Poets' Corner
Song for Angola
The "Fazenda-Lufige"Coffee plantation in Angola
Displayed heads of "unruly" African
Who got napalm
From NATO
To burn the liberators
From the bush
The same napalm
Amerikka used to melt the skin
From the children of Vietnam
But when the faces
Of the Black Man emerged
And His might collected
Were we not unconquerable?
And when the faces
Of Nzingha's daughters
Our Women,
Rose like goddeses of War
All Africans saluted -
Liberatadoresi!
And the Warriors of Angola
Rattled their guns,
Their fire-spitting spears
And reclaimed another piece of Earth
In the triumph of a bold tradition
Well then,
Did Angola do likewise
And display the heads
Of "unruly" Europeans
On the coffee plantation
"Fazenda-Lufige"?
Lasana M. Sekou,
Staten Island, New York
