A Call to Consciousness

Young world mover, shaker

Essence of Afrika

Mind of a revolutionary woman

Young mind full of old souls

Those whom never die

For their lives have become open texts books

Whose lives were laid down for my life

Acknowledging history to move and rehabilitate

The minds of the Afrikan youth

Needing to unlearn the systems of oppression

To relearn the Afrikan renaissance

To bring back Afrikan pride in understanding the essence of being Afrikan

Needing to unlearn language and vocabulary

That speaks in oppressive manners of the Afrikan child

Words have become the biggest prison of the Afrikan mind

We are oppressed by more then just western systems

Also their words

The Afrikan mind is imprisoned by ideologies of the coloniser

Whilst the youth and the Afrikan continent lack consciousness of their Afrikaness

The West has not problem defining Afrikan to the Afrikan

Young world mover, shaker, essence of Afrika

A call of consciousness has been made

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Dear Beautiful coconut black girl

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