African Minds In a Box

African mind thinks in circular shapes in a box Freedom of expression cut in miserable pieces Rights deleted from the hard drive discs Children offered fish in schooling as education Ask me; how can the African be African? Never in this generation is answer available More; mindset is framed, re-framed and fowled Injected with doses of imported confusion as virtue New generations taking old mantles in blind loyalty Doom looming and booming without wings to fly State to me; can such mind make African, African? In a happy mood there’s pessimistic optimism Not later but soon Africa can recover the lost glory Assured is a bright but self-made future for Africa Being a heavily enslaved, colonized and tortured race Opaque foreign policy is the answer to development Xenophobia, other phobias must be buried though