It Is About Time Africa Poem by DEDAN ONYANGO

Africa a continent of beauty and wealth
But unknown and unexplored by its humanity.
Africa why the animosity?
Across your nations war tempers rage
Across the rivers, bones float
Of mothers and children
Killed mercilessly,
AFRICA, Where did your humanity evaporate?

Africa, the land of milk and honey
The land of great men and women
With their philosophies,
A new dawn was built.
Ujama was enacted in Tanzania
So near is South Africa
Apartheid became history.
But why Africa,
Why the mysteries?


Africa your name betrays you,
Vultures maneuvers your city skies
With craving cries
They feed on flesh
Scattered, butchered by the power thirsty rogues
You call them your leaders..?

Africa your name betrays you!
Call upon the name in Scandinavian lands
Temperatures of dissolute pictures of malnourished individuals
Glitter with guilt.
Hatred germinates
While inhumane, Africa you dress in the cloth of shame.

The owls cry when the big yellow ball is shining
Is that not a bad omen Africa?
Africa why the hypocrisy?
Many pretend to be righteous,
But only a few are right.
Like lions we are ready to pounce on one another,
Our tribal claws ready to taste blood
All these to safeguard your tribes Africa.
Africa,
Too quick to forget like warthogs
We forget that we are created in His Likeliness
Africa, your name betrays you
That is our weakness
My weakness…

It is about time
Africa let go of the absurdism,
Restore back your Humanism.
Embrace the reality,
Face the reality Africa.
Africa,
Listen to the cries of the generations to come
Africa adjust your safe belt, the journey to liberal- land is long
Yes it is,
The journey must be taken though
As much as man dies liberty will never perish.
Liberate yourself from these new breeds of hyenas
Remember your are not a cockroach

Reason Africa,
It is about time
Do the unthinkable!