‘lyrics’ Archives
MAY OUR PEOPLE TRIUMPH By Patrice Emery Lumumba 1925-1961
Weep, O my black beloved brother deep buried in eternal, bestial night. O you, whose dust simooms and hurricanes have scattered all over the vast earth, You, by whose hands the pyramids were reared In memory of royal murderers, You, rounded up in raids; you, countless times defeated In all the battles ever won by brutal force; You, who were [...]
Back and Forth from Africa to Haiti to Gaza: Fidelity to Humanity By Jacques Depelchin
www.otabenga.org A poem linking Israel's December 2008 to January 2009 siege of Gaza to Haiti. First , not quite, but we have to start somewhere, There were the Arawaks, the Caribs and the Amerindians Then their land became known as Hispaniola, As Saint Domingue, as the economic jewel Of French overseas possessions Thanks to Africans [...]
