By Dennis Okpoti
La Boni, Accra - 10 March, 2019
NAKED FACES (INDEPENDENCE DAY POEM )
They turned all our rivers to Gutters
And made all our leaders martyrs
They reduced us to three square meals a day
So we will love our chains ....
Intoxicating us with the mirage of freedom
Whiles colonizing our minds....
They led us to believe
That the more a culture modernizes they westernize....
So westernization is the bench mark for success...
They say Africa is a shit hole(Lakoo)
But they have forgotten who dug the pit 100 years ago...
When they came in with their empty merchant ships
And went with dozens of men packed like sardines....
We are a people lost to time.....
A culture gone extinct....
Go and tell the Okaikois
And the Otumfuos
That we bought freedom
With the currency of the neo-colonialists
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