western portion

With 2680 meters of altitude
Pic la selle stands up
And both the Atlantic and the Caribbean Sea
As that sentry, guarding the infinity
Of shipwrecked pieces of black suit history

Patriot and martyr, was his illustrious son
The slave Toussaint L'Ouverture
Reading and writing, also known
For later, the revolution to join
And with all others under the same allegiance
Of freedom, making the great foundation

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Zong

Cruelly full of slaves
The basement was used
Of Zong, the damn ship
Of the bloody transshipment

The coast of the tiny Island of São Tomé 
On the shores of West Africa
At full throttle, to the island of Jamaica
Zong, the damn ship
Began its surfing
And the total of thirty-three
Was the throng vassal
To the Atlantic coastlines abyss
Most cruel captain sent shoot
Was it not the outbreak deleterious
Willingly, then
To the sea, 
It fell down an angry ten!

With grilhtetas tied at the ankles
Oh God, how horrible and brutal
While the Atlantic, with its own eyes
Saw the deal man gave his equal!

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Until When

Until when
This life worthy of pity
Wretched and all full of melancholy
That returning to dust
Best would be! ...
 
Of a mute and anonymous face
I'm more a bottle number
To launch in the world statistics
As the gap between rich and poor
Behold me with existential distress!
 
Until when
This life out of the ordinary
Monotonous, without the needed salt
But what a strange taste
Is this that only I feel?
 
Very old and no reason for being
But what knock is that
As strong as cross
That this pain of suffering
Why only in me it never ceases?

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Kimpa Vita

On the grounds of Kongo dya Ntotila
Monte Kibango saw you born
O fearless daughter that quiet talks
Nganga Marinda of Mwana Kongo´s clan
In “Antonianism“ your belief was let known
To the dogmas of the Catholic faith, you were contrary
“Heretic!” - To death the clergy condemned thee 
On life, at the fire that burned much
Still, your goodbye was sincere
Now, in deep sleep
Crowned laurels, in eternal glory
Rest forgotten of the filthy settler

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Without Pain Or Joy

Without pain or joy
Long time since soul dislodged up 
From this body out of favor
And without own activity

Long time that old days
Condense mixed nostalgia
In thick dissatisfied droplets 
In such modern home

Without pain or joy
Long time that equal distribution
Of bread crumbs was one day
To all it took

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The Sun Out There

The sun outside
Shines shining
On the heights of its splendor
Shines shining
From the heights what a favor! ...

The sun outside
Shines shining
On the heights of its charm
Shines shining
From the heights shining so much

The sun outside
Shines shining
Over hills and valleys
Shines shining
Pouring its shreds over all evils

The sun outside
Shines shining
Over Africa and the world
Shines shining
Pouring its shreds over me bum