Excellent writings.May God answer our prayers.
Habib Ghanim <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
OKO

Beautiful poem

May the great spirits with Allah answer your prayers

Habib






>From: Oko Drammeh <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: Our Beloved Africa
>Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 20:58:49 +0200
>
>A unedited Poem by Oko Drammeh
>www.okodrammeh.com
>
>God of the Universe ,Creator of Life,Thank you for the gifts of our
>continent,Africa-for her people her rich past,her contribuyion to
>mother
>earth. For her rich Rhythms through art and music,thank you.For her
>precious stories,and her struggle for victory over circumstances
>thank
>you.For  her beautiful people of wisdom amidst struggle,thank you
>for
>the animal Kingdom,and to the Serengeti ,thank you.Let the living
>water
>flow that link us with our sisters and brothers across the continent
>of
>Africa
>For the stories of the bibical Egypt and abyssnia .that have
>influence
>Islam and Christian growth and understanding for centuries,thank
>you.
>
>Peace be still in the land of our beloved Africa
>
>From the rich shores of West Africa -The Gambia ,Nigeria Togo
>Benin,Senegal
>The Ivory Coast, The Gold Coast,The Pepper coast.
>Where crime of the past of Slavery and Colonisation have torn
>spirits,
>Dear lord, mend, restore and renew. Lift the faces of the waiting
>African daughters and sons of wisdom and understanding to our own
>faces
>of compassion and Love. Bind us all in the
>spirit of brotherhood and sisterhood never to be forgotten. Release
>the
>spirit of superiority and inferiority from one another.
>
>In central, South, Eastern and Africa forgive the crimes of the past
>by
>thoes who might misunderstood the people ofd thoes areas Repair the
>ravages of the present ,that Congo, Somalia and Sudan and all of
>Southern Africa will be restored in your divine glory.
>
>To Northern Africa-Out of Egypt may we remember the fallern people
>and
>fortresses,rich contributors of the human story of excellence,and
>also
>examples of the excesses of greed which remove us from our purpose
>on
>earth,to love and serve one another in the name of the creator.Thank
>you, for Egypt's myth and for the mothers asnd daughters and sons
>who
>helped bind humanity.
>May love giving and sharing return to the lands of our beloved
>Africa,let her contributions be our modern world contuinue to be
>understood by all. May her riches be valued and cherished by every
>soul
>who journeys to her beautiful land and shores.
>
>Dear lord May the villages of Africa become our village.
>In the stillness of our own thoughts peace be still in Africa.
>
>Pax Vobis cum !!!
>
>Thank you God
>
>Oko Drammeh
>Soto Koto Music(c)
>
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