Alkebulan Lyrics by ROSA REE

Afrika

My child

I want you to know that you are royalty

You are strong

You are brave

You are rich

And everything that was put within you

Was never by chance but by purpose

Now rise and take your rightful place on the throne

You thought we got our freedom

Well think again

Just coz we're not picking cotton don't make us free my friend

If we don't open our eyes it will never be over

They eat our food at our table while we take their orders

How are we poor when we export to you what makes you rich

Give you our minerals but we swimming in debt like fish

I give you gold and copper and cobalt and the diamonds

But still I have to use your currency ‘cause mine is worthless

Brought us diseases and told everyone they came from us

Now they bring medicine that makes us sicker than we was

Force us to school to teach us that our culture is evil

Herbal medicine's voodoo yet they hold the doll and needle

Said they discovered our lands when they invaded us

Stripped us of our humanity but we're the savages

Made us forget our ways and our languages

Sold our leaders new colonialism as independence

Afrika

Yes I believe in Afrika

Afrika

Yes I believe in Afrika

Afrika

Yes I believe in Afrika

Tukiacha kuwaza na matumbo

Tutafika mbali kuliko

They came to kill to steal and to destroy our people

Cut off the hands and feet of five year olds in Congo

Ripped our families apart and sold us like we're goods

The healthier the better for them coz the money good

They made our brothers sleep with their mothers to breed more slaves

They sodomized our chiefs in front of our children

Call us animals to justify what they do to us

Now they say those are bygones, we shouldn't make a fuss

Turned us against each other but who's the true enemy

We are one they do to you what they do to me

Sold us the American dream that's a fallacy

But come here for vacation because it’s heavenly

Afrika unite, This time we rise

We are called to finish our forefathers fight

Time to take our throne and claim what's our right

Our road to freedom, what a time to be alive

Afrika

Yes I believe in Afrika

Afrika

Yes I believe in Afrika

Tukiacha kuwaza na matumbo

Tutafika mbali kuliko