'Still me'
1.Africas voice cry out in the steel hollow of her paralysis!
2.Brain cells refuse to fuse for the common good.
3.Every cell for self, the demand for survival become swordly.
4.No one seem to hold the cup strong enough.
5.Confusions and contracdictions lie side by side feeling  nothing.
^.'regions' and language bars ,conditioning sum to selfmutilate young.
7.No
8.To  be or not to be?
>From: Dawda Jallow <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: For All Africans (AFRICA FLIES AWAY)
>Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2000 06:03:00 EDT
>
>                  AFRICA FLIES AWAY
>
>1.  I hung a head over my window and saw
>2.  Africa in shreds flying away.
>3.  My mind and voice called in a solemn
>4.  Serene frail tone but no answer bounced.
>5.  Like a rainbow eight colors the facets of Africa
>6.  Dissolved in the air penetrating the atmosphere,
>7.  Thermosphere, stratosphere, mesosphere,
>8.  And the galaxies to be beyond reach for her safety.
>9.  This altitude she knows her people are not opt for yet,
>10. But later, and when? But will be costly by then.
>11. On akimbo then in crossed fingers dilemma I stared.
>12. On my pillow now I nodded for why she flies away,
>13. And my ease and sorrow suppressed my worry.
>14. But why she gives deaf ears, too, of complexity
>15. And perplexity.
>16. I'd have cried out again AFRICA! Come back please,
>17. But on my pillow nights and nights,
>18. Days and days passed by before I knew SHE
>19. And HER people distrusted each other that's
>20. The soil and the natives, while the East and West
>21. Turned their backs. Are AFRICANS still in myth?
>22. Her friends had cultured her wrong setting
>23. And her own folks are sinking her abyss.
>24. As "YAAHA" a norm and "JAGARR" a taboo.
>25. Affirm her sanctity and socio-economic-political chaste.
>
>26. Dare not mess up her status quo or status-quo ante.
>27. "JAGARR" and "YAAHAA" will never meet,
>28. Unmatched parallelism, like the cats and dogs
>29. Political vendetta. CAN'T GO simultaneously! Never
>30. She FLIES because these two are equal to
>31. Letter O, or zero, unless the "YAAHA" dies and
>32. The "JAGARR" lives.
>33. The political Divas, the political Freaks,
>34. The political Demagogues scared AFRICA
>35. To fly away, living throats to drought and stomachs
>36. To famine ---Did entrepreneurship, capital, or economy
>37. Hung her a beggar? Amazing!
>39. The rich continent as the Portuguese named her.
>40. Are Africans the rulers of Africa?
>41. Or the colonialists careless and we lesser?
>42. Or is this the African people civilization or
>43. The African land civilization?
>44. Lamentable if she calls no AFRICAN witness
>45. Because of distrust, yet she was alone
>46. In the Diaspora, what a peril.
>47. Should she asks herself to witness her, and any abuser,
>48. If any, will be astonished or astounded.
>49. Take a heed let the pure girl alone.
>50. Is never a crime for isolated inability but it might
>
>51. Be for interference with inability.
>52. Is about commitment and involvement for AFRICA.
>53. Lets not seduce her for she'll stand alone,
>54. If loneliness suits, though her innocence flies away.
>55. Poor girl! what's gone wrong with your love ones!
>56. Thy dignity shines.
>57. The sun will rise for you if they're gentle with you.
>58. Come Africa, come the true builders.
>59. Come honesty, intellectualism, resources, come!
>60. Africa thou asked for love like the Smiling Coast,
>61. The GAMBIA, within, no oppression shall accord, nor shall
>62. Hate pollutes your goodly acts.
>63. Arise we are short and you're tall
>64. AFRICA the heart of the world map standing almost,
>65. Like an edged heart in the center.
>66. Africa is our experience not a test.
>67. For her part as a beautiful and gorgeous
>68. Lass, she loves us with diadem.
>69. What's the matter with us to mistreat
>70. A glamorous girl who loves us dearly?
>71. How much instead to give if you own
>72. A million Dollars or Dalasis to this pretty
>73. Girl, or to share wisdom with her.
>74. We all kiss her, and apologize, then take a U-turn
>75. Or a three-sixty degrees and must we reverse towards her.
>
>76. May the accidental captains get down on board.
>77. Those who are sure with guaranteed heart, should woo,
>78. The lass. Africa don't sink or allow your sinking.
>79. I wonder on understanding the scientific formulas
>80. And missing the bread and butter formulas, us,
>81. Africans, is time to redress for even the SNOW.
>82. Economics is now greed and politics is now power
>83. From which the "YAAHAA" aspires from and ascribes to.
>84. It's unfair to blame the land but the rulers more,
>85. Still less for the ruled, too.
>86. Education is the eyes of a nation.
>87. Just an analytical cerebral cortex to eat
>88. What the universe cooks and serves.
>89. Obtain the world's MENU for yourself
>90. Whilst you cook and serve, too.
>91. Your loyal and royal ones, the books,
>92. And computers have held the records
>93. Whilst your "yet to born" will grief and
>94. Question the crossroads, because all they'll
>95. Adorn and yearn for will be beauty,
>96. Moisturizers not wrinkles, not callouses.
>97. A youth requires millenium energy to survive
>98. The millenium tides.
>99. Africa come we apologize and start again.
>100. And GOD bless Africa!
>.
>     Dawda Kabba Jallow.2000
>
>  Footnote.  Oolof words by the GAMBIA'S Wollof tribe--
>                  Meanings as used in the context.
>
>      JAGARR-- Means to develop.
>     YAAHA--- Means to destroy.
>
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