Africa Where Is Your Humanity Poem by Ben Gugu Mthimunye

It is love that brings unity
in a community.
With love being kind
is not a duty,
but it is the nature and beauty
of a loving being.
We have chased
love and its humanity away
and developed traits like hate
which lead us astray.

Oh Africa! oh no South Africa!
where is the spirit of 'ubuntu' in us?
Did it die with our ancestors?
we treat our brothers and sisters
as just a mass of carcass.
what's happening with us? !
we have become criminals
who claim to be freedom fighters.
we have evolved to animals!
we have become famous, blasphemous, poisonous
killers.
Dangerous than the Blue Ringed Octopus.

Oh africa! we hold on to religions,
cultures and traditions
yet we forgot our origins
we forgot that we share common genes.
without Love
we are not human beings!
without unity
we are weak like a rand
campared to a US dollar
I wonder how divided we will be
now that there is ebola.

But Africa! ...Africa! ...
Africa will never  ever have peace
until he recieves The Prince of Peace.
Oh I know!
Africa will never ever glow
until he recieves The Light,
The plight will drag Africa low
untill he bows down low on his Knees
and pray 'Nkosi sikelela' from the bottom of his heart.
For this!
For this! is not a political isue.
it is spiritual! scriptural!
it needs spiritual virtue
from The Messiah,
He is the only source of peace
that can cause Africa to be without any phobia but Theophobia
and peace