Silence In Africa Poem by Kenneth Maswabi

Stop and listen
There is a blistering silence
Pervading the African continent
A constipated silence
Full of protesting voices
Songs of freedom sung in silence

Africa is full of silence
No one is protesting against inequality
No voice shouts against the ravaging poverty
Not even a soul to protest against brutal dictatorships
Silenced protesters roam the plains
And the highlands of Africa
Muffled by their perpetual hunger
Stifled by their perpetual fear

Wild politics soak the mud of Africa
Democracy has been turned upside down
A minority rules against the majority's wishes
Sentencing millions of people to hunger
Unleashing havoc among the poor
Their voice permanently muted by hunger
Their prison cell is poverty