Toni kamau’s Blog

WHO OWNS AFRICA?

Who owns Africa?

A land once owned by those who worshiped it,

Once covered with fields ploughed with love,

The man came, saw, conquered and left behind

A generation of people who razed their own fields,

who created stone prisons and new memories;

Memories of lush homes, storied buildings in

towns that were built on land that once fed us all,

Land that once united us but now divides us.

Neither the towns nor the storied buildings belong to us,

We gave our pound of flesh for loans disguised as boons,

 to build these stone prisons run by a bunch of goons.

We traded in our treasures for these stone towns, stone prisons,

We hold them dearer than those who own them lock and key,

One day they will come to collect.

Who owns Africa?

NOTES:

Musings inspired by looking down at London Bridge and part of East

London over a year ago; from the highest point of the Monument.

Maybe it was standing at that height or fatigue from climbing the stairs 390 something stairs plus!

However I think there is some sense somewhere in between the ramblings.