Love Poem: Mama Africa
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Written by: Richard Nnoli

Mama Africa

Mama Africa
She gave birth 
To the world
Ask the degon tribe 
In Mali
Or ask I ancestors 
Her origin is divine 
No wonder hypocrites 
Translate her divine 
Creation to manipulate
The innocent
Yet she stand all 
The test of time 

Mama Africa 
She gave light to the world 
Yet darkness never stop 
Existing in the shadows
Of evil doer's
What else do we want 
Cos all that cost us death 
She already provided 
For free to be alive
Only for the sake of our freedom
She gave light to the world

Mama Africa 
She was the mother 
Before the mother's 
Her birth was the form 
Of our human existence 
Before the existence of strange 
Being 
Who never died 
Or was crucified more than 
The curse of the bleeding mother 
Mama Africa 

Mama Africa 
Her existence is the prove of love 
She was not of wars 
But a creation of humanity
And within her arms 
Lies the heart of peace 
So why we chose ignorance
Wonder my soul
Why must we destroy 
What we can't create 
No man can create a soul 
Yet can let it bleed 
Just like our mother bleeds now 
Mama Africa