(BY MASTER APPIAH GRANT)
There I saw Mama Africa and her fauna
The euphoria of the meandering Victoria
And the wonder of the African Panda
Through the limits of Rwanda and Uganda
Where I met Mauritius and the lonely Seychelles
Sit arrest in the beauty of its bloomy breezy nest
Gazing with its long thong song waving and blazing
While by the Nile I await at the shores at its pretty bait
In the glory of the Rosetta stone and Pyramidal cone
Oh how I yearn to learn in the doors of Barbados
With the brethrens in the Diaspora who bite the African cola
Who feel the tearful peel of the African skin to thin
Down the lines of the Nile was the Tigris, Indus bounds
The Euphrates that dates the litigation of civilization
That descends and transcends mama Africa
Oh land of my birth! With thee I see the worth of mirth
While chanting in Bantu we sang along with Shaka the Zulu
And with the local bow and arrow, we ranted and hunted
As we went touring and scouring the heart of Mama Africa
Above Jos plateau and the limbo beyond the waters of Limpopo
Ashanti! Oh pretty mighty Asanti
Let her daughters dance the Adowa at Fomena
And let her heroes and heroines dance Kete flapping the Kente
In obeisance to her emperors and empress in the name of Africa
From the homely cities of Libri ville we strove through Brazzaville
The stations of Congo, Lesotho and the greeny hill of Swahilli
And in the heart of Ghana we saw the heroic paintings of Nkrumah
While through the shores of Elmina we foresaw El Minya in Cairo
Recounting the beauty of our geographical mama and her nomadic papa
In the lands of Eden while we strolled its blissful beautiful city garden
Recalling its days of slavery and recanting its shackles and manacles
As we stayed in the hysterical falls of mirth oh just a while along the Nile
