I have a dream of an Africa <br />A united Africa! <br />Self sustaining and self reliant <br />Able to produce <br />Anything out of nothing <br />And trade within her-self <br />And with the world at large <br />A proud Africa <br />Of a civilizing people <br />Like our Egyptian, and <br />Olmec ancestors… <br />I dream of an Africa that <br />Patrice Lumumba died for <br />Kwame Nkrumah stood up for <br />Nelson Mandela paid dearly for <br />An Africa of Haile Selasie I <br />An Africa of GIANTS <br />Where men are great, proud and dignified <br />An Africa of Cleopatra, Maqeda, Nzingha and Nyamazana <br />An Africa without genocide, starvation, or disease <br />An Africa, without dictators! <br />A free Africa <br />Taking on the driver’s seat <br />Teaching without enslaving- <br />To show the world it’s possible! <br />No refugees because <br />All the Children belong! <br />An Africa, a Mother Land <br />Where an elephant <br />Feeds from the Elephant Tree <br />And the gorilla roams free <br />And the lion goes to hunt <br />If he wants <br />Because God loved him to! <br />An Africa that <br />Bhambatha (ka Mancinza) <br />Sobukwe (Robert) <br />Fanon (Frantz) <br />Biko (Steve) <br />X (Malcolm) <br />Garvey (Marcus) <br />And Douglas (Frederick) <br />Would look at and smile about <br />I have a dream of an Africa <br />But from this one, I shall not wake <br />Because I dream standing up <br />My eyes looking out <br />My arms open wide <br />To the ones, mad enough, to dream the same-<br /><br />LLM Mbatha<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/i-have-a-dream-of-an-africa/
