Remembering African Slavery Poem by Qiniso Mogale

Remembering African slavery
For centuries the African was a slave
More than five centuries Africans enslaved
Rudely displaced and separated from loved ones
Enduring untold hardships for centuries
Treated like commodities instead of human beings
Treated with utmost disdain and disrespect
Instilled in them the inferiority complex
Remembering African slavery
My heart bleeds profusely.

Remembering African slavery
Forcibly uprooted from Africa
Sold like items of trade
African women kidnapped and raped
African men battered
Africans exploited
African rights trampled upon
Africans made labourers and creators of
wealth for Europeans.

Remembering African slavery
The Bible misused and abused
The African told he was cursed by God
The African for centuries confused and confounded
The African left with a wedge of discord
Enslaved and then colonised
Colonised and then left devastated
The misery suffered unexplainable
The mental and physical torture unfathomable.