Tomorrow in Africa

 

 

Tomorrow in Africa!

I strongly believe someday,

Africa shall rise and shine,

free from centuries of

oppression,

free from all forms of slavery,

unchain from shackles of

colonization,

set free from many years of

subjugation.

Oh! Africa-I believe your day

shall soon come,

when neither London nor

Lisbon shall decide your fate

again;

I have a vision-not even-

Paris, Brussels, Berlin, Rome or

Madrid shall have a say in your

affairs again.

Africa! I have a dream that

someday,

centuries of dirge shall turn

benediction,

symphony of sorrow across

Atlantic shall turn

symphony of joy.

Africa! I strongly believe,

someday Cairo and Cape Town

shall see themselves as

brothers,

as Nile River takes message of

lovely brotherhood 
from Victoria Fall

to Cairo.

Yeah! I see a vision

from Abidjan through

Abuja to Addis-Ababa,

no one shall see color,

language, and religion,

anymore;

shalom, amani, and

as-salam-aleyi-Kum

shall rend the beautiful sky

of Africa.

I have a vision-
Kinshasa-Khartoum-

Kigali-Kampala 
will someday

rise above hate,
ignore

colonial boundaries 
bequeathed to them,

but live in 
courtyard of peace.

Africa-I see in horizon-

that day when natives from

Cameroon to Dakar in Senegal

on Cap-Vert peninsula

and Nouakchott in Mauritania

shall see one another as brothers,

no more Anglophone or

Francophone.

Africa-I see not too far

that day when Africans

shall be proud of Africa;

I see not far-
when Zulu, Xhosa,

Basotho, Bapedi, 
Khoisan, Khoikhoi,

Venda, Tswana, Tsonga,

Swazi, and 
Ndebele shall chorus:

amani, vrede, 
and khotso,

anytime 
they see one another.

Africa that time
 shall come

when Arabs, 
Berbers, Tuareg

in North,

Ashanti, 
Yoruba, Igbo, Hausa,

Fula, Fon, Ewe, 
Aja, Akan, and

Mandinka in West 
will speak to

one another not in 
language of war

but of peace;

as brethren shall say: 
“alaafia,

fifa, utifafa, salam, udo.

Africans at home or in 
diaspora,

I say that day shall come

when kith and kin in

African Great Lakes of

Burundi, 
Democratic Republic

of the Congo, 
Kenya, Rwanda,

Tanzania, and 
Uganda shall say

“amani, chibanda, 
uxolo, thayu,

to one another.

Kikuyu, Luo, 
Kalejin, Massai,

will see no difference 
among themselves,

Hutu and Tutsi will know

they’re brothers.

Amhara, Afar and 
Tigray or

Tigrinya will 
co-exist peacefully

as never before;

Beja of Sudan and Eritrea

will share boundaries with

Nubians, Nuers, and Dinkas.

Oromos in Ethiopia 
and Kenya

will no longer see 
differences

Berlin Conference-

artificially-created boundaries

had caused them as 
brothers again;

Somalis will 
forget those

multiple clans,

but work for united 
Somali in

Somaliland.

Lemba-regardless of their

Jewish origin and traditions-

Zimbabwe will always be

your home, and your brothers

shall be Shona, 
Ndebele,

Asians, Whites, 
and people of

mixed heredity or 
multiple

ancestry.

Africans-whether 
Ovimbundu,

Kimbundu, Herero, 
Nama, Damara

Ovambo, Kavango, 
Bakongo,

mixed race, 
European,

Shangaan, Makua, 
Shona, Tsonga,

Makonde, Ndua, 
Yao, Nyanjo, Ngoni,

Sena, Ngonde, Lozi, 
Chewa, Bemba

in Southern 
African region,

or Luba, Mongo, 
and Bakongo

in Central African region-

one united Africa on the way.

Africa! Africa! Africa!

the dawn has arrived,

darkness is over,

new song to SING.