FREE AFRICA!
Free East Africa!
Free Uganda
Unseating the Ankole-cattle patron
Take the reigns from the old order and pass the button
To the youth and to the future
Down with systemic generational nepotism
Burn down the age of despotism
Destroy the old wine skins
Because the future is now, now is all we have
Give Bobi no pen, give him a gun
For if the Nile has to turn scarlet for the pearl of Africa
to glow once more
so be it!
Free East Africa!
free Tanzania
A single party anarchy that cares not of human rights
A masked dictatorship that promises shorter days and longer nights
The party of Nyerere, the African Shakespeare
reeks of nothing but unprecedented fear
Down with the hopelessness brought by anarchy
Burn down the electoral injustices and the suppression of basic freedoms
Fire up the belly of the Tanzanian patriot
Give them a straw to hold on to in this sea of turmoil
With their sorrows deeper than Tanganyika
and their expectations higher than Kilimanjaro
with their faces pale like the Maasai plains of Loliondo
Give them a pen or give them a gun
For we all need to feel secure in our own skin
Tanzania has to be free
so be it!
Free East Africa!
Free Kenya!
My motherland shackled and chained to greedy dynasties
who pass on power to their offspring like a family heirloom
subjecting the Kenyan populace and our future to perpetual doom
To democracy and development they give no room
Down with systemic generational nepotism
Burn down the effigy of Kenyan despotism
Reignite the embers of freedom
For it is not yet uhuru in our land
Give me my pen or give me a gun
For the sun rises no more in our hearts
If we have to revolt for kenya to be free
so be it!
Free Africa!
Powerful!
ReplyDeleteWow, does it really matter what we say here today? The pen screams for a gun, and the gun for a pen. Who has to answer first? It is important for the people to wake up from their egocentrism inflated by forceful capitalism. This piece of information should be translated in all languages spoken in East Africa, to rid us of the ravaging division tearing us apart every day. We have lost our sense of freedom, and turned against each other. Our leaders whom we trusted to protect, and promote freedom and equity are just taking everything for themselves; the citizens are left fighting each other for whatever little is left. It is very sad that we'd rather unite to defend failed "leaders" who have continued to betray our uhuru and stolen our resources for their personal gain, other than unite to save ourselves from this masked oppression.
ReplyDeleteWe suffer from governments supposedly by the people, but definitely not for the people. In as much that our democracies are young, I believe they are old enough for our governments to act in the interests of the people, and not for the people to forcefully act in the interests of the government.
Pen or gun, we must all unite and save ourselves from our own sufferings!
Very touchable....
ReplyDeleteCouldn't agree more. The pen screams for a gun, and the gun for a pen
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