4 centuries ago you were pure virgin.
Your environs, flora & fauna natural as ever.
Your descendant’s culture held them firm.
Your descendant’s education was unique.
Their religions were normal.
The law they abided to.
The Zulu in the south were brave and strong.
To the west the Hausa thrived.
To the east the Masai were indomitable.
The Beduins to the north persevered to the difficult desert life.
Yet someone somewhere reckoned you uncivilized.

4 centuries ago your descendants gave hospitality to a stranger.
A book on one hand and a gun on the other he enslaved your sons.
Inflicted an inferiority complex on them.
Forced his god upon your descendants.
Grabbed your lands and forced your sons to abide by his laws.
The Zulus did not understand and resiliently fought but lost.
The Hausa persisted but gave in.
The Maji maji rebellion, The Masai and the Beduins were stumbling blocks to the stranger’s success but…..they couldn’t.
All this they did in the name of civilization.

4 centuries later the colonial days are gone, Africa is ‘civilized’
Your environs, flora & fauna tampered with and polluted.
Your people’s culture and religion have perished for the worse.
Your lands have been fragmented.
Your sons are ever at-fighting not for their interest but for those of the ‘super powers’.
Wooden jungles have almost entirely gone.
Up have come concrete jungles .Lagos, Harare, Nairobi is but a few.
Untold misery is the order of the day in these jungles.
Violence, Poverty, Exploitation, Oppression, Segregation, you name it and its there.
All of the helm a few bourgeois, reckon it is civilization.
‘And civilization it is’.