MAMA

   
DON'T TELL MAMA ALL YOU KNOW

Run, please run my brother
Run beyond the southern border
Run faster than the warder
Take a message to Mama
Tell her "The gods are not to blame"
When "Half of a yellow sun"
Shines on "The road to bar beach"
And "Things fall apart"
Africa is "No longer at ease"
When "The lion and the jewel"
Play in "The forest of a thousand demons"
Please "Say you are one of them"

White Africans with black heart
Black conscience, a clouded mat
Spread across the southern part
Africa to rip and tear apart
Southern Kaduna to South Africa
Africa killing Africa
Prejudice against religion
Prejudice against tribe
Prejuduce against regions with a different blood type
Am I a product of Jacob?
That you should revenge for Esau
Shall we also breakup, for a crime we never saw?

Run, please run my brother
Run before we lose another
Live to speak for blood of a brother
Live to revenge, the spoils to recover
Revenge on foreighners
Revenge on immigrants
Revenge on mariner as-well-as infant
Tell Mama Africa never to shudder
Tell her I died to save a brother
Never mention I was killed by a brother
Even if her tears should fall to snow
Please, don't tell Mama all you know

...Dedicated to victims of xenophobia
in southern Kaduna and South Africa
                     Peter Benjamin Peter