What do you do
when you lose your life’s love
one it took years
To find
that one
Find another
I don’t have that long
Get a dog
I had a cat
Be happy
How
Lost
Salt Lake
I laid down with you
you were naked
as though you had planned it
I wanted to spit buttons
to the far corner of the room
you said no and no
so I lay there between the sky
and a salt lake.
Africa
Africa, the “Mother Continent,” is the oldest inhabited continent on Earth. The Egyptian civilization is more than 5,000 years old. There were other civilizations in Africa before Egypt. Egypt is an African country. Its people are African.
Africa is home to more countries than any other continent in the world. These countries are: Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Sudan, South Sudan, Chad, Niger, Mali, Mauritania, Senegal, The Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Burkina Faso, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, Central Africa Republic, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Angola, Namibia, Botswana, South Africa, Lesotho, Eswatini, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Malawi, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda, Kenya, Somalia, Ethiopia, Djibouti, Eritrea and the island countries of Cape Verde, Madagascar, Mauritius, Seychelles, and Comoros.
The most populous country in Africa is Nigeria with 206 million people. The United States has 340 million people. There are 50 million people that identify as African American in the U.S. That’s roughly 15 percent.
DIVIDE AND CONQUER: Countries of the world continue to plunder Africa and it’s to the their benefit to strike deals and bully individual countries rather than work with a United Africa. Bully Economic Countries will keep Africa “Third World” forever. Just as those countries stole 15 million people from Africa and made them slaves, they will continue to keep Africa subjugated. Economic Slavery never ended.
You’re concerned with African history when you should be concerned with African future. A rising tide rises all boats. As the worth of African people rise so will the worth of the diaspora and blacks in America. We’re the orphaned children of Mother Africa. No great grandmothers or great grandfathers. No ancestral home. No real place to call home in America. Slavery severed ties and destroyed, erased and corrupted us forever. We are qualified as African-Americans. Is that another way to say 4/5s. We continue to build boats and sailing ships in anticipation of better seas.
“You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lies. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still, like dust, I’ll rise”.
Maya Angelou
Fried Chicken & Philosophy 