500 Years

Our whole continent was in a hot dense state

And nearly 400 years of slavery couldn't wait.

The British began to drool

And imperialism was cool

Because Africa needed "school".

SCHOOL you said?

They took our fathers to cotton fields

To fight wars that needed no shields.

They had a head start and free labour

And they got this by dividing us from our neighbour.

With all our rubber, steel and diamonds they went

0nly to start off an era of resent.

Then came WW1, 2 and a sense of liberation.

But it was all an act of deliberation

Of a new form of modern colonization.

The cold war that followed brought us a wall and atomic bomb

As well as a series of western norms.

It also brought us India and Pakistan

Uzbekistan, Kyrgystan, Tajikistan .

We were promised world peace by the United Nations

But all they did was test our patience,

As our oil fueled their petrol stations .

The IMF handed out loans. Ah! What a fallacy!

To continue to feed us their development fantasy.

They encouraged the export of raw materials:

Minerals, metals, breads and cereals.

They gave us pennies in return,

What debt was, we had to learn.

Around the world, no Robin Hood was seen.

And money only mattered if it was green.

They devalued our currency.

Education and health care were no longer an urgency .

They forced a reduction in social and governmental spending.

Now the consequences are never ending.

The rich became Warner Bros.

Yet the rest of us couldn't even afford to watch their shows.

The gap between the rich and the poor has grown.

Along with the West, the 1% exploited their own .

9/11, enough said,

But was the Quran even read?

Al-Qaeda, Taliban and Isis

Say hello to the new global security crisis.

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Was not an invitation to enter our fights .

In the midst of creating the perfect society

We forgot all about refugees anxiety.

"Africa is a land of savages" and "All Muslims are terrorists", they say

How ignorant is your education system anyway?

Foreign aid always came with strings attached

And the donor intentions never matched.

And now,

Real wages have dropped massively.

Yet we continue to complain passively.

Companies from afar are now incharge.

And locals lose their jobs at large.

Health care has become a luxury.

Only the rich can afford surgery.

More children and mothers are dying .

Why can't anyone hear our crying?

Our resources are depleting,

Yet our chimneys are still competing.

We try meeting after meeting .

But will we even have something to keep eating.

It is time to put a stop to this!

The constant meddling we won't miss.

Africa doesn't need to be saved.

Definitely not with their fooling aid.

Our problems we will fix on our own.

No more of their Goddamn loan.

Hey but HOW?

A united civil society we will create.

One without tribal or cultural hate.

Education, health care and peace is the way.

Let's remember that everyday.

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