Forget
it; forget it all,
Colonialism, Neo-colonialism, Imperialism, They didn’t cause this fall, Some raison d'être must exist, A rationale for this I-Don’t-Careism, Would you tell me?
Who’s to blame, You, them, or me For the way we are?
How do we explain That we didn’t hear when Samuel F. Morse sent, “What God hath wrought”? Or when the brothers Wright took to flight, Or that we know not from whence we came Or to where we go?
Tell me, who is responsible?
Whom do I ask? The excited barefooted children Sitting under the blistering tropical sun singing, “In the bleak mid winter…” Or should I ask you sitting there, trying To be like “Pussy Cat, Pussy Cat…”?
When the drums did beat, Your feet couldn’t, wouldn’t dance, You were lost to it all, Adowa, Agbadza even the Kpanlogo stance, You swayed not to home brewed rhythms; Who is to blame?
Here, near the centre of the Earth, Passions not actions define all factions, Here where the Sun kisses length and breadth, Fingers are pointed for days on end.
Who is responsibl…
Colonialism, Neo-colonialism, Imperialism, They didn’t cause this fall, Some raison d'être must exist, A rationale for this I-Don’t-Careism, Would you tell me?
Who’s to blame, You, them, or me For the way we are?
How do we explain That we didn’t hear when Samuel F. Morse sent, “What God hath wrought”? Or when the brothers Wright took to flight, Or that we know not from whence we came Or to where we go?
Tell me, who is responsible?
Whom do I ask? The excited barefooted children Sitting under the blistering tropical sun singing, “In the bleak mid winter…” Or should I ask you sitting there, trying To be like “Pussy Cat, Pussy Cat…”?
When the drums did beat, Your feet couldn’t, wouldn’t dance, You were lost to it all, Adowa, Agbadza even the Kpanlogo stance, You swayed not to home brewed rhythms; Who is to blame?
Here, near the centre of the Earth, Passions not actions define all factions, Here where the Sun kisses length and breadth, Fingers are pointed for days on end.
Who is responsibl…