ARISE AFRICA

TANZANIA AND NIGERIA COME TOGETHER, AS REGNARD BISHOZA & TANIMONURE RICHARDS ADEWALE CRY OUT:

ARISE: UNITED NATIONS OF AFRICA (UNA)

from the jungle of this neo-slavery,
smiling your past of awful story,
africa, arise!
let your name be newly rebirthed,
as one blood, one bond, one tongue
of a proud pen's joy of one strong song.

africa,
the hot sands sings your might;
the savannahs smile your beauty;
the beaches brim your sweetness
as excited waves of bliss on skins;
and the gallant forests,
the green uniformed forests,
as gallant guards over your riches,
stands a splendour of sky eyes.

africa,
hospitality is your language;
magnanimity is your tongue;
tranquillity is the speech of your lips
as colourful cultures of your being.

and your riches gleamed a grim
of hungry throats as long greediness
of white sight as dark heart invite,
a ravaging slavery of ruin robbers,
who raped and plundered
and tore much asunder,
your name as diaspora pieces
of scattered screams of unity;
yet, standing strong and tall,
yet, brimming thick and rich
as more evil hunger of unsatisfied belly.

and it comes, much worse again,
dark sight of white heart of pain,
tearing your blood and bond apart,
searing your heart with wars, genocide,
trading guns for gold, diamonds and oil,
an exchange of wealth for wailing woes
of masses' massive death, poverty untold.

it comes again, horror of corruption,
strangling life from lives of one nation,
as your pride of big brother wide,
gasping its stand as a leader, right.

africa, arise!
be free from white charms, dark;
be free from white attack, stark!
stop cutting your nose, bloody,
to spite your face, painful ugly;
come strong, that song, of one tongue
as a dirge of death on white joy
of a dismembered pieces of colonial triumph.

africa, arise!
let your story be newly rebirthed
as one blood, one bond, one tongue
of a proud pen's joy galore.

africa, arise!!!