AFRICA! RISE FOR PEACE

Africa, oh, Africa

Your great grandchildren call on you today
Your ear to us attention pay
Unto you our burdens lay
Under your peaceful shelter we stay

Our mother you cleverly christened Gold Coast
Yes, the Coast of Gold
To perfectly describe her glory
You patiently cared for her
Developing that artistic curvaceous beauty
Black is beauty, you told her
Your handiwork it was
You adorned her with all precious minerals that there is to be found
Yes, a perfect name indeed it was

Even in your decades of servitude
In your humbling attitude
You maintained your pulchritude
This, I am certitude
And a perfect peace, you had in plenitude
Basking in absolute enjoyment
A state of tranquility, indeed it was
You filled her with several languages
What an outstanding multi-cultural diversity
Multiplicity, agreed
But all truly in unity

Mother Gold Coast
Though an illustrious son changed your name
You never waned in your fame
Oh! Your glory of royalty you have continued to enjoy
He called you Ghana

“Ghana, our beloved country, is free forever”
Indeed, deafening applause welcomed this declaration
The declaration of freedom that fateful night
“Our independence is meaningless”
He told us
“Unless it is linked up with the total liberation”
And emancipation
Total Liberation of Africa
Oh! How we love freedom

But, how can we be free?
How can we be free without peace?
“To be free [really] is not merely to cast off one’s chain”
Africa’s illustrious son again
Let peace rain
I say, let peace reign


It is in peace, we live
Not in pieces
When a country of peace turns into pieces
Who loses…?
When a country of riches turns into ashes,
Who misses…?

Let not Ghana’s peace spill
Let Ghana peace fill
As we swallow the tranquilizing pill

Children of Africa, we love peace
Children of Ghana, we love peace
THE END

By Joseph Appah
(A Professional Corporate & Social MC)