I Hope In Africa Poem by John Chizoba Vincent

I have hope in Africa
That this rain will stop
When the drums are sounded
and every woman remember home
and boys take up farming as a career.


Then Okonkwo will return to Africa
Home won't be like Animal Farm
Where the leaders rule heartlessly
Inu Ego won't suffer again in her next world
We shall see Kainene in Abba forest.


Chinua Achebe will sit and smile
Wole Soyinka will speak less in fury
Chimamanda will return home from abroad
And Nkrumah will rejoice where ever he is
This is our hope tabled under the sun.


Then Africa shall arise in good fate
then Africa shall sing a melodious song
then Africa shall wear smile like clothes
I will know you and you will know me
Nothing shall bother our sky to doom.


May we always remember our home
May we always write good of her
May we not be hidden in tinted glasses
May we always have this hope for life
For Africa shall stand when we stood.


©John Chizoba Vincent