User:Segun Oyeniran

1. O Africa a land of immense treasure and vast riches

A land of beauty, honour and power

Blessed with milk and honey by the Creator

To be a blessing to herself and to the entire world.

2. What made you lose credence in your abilities?

What made you downgrade the Creator's endowment in you?

What made you believe that you are inferior to the rest of the world?

What made you ashame of your language, culture and identity?

3. Why do you believe rightness and goodness is in skin colour?

Why do you believe exceptional wisdom is measured by the intensity of skin pigmentation?

Why do you believe you cannot do anything outstanding besides the ones done by people with fairer skin look?

Why do you believe other peoples are gods to you?

4. What made you act so cruelly to one another?

What made you sell your kinsmen into slavery?

What made you exchange a village with a glass of wine?

And a whole town with a bottle of liquor?

5. Why did you murder the harmless

Why did you feed the innocent to wild animals?

Why did you steal children from their parents?

Why did you let a generation go into slavery for worthless things.

6. O warriors of African tribes, you handed your people over to dangerous men for a bottle of wine

And a whole village for a pair of sandals

O mighty men, why didn't you use your mightiness to build a tower of refuge around your people?

O brave men, why couldn't you use your fortitude to erect a dependable fortress?

7. I see fathers weeping, never to see their sons and daughters again

I see mothers crying and sobbing relentlessly for their missing children

I see hopelessness in the eyes of the able sons and daughters gone to a land of no return

I see dispair written all over the faces of youngsters for they will never see their parents again

8. I see a whole village full of the aged and children

A city of crying toddlers and  hopeless grey-haired people

Shouts of joy ceased from the city

Bountiful harvest ended in the  farm

9. The whole city is in pain

The entire harmlet is in constant terror

Here they come the hunters of men

They attack the innocent and charge at the helpless

10. I see a lot of young people packed into iron cage with fetters tied to their wrists

I see so many sons and daughters arranged in cages with chains around their legs

I see a crowd fed in cages like dogs

I see mothers letting  their babies down into wooden vessels to feed

11. There is wickedness everywhere

Hunters going on rampage

No one sleeps with two eyes closed owing to dangerous slavers

They were once our bravest warriors but now they are blinded by insatiable greed and covetousness

12. The European and the Arabian slavers laughed at the foolishness of our warriors

A people swayed by mirrors and bottles of wine.

One deceived by greed and power

One given guns and arms to wreak havoc on his brethren

13. O Africa when will you stop your treachery

Will your jealousy and bitterness toward your neighbours never stop

O Africa will you ever stop treating your identity, culture, language and people with contempt

Will you ever stop elevating other peoples while demeaning your kinsmen

14. Now eighteenth and nineteenth century slave trade has passed

The trend of betrayal and slavery never ended

African leaders sell their kinsmen to other peoples of the world

Travel agents today sell their African sisters into sex-slavery

15. O Africa, how are we going to save ourselves from the taunt and contempt of other peoples

An object of mockery to the Whites

An object of derision to the Arabs

A whitewash to the Chinese  and Indians

16. Agape Love is the only antidote to our problem of jealousy

The contentment of a Saviour is the remedy to our self-consuming malady of greed

The kindness of a Redeemer ushers to charitable deeds

The peace of God impedes us from self-destruct disease of bitterness and rancour among us.

17. O Africa return to your Saviour today

O Africa come to the healing pool of your God

O Africa you are invited to feast at the table of our LORD

O Africa return to  Christ, your Saviour today