So They want us Hooked on drugs And alcohol So we can never Comprehend the all Well I’m no nigga And I know My rights And I Want Justice Tonight They say My father was a failure For their Foolish appetites For their F***ed up reasonings And Babylonian delights So we keep Seeing Afrika’s memory By the fading candle lights Dangling twisted pictures Of Niggas f***ing you sistahs We create Lazy babies Full of if’s and maybe’s Conceived crack crazy Spreading black rabies As Whores of Babylon We instigate the cravings And A perpetual sickness has spread And so Afrika refuses her bread And she can’t eat While her children weep So Stop killing the Afrikan And You bastards Can get the f*** Off the planet Don’t you ever Take life for granted I’ll show you The curse of the ancestors
A further collection of poems, many from years in the Middle East, but also the California San Francisco and Central Coast areas (Santa Cruz, Carmel, Big Sur, Berkeley, etc.).
Still Living on my Feet is the follow up to Tichaona Chinyelu’s first book, In the Whirlwind, which was rooted in a sense of hard-hitting revolutionary black love. However, in this sophomore effort, Tichaona brings the revolutionary essence from deep
My book of poetry is being redone by me, I have a beautiful cover designed and the book will have a few more than 200 poems in it. I am going to have it printed on demand here in Canada. When it is done I will let you know when it is done and if anyo