Liberian Literary Magazine
Promoting Liberian Literature, Arts and Culture
Lassana V. Donzo
Mama Africa Must Awake And Rise Up Now
Africa! Oh sleeping Mama Africa
Rise up as did Europe and America
Verily! your children are suffering
Frustratingly, your leaders are bluffing
They have created animosity among Africans leading
to ethnic cleansings among brethren.
They have made joblessness a professional
occupation for Mama Africa's youthful populations.
These leaders are best known for their arrogance,
intolerance, ruthlessness, and lack of visions
Why should you allow yourself to be psychologically
corrupted?!
Why allow your precious resources to be viciously
pillaged? Why be exploited?!
Why should your children be victims of modern
slavery in foreign lands?!
Why should your dependency be on aids and
donations from Western hands?!
For so long we have been viewed as a people
backward.
Everything about us is being misperceived by others.
We have neglected our African civilizations and
adopted Western ones which promise great rewards.
We have become, on the face of this earth, the most
brainwashed and best cowards
You're stigmatized as the most impoverished
continent.
Your offspring do nothing; taking this as a matter
seriously pertinent.
Your leaders don't care for the welfare and progress
of their people.
Your children's plights, resulting from leaders' greed,
are left tedious. They linger; they perish; they’re in
limbo
It's time for you Mama Africa to awake and rise up
from your deep sleep.
It's time to graduate from the western mentalities
being imposed on you like