Επιμέλεια: Εύα Πετροπούλου Λιανού
Gone are those days
When the baking sun tanned your back to ache
When your children toiled in the mid-day sun
When you were abandoned to the cobwebs of desolation
Walked through the labyrinth of humiliation
And drank from oppressive cups of slavery
It’s time to “Wake up like the angry sun.”
Keep love aglow like rainbow’s ray
Walk-in a peaceful reflection like the moon
To dispel worldly darkness
Share hugs like butterflies
To eschew violence
For poverty loomed our soil like a swarm of bees
Terrorism ravaged like Corona in China
Creating tenses in our air
Suffocating man and education
Thus, accelerating in retarding motion
O’er and o’er the gods wept
Mother-Earth bled in a million pools
The passing winds mourn the fading of peace
But I see a rainbow descending from distant hills
I see rays of a new-born sun
Striving its bright beam again
Africa, Arise in unity
Build a nation void of corruption
Where freedom is the music
Tune, of the passing birds
The United Nations Of Africa
Where tribe, language, religion, and creed
Can no longer be a dichotomy
But equations of our harmony
Trampling upon racial acrimony
And flag the banner of unity
Yes, we can!
Oh, Africa! Arise!
© Aminu Femi Jamiu
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Aminu Femi Jamiu is an Internationally recognized, Award – Winning Nigerian Poet, Author, Editor, Social Activist, International Ambassador Of Peace, Universal Icon Of Poetry, recipient of several National and International Awards, including the Gujarat Sahitya academy award India, World Union of Poets “Icon Of Peace award 2021”, e.t.c. He was born on 26th October 1994, in Ayegunle Gbede, Ijumu L.G.A. Kogi State. He is an HND holder of Biochemistry from Kogi State Polytechnic, lokoja, Nigeria. And he is a chemistry, physics and mathematics teacher. Femi has authored three books, two english poetry collections and one international anthology ‘Poetry Pearls (A collection of poems)’, Echo From The Storm (A collection of poems)’ and ‘Cosmic Voice (The International Anthology of Contemporary Global Poets), co-author of 40 Anthologies world wide. His poems have been published in many Magazines, Journals, E-zines and Newspapers. His poems have been translated into many International languages. Recently his poem has been published in Guinness World Record holding Anthology (Hyperpoem). He has been featured as one of the World’s Contemporary Poet. He’s the founder and president of the international literary online platform “Home of Global Writers.
