A BYGONE LIVING AFRICA

A BYGONE LIVING AFRICA

Timeless tribal primordial Africa
People sight the people of Africa
Masai, Zulu, Dogon of Africa
Hot, dusty with rolling grasslands
Huge herds of animals, stocky humans.

Cold and steamy with cosmopolitans
Eating naturally, starving and staying
Warring and emigrating from deserts
Jungles, highlands, savannahs dwell
Music and rhythm, deep in their souls.

Game meat is eaten without flinching
Extremely enjoying and adoring
African writers and intellectuals
Mouthpieces of African wallowing
Achebe, Okigbo, Ngugi, Maya, Soyinka.

Liberalism is impeccable, native rulers
Fell in love with you, benevolent Africa
Thrusting into your warm virgin forests
You're a man wearing a bush jacket
Disappearing off into the sunset.

Africa of the heroic warriors
Africa of loyal servants and diviners
Africa of the ancient wise men
Living in hermitic splendours
Heaving energetic offsprings.