ONE AFRICA

We’ve been through battle and we’ve been through the storm

We been through misery the slavery made we stronger

Many different nation, color and tongue

Africa is ONE

Your land I truly love

Tropical savannah to the mountain top

Zion on Earth, food abundant

Cradle of Birth, Great Rift alliance

Born in the west but I’m an African

My heart beats with the Atumpan

With strength and courage I know we can

Unite across the land…

Africa is One

Through the fire we hold it

Brown skin black all colors we are one

Spark of creation the first nation begun

Colonial aggression enforced by the gun

Rebel liberation with the fire and the drum

Many traditions essentially we’re one

Many religion but within we are one

So many languages Namibia to Senegal

From Cape to Cairo Gold Coast to Ethiopia

My blood moves to the rhythm of the sound

My head bows to the elders they surround

It’s the spirit world never dim it can be found

One common ground

Africa is One

Land of tomorrow

We fear no shadow

Black is the arrow

Great joy from sorrow

Footprint never shallow

Our heart nuh hallow

Unity must overshadow

Nurture I with the ancient wisdom

With the radiant light

With the mind

Grigamba Amhara Kwerekwere

Your desert holds the key

The blackness the common bond

Of our father’s land the mystery yeah

Africa is One

We’ve been through battle and we’ve been through the storm

We been through misery the slavery made we stronger

Many different nation, color and tongue

Africa is One

african gem

The richest continent is still condemned

Demoralized but yes we still contend

The blood of my ancestors we go heap pon dem

throw pon dem yeah

African Gem

Ah so they took our gold

Infinite riches untold

Yeah

Humiliation took it’s toll

And left a big big hole

Still they mine our soil

Everytihng from diamonds to oil yeah

Down in the Congo it’s coltan

Tungsten in Rwanda

Uranium in malawi land

Bauxite in Guinea and Chad

Platinum, zirconium

Iron ores, palladium

Treasures from Alkebulan …

African Gem

They want

Only One

Cotton and cashew from Benin land

Cocoa and timber Ivory Coast demand

Coconuts Tanzanian

White fish mollusk Namibian

Cattle and textile Botswana

Cocoa and Shea from Ghana

Cars and plastic South African

Tea and flowers from kenya land

Ghana with rice and shea

Coffee and spice Ethiopian

Sheep and goat from out of Sudan

Sawn and tool from out of Gabon

Rubber and ships form Liberia

Wheat and milk Out Algeria

No land could be richer

African Gem

Why is Africa so rich but poor

White supremacy and greed is at the core

More goes out than comes back in the door

The world revolves around African shores

Corruption and violence we will endure

Against the poverty life we ensure

Colonial downpression was just a detour

African greatness so secure

three wicked men

Three wicked men

I and I condemn 2x

Three wicked men

Down there inna Sheol

never to ascend

You You

Henry Morton Stanley we accuse

So we say   

You You

Violence will always follow you

Selling your own into slavery break the truce

Exploiting African women to be used

Plundering villages for ivory and canoe

Modern weapon made sure you never lose

From Zanzibar to the Congo gun rule

Too fond of money you never paid what was due

Illegitimate from birth you had much to prove

Can’t talk to women cause they don’t like you

CHORUS

You You

Leopold I and I accuse

So we say

got rich off of the Congo ruse

Forced labor mutilation was your motto

Misery and indescribable sorrow

15 million dead just to increase rubber cargo

Burning in hell now how the demon chuckle

Belgium benefited so the judgement must follow

You could have asked but you never waan borrow

Feel it’s your right to consume and swallow

Treaties broken and the tribal grave shallow

CHORUS

You You

Cecil Rhodes we accuse

You You

Justified your racist views

You believed your race was destined for greatness

And the more you inhabit is the better for those places

You underestimated the strength of African races

Architect of apartheid see the traces

White supremacy denying us of our own spaces

Despotism like India by the British graces

who is the supreme race but the one JAH never erases

Against all odd, Jah never replaces

black woman

Oh Black Woman 2x

You burn the fire on illusion (pollution)

You give birth to every nation

Oh Black Woman 2x

You Mother of Creation

For you I will always give thanks

Yaa Asantewaa warrior

Mother of many no comparing ya

You kept us safe us down in Kumasi

You asked them who is the Ashanti

5,000 by your side you commanded

War of the Golden Stool you liberate it

Exiled but not forgotten

You fire shot for all your son dem

CHORUS

For you I will always give thanks…

Nzinga of Ndongo

And Matamba in Angola

Defender of her people and

The Mother of Angola

Know in Luanda with the African pattern

From the Kwanza River to the Kavanga

Fierce and strong like a warrior

Queen of Mbundu never tarrier

Gun ammunition barrier

Portuguese sorrier ya

Golden Stool heavy Iyah

Stand up with the mother and the granny ya

Chorus

Mbuya Nehanda

Svikiro Zezura

Mhondoro of the Shona

Lead Chimurenga

Against the British South Africa

Cecil Rhodes never fear him now

Hera of the Dynasty Hwata

Zimbabwe they sing your song

Mwari messenger

500 years you live on

Lion Spirit inna Mutupa

Royal mudzimu birth Nyamhita

Inna Mazoe Nehanda

Break colonial chains asunder

For you I will always give thanks….