
Africa in My Own Words
By Sasha Bowman
With all the UNITY, they made STRENGTH…
The HOPE they
had lead them to FREEDOM.
All the STRUGGLE and all the
pain helped us to
Represent our name. The WHITE man took
us
From GHANA, KENYA, and ZIMBABWE
We
prayed to GOD we would come back to
whence we came. The
HOMELAND, the
MOTHERLAND, the land of our FREEDOM
We lost our WEALTH, we lost our ROOTS
Just because
of our BLACK skin. We have the
FAITH to make it through.
The STRENGTH...
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