ANTHONY ANIGBATA

We are the people, the people of Africa
We are black and proud
We are mighty and strong
We are the giants in the green Sahara;
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dark clouds cover the blue sky
angry wind wangle so wild
men and women dart here and there
like running from a wild beast
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The bells I hear ringing
The yells so near to us
A year’s heading to the dust
Flowers filling the empty floors
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O, see how, many years can make a man,
A very strong man now a weakling
A handsome lad, now a clownish looking fellow.
His coiled black hair now grey like the sky
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WE HAVE GONE TO SCHOOL

We have gone to school
Took the tough path with bravery
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THE WIND SAILED BY YESTERDAY

The wind sailed by yesterday
At twilight ere the night
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MOSQUITOS

Little creature, little creature
You sing to me a sad song when
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Worry not always you being
Worry not of tomorrow and future things
Worry not of what you cannot change
But plan to face them as they come.
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Nothing is easy to start at first
But we all just need to start a thing
Burn our past and move ahead
To new things we dream and want.
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My Africa, my Africa
My Africa is the land of beauty,
The land of plenty primordial heritage
The land of many ancient myths
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BE HAPPY.

No medicine is as potent as happiness
That cures the heart, soul and body
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Wake up Africa; wake up to this embellished world
Wake up you sons of the Sahara
And see how far the world has sojourned
While you sleep and snore in your tattered hammock.
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Autumn come and autumn go
Spring will come with charmin' glow
Now is time for winter to blow
Feel the cold and see the snow
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Young girls sit and wonder why
This old lady never seem to try
To comb her hair or paint her nails
Or walk the street, on a high heels.
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THE ABORTED CHILD

What crime committed he, child
Who wanted to behold the world
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TO HIS BEAUTIFUL BRIDE

They came from the mountains lands
To this place
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THE AFRICAN WOMAN

blessed are you men amongst these women
who are bestowed gaily looks like gold
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CRY NOT BLACK AFRICA

Cry not black Africa, cry not for your sons
Stolen along the swords,
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SUFFERING AND SMILING

Suffering and smiling when will it end?
Our torments by these tyrants
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THE SUN

When the dawn drove down
You sprang bright from the east
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