Africa my first

Africa the sacred
africa my beginning
beginning as the first words,
first steps and as first humans.


Africa as one and from one it began
as first homo sapiens
first human intelligence
first holy man
first religion
first music
first art and as men and woman we art
on our native land.

As spears passing through wind waves
our african heroes pass through time
as the sweet scents of aspiring love
from the the city of Abeokuta,
the man with many words
nelson mandela
shaka zulu
the iron women.

from our meandering streams of blood diamonds
and the meandering thoughts of mugabe
unataka nini yewe
wewe myenyewe
as african people we live and
ubuntu bethu kuphila nebantfu
Africa, africa my beginning
africa my first.