We need to appreciate Kenneth Kaunda more

"People easily forget and ignore a persons hard work, but you can never erase the past he created for the present you are living in"

Its been bothering me for a while now

Some people wonder why there free!!!

Why they have parties so strong that they can have freedom to vote for a president they want,

Some have forgotten the years spent in exile, to live among fellow Africans to be free.,

Not just a home away from home,

but a home and a family they can depend on,

a family they can be defended by the evils of a struggle for freedom,

I think some have forgotten, and many walk over the pain the struggles of our hero KK,

A man who risked everything for the love of helping people to be free,

Even the only family he called family "Zambia" people,

He risked his peoples love, to let others be free,

"why do you think food prices rose in the 80's in Zambia?

All borders where closed, all colonialist countries around us did not let Zambia export or use the rail way system out side its borders.

This is the price for the struggle of freedom,

How many leaders of today lived in Mtendere teaching, or in Lilanda with fellow Zambians?

Building a government of their own,

Building a future together for Africa to be Free,

Super K believes that "peace is humanity's most pressing priority",

Therefore the "people of Zambia must endure and continued to accept refugees from their neighbors",

I guess that's the price we pay for freedom.

and helping others be free.

But a thank you and recognition to the real people on the ground who worked hard would have been nice,

not licking leaders butt who don't understand or know what happened in the fight for freedom.

A great thanks to these freedom fighters:

Simon Kapwepwe,

Jomo Kenyatta,

Samora Machel,

Patrice Lumumba

Steve Biko,

Desmond Tutu,

Josina Machel,

Julius Nyerere,

Kwame Nkrumah, 

Agostinho Neto,

Robert Mugabe (even if he has messed up, we cannot erase what he did too)

Che Guevara (the work he did in Congo DRC)

Remember: "People easily forget and ignore a persons hard work, but you can never erase the past he created for the present you are living in" 

I am truly hurt today as a Zambian

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PS: naimwe abena Zambia, Muleke ifyaupuba, tampeni ukutasha abantu benu!!

Thoughts (Poem 2012)

I haven't done one of these in awhile, but the clashes in Kenya makes me wonder:

Thoughts
4:00am 23/08/2012


What defines traditions, language and what you see?
Who decides the thoughts you make about people?
The perception to hurt, kill and harm women and children?
Who teaches you to hate? Why do you fight against one another?

It still puzzles me every day,
To see people killing each other,
I hate the African mind post independence,
I hate the African mind post slavery,
I hate the African Mind when it come unity,
I hate this shit called Xenophobia and ethnic clashes,

is Africa really a better place???

I hate these African politicians,
I hate these young African rappers, who want to be GANGSTER,
I hate these innocent girls that want to call themselves BITCHES,
I hate them ALL!!!
Who do you think you are?
I hate the fact that you are a FREE African!!!
Because you are an ignorant AFRICAN!!!

I love Patrice Lumumba,
I love Steven Bantu,
I love the mind that wants to bring people together,
I love young entrepreneurs struggling to bring this continent up,
I love the women breaking stones on the side of the road, just to make money,
I love the women who wake up early and go get their hustle on and feed their kids,

So it makes me wonder sometimes,

I wonder what makes a Kenyan hate a fellow Kenyan,
I wonder what makes a Sudanese hate a fellow Sudanese
I wonder what makes a Zambian hate a Congolese,
I wonder what Makes a South African hate foreigners,
I wonder what makes you see the world the way you see it,
I wonder what makes an African hate an African,
I wonder what morals make the woman you are!
I wonder what morals make the man you are!!!

But are you really a Woman? A Man? A Leader?

Do you deserve to live the life you living?
Do you deserve to be treated with respect?
Do you deserve the pain, sweat, and death people faced for you to be free?

But most importantly,

Do you deserve to be called an African?
You Decide...

AFRICAN DREAM © 2012