Beautiful continent by nature <br />Beautiful people by nature <br />Africans ebony skinned by nature <br />Now darkened by the extremity of nature <br />Africa rich in precious minerals by nature <br />Precious minerals got plundered <br />By the extremities of colonisation and decolonisation <br />Poor Africa now forsaken by its own people <br />Diaspora homecoming a dream deferred! <br /> <br />Unscathed Africa still stands proud to welcome the second rape <br />Asian assailants brought with them artificial cake <br />Paper cake not to be tasted in the presence of barter <br />African generosity gratified by the restoration of long lost pristine <br />Mother Africa’s bloom perturbed in the second take <br />This time by the selling of her soul to a prosperity pipedream <br /> <br />African diaspora forever hooked by the glory of artificiality in Europe’s magic wand <br />Dreamed of Africa stoicism’s erstwhile colonial hurt <br />Forever in the dream believe of the so-called Dark Africa <br />Africa forever in a pendulum state of cry and jubilation <br />Cry and jubilation, colonised and decolonised <br />Vice versa in the whirlwind of build and destruction <br /> <br />How long will Africa stand dislocated? <br />How long will Africa fail to see its own reflection in the mirror of reality? <br />How long will Africans stop begging standing on the rock of gold? <br />How long will Africans stop looking over the seas in want of the wonders of artificiality? <br />How long will the diaspora look over the seas in dislike of the African nature’s wonder? <br />How long will the diaspora remain satiated with the crumbs of pseud-gold from the masters’ table? <br />How long, ………….. How long Africa! <br /> N Nkuna,21 August 2012<br /><br />Niki Nicholas Nkuna<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/africa-76/
