By Brother Biko
oh soweto
oh children
oh zimbabwe
not yet uhuru
theyve not changed
they wont change
we have to change things
chaining our feet
hanging our mind
tearing us apart to build themselves
satisfying their selfishness and greed
on our mind and our back
destroying our cultures
stealing our myths
and giving it back to us
to make us look stupid
giving us a god to worship to keep us in slave ship
diverting our attention to the skies
as they dig beneath our sole
for the gold that made europe and amerikkka
drowning us in angry oceans
casting us into prisons within prisons
for the crime of speaking about freedom
as they sleep with our wives
rape our mothers
snatch our husbands
kill our fathers
shattering our families into irretrievable pieces
battering our heads for refusing to be slaves
chopping off our hands over rubber
making us do the same to ourselves
for them to get their blings
demonizing us for reclaiming our farmlands
confusing us to the realities of this life
crushing our aspirations and giving us false hopes
unfair trade deals here and there
allying themselves to oppressive pro western regimes
providing tips to blind our foolish leaders
for them to keep the people in poverty
by bringing in idiotic problematic solutions
to aggravate white mess all these years
and yet the slavemasters talk about a curse on afrikans
what curse do we know of if not they on us
what curse is undoing afrikans
if not the same old colourless curse
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