Xenophobia Poem by Martin Greyford

In the universe
It's only in Africa where we hear
Of fellow brothers and sisters
Maltreating their fellow siblings
Because they don't speak the same language.

They kill each other, burning their colleagues
Without mercy and they celebrate
What they have done as if it does make
Sense without them knowing they are
Destroying themselves and thus reducing themselves in number.

Brothers and sisters,
We may belong to different nations
But when we meet as black people
We are a family born in our beautiful
Land and continent called Africa.
Let's stop the habit of killing
Each other because he's not of our land.
Every African brother is our brother and father.
Every African sister is our sister and mother.
Let's take Africa on top of the world because of love.

Let's not be wicked that
We offer ourselves to the gods of the earth
By sacrificing our friend's lives on fire.
We are one people and one family.
Africa, united we stand divided we fall.