For Lumumba and Cabral
Biko and Mondlane
Sibeko and Sankara
Hector Petersen and Bobby Hutton
Fred Hampton and George Jackson,
Jonathan too
For Malcolm and for Martin and Che
and those Kennedy Boys
for all those that were target practice for Jackals
only freedom can revenge your massacre
 

bullet riddled bodies
haunt my psyche
like the howlin siren sounds
of Jimi's axe
the urgency  of  Marley's
Redemption Song
cause Tosh told you everyone is crying out for peace
but only the dispossed cry for justice
 

So I speak for those that cannot read
and for those always in need
who know not why they bleed
homes and mosques bombed
living in shadows of olympic villages
sufferers of gentrification's pillages
soweto'd and gaza stripped
oppressed with your lips zipped
raped of diamonds, oil and gold
land stolen and sold
 

may karma treat you kindly
may Ogun bless u w his power
in the next incarnation
make you bullet proof
make you bullet proof
 

oh protectors of the land
it is with you
i pledge to stand and fight
til all Afrika is free
 

ngoma
11-15-2009 a.d.
 

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