Poem – Rise Africa

Rise Africa

From the filthy mud of ignorance

To the beautiful rock of knowledge

And reach forth for your glory

For faded away is your story

And dwindling along is your history

Rise Africa

Wake from your drowsiness

And make your children great

So that you can be among the great continents

Rise Africa

Rise tall and reach for the sky

Because now you need to be high

High enough to be great

And attain the great height

Rise Africa,

And bring back to life your culture

Weld together all the fracture

To bring together your children in peace

So as to be one large piece

And not scattered around in useless pieces

Rise Africa

And fight together against a mighty foe

So that your children will not stand akimbo

And look at the woe

rise and shine!