MIND PHILOSOPHY

 I’ve studied the blue print of Africa’s forgotten and unsung revolutionaries

I spark conscious thoughts of revolutionary ideology amongst my contemporaries

Always setting in motion a train of thoughts that reawakens heroic tendencies

Self liberating words interwoven explicitly to enlighten minds in my sentences

Blowing off dust settled on facts as I’ve searched deep quoting from lost diaries

Of war veterans, true Pan African heroes revealing tales of the past centuries



In my mind voyages I’ve been to the era of noble men who stood for truth & honesty

Discipline was a norm and everybody was treated equal without any sort of bigotry

Uprightness was practiced; making a good name was worth more than silver and gold

There existed a civilization of wise men and none dared to have his conscience sold



The black race in Africa was the pride of planet earth before the invasion of slavery

The incursion of our native kingdoms and forceful exiling of kings who fought bravely

In the year 1897 a punitive expedition was launched against the famous Benin City

Priceless artefacts were destroyed and historical items were looted by colonialist

We forget so soon the western backed assassination of our prominent Nationalist

The killings of Patrice Lumumba, then prime minister of newly independent Congo

The western backed bloody coup d’état that killed Thomas Sankara of Burkina Faso



Lucid and brilliant leaders in Africa, in the likes of Amilcar Cabral, were brutally wasted

Puppets were installed to govern us by proxy while the colonial master’s reign lasted

Laws limiting our sovereign growth to the advantage of foreign powers were enacted

History has now been distorted to discredit the influences such great leaders exerted



We lost the teachings that instilled confidence & pride in us, our ways now are perverted

Religion has now divided our once harmonious people irrespective of our varying tongues

The sounds of black women & children singing and dancing is now replaced by war drums

We are self destructive now just as our enemies had programmed our mindset as bombs

What happened to our dignity and acknowledgement of the sanctity of human lives?

We’ve betrayed our fore-fathers forsaking their primitive beliefs but we are more barbaric

It’s a shame to see how we’ve fallen from grace to grass, our perpetual ignorance is tragic.