Greedy Leaders (Revised) Poem by Margaret Alice Second

Feeling infinitely sad realising the fate of Africa's poorest
& underprivileged was sealed some 400 years ago when
the small white tribe was abandoned in the Cape by their
political masters - & isolated themselves to retain identity
while dreaming a developed country, with migrant African
aliens supposed to return to Nomadic & Nubian Africa

The small white community tried stemming the incoming
tide of Africa by making self-destructive rules, eventually
diffused by a Thembu priest-king preaching forgiveness -
Africa gained dominion over Europeans - but sentenced
their own people to serfdom - African moguls destroying
the African communities' chances to obtain training -

Cronyism & socialism steal from tax-paying people; white
& black governments failed Africa - international crime is
undoing the priest-king's redemption as he's rejected by
his own people; Africa's ruined by her absolute despots
selling Africa's indigenous people into slavery - as has
been done so often before - now the question is: can

Africa learn to take care of herself before her greedy
leaders destroy the continent completely?