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FELA – Black President!
When it was dark his music talks to misery
When it rains his music shelters the homeless
He admonished the rich, powerful and reminded the poor to open eye
He was against injustice
He was against hell on the poor
He spoke truth to power with his trumpet
His poems were loaded with awareness
To see was to act
To walk was to move
To smell was to alert
Refusing to bow
Refusing to run
Refusing to hide
Proud to be African
Proud to be Black
Proud to stay put in the struggle
As he yapped about Naija
Yapping about Afrika
Yapping from another world – Kalakuta Republic
About what?
Its foolishness
Its injustice
Its greediness
Its stupidity
Its corruption
Its lassitude
It’s Ignorance
Its wickedness
Its close mind
Yes he became Black president!
Yes he birthed Afrobeat!
Yes The originator of Afrobeat!
Yes Afrobeat lives!
@copyrighted Echiakwelu
The CEO of Afripole, well written poem. Looks like you were with Fela at the kalakuta. That was Fela and what he stood for. Very in love with Africa. Knew the white man more than they can think. Advocate of justice and fatness. May his soul rest in. Peace.