Showing posts with label Africa. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Africa. Show all posts

Saturday 1 October 2022

AFRICA HAS ITS PROBLEMS

 

Africa has its problems

With the outbreak of Ebola

But spare a thought for

Every Little Englander

Who is exposed every

Summer to Tombola

Saturday 22 January 2022

A LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS

 

The despot Robert Mugabe

The thorn in Africa’s side

Is not what the world envisaged

At the end of the apartheid

 

What hope then for the continent

When such men prosper

Ruling with a fist of iron

Colder still than the white oppressor

 

Yet there will always be hope

Even if the good number but a few

When God puts upon the earth

A man like Desmond Tutu

Friday 26 February 2021

ONE FOR THE POT

 

Two missionaries are cooking in a pot

The natives are dancing round a lot

Every fifth circuit the dancers made

One man broke away from the parade

And with his club he hit a missionary

On the head which seems unnecessary

The chief is quite alarmed by all this

And demands to know what is amiss

“These men will be boiled and eaten

Why then do they need to be beaten”?

“Why do you keep hitting the edibles”?

“Because they’re eating the vegetables”

Thursday 8 April 2010

MANDELA

What makes Mandela a great man?
Was it that he opposed apartheid?
So what?
He wasn’t alone in that
That doesn’t make him great
That would make half the world great

What makes Mandela a great man?
Was it that he led the ANC’s military wing?
So what?
Not really the stuff of greatness
Just another bloody terrorist

What makes Mandela a great man?
Was it his twenty seven years in jail?
So what?
Murder and rape will achieve that
That doesn’t make him great

What makes Mandela a great man?
Was it that he symbolized the struggle?
A beacon against apartheid
So what?
That doesn’t make him great

What makes Mandela a great man?
Is it that he’s a nice silver haired old man?
With a warm affable smile
So what?
That could be my granddad

What makes him a great man?
Was it that he was the first black president?
Of a free South Africa
Very historic
But that alone doesn’t make him great

What makes Mandela a great man
Is his humility
His humanity
He could have spoken in vengeance
Yet he spoke of reconciliation
He could have evened the score
Balanced the books
For black South Africa
He could have unleashed
A black tide of death and destruction
Upon the white minority
Pay back
But he did not
Instead he spoke forgiveness
He could have been a Mugabe
And never relinquished power
But chose to serve only one term
Then handed on the baton
His work was done
His greatness set in stone