Mother Africa

From the settlers
To us welcoming them
We treated them as visitors
They betrayed us yet we smiled

From the British coming, we treated them with hospitality
They hurt us yet we smiled
We got brutally beaten, killed, and treated like animals
Yet we smiled

Years of oppression, years of fighting and yet we still smile
Years of slavery and being humanly demoralized and yet we still smiled
The coming of democracy where blacks are into power once more
And yet we still smiled

We Africans are blessed with companionship no matter how bad you treat us
No matter the race black, white, Indian we are still one
My grandmother told me I need to know the past to conquer the future
We live with our oppressors but despite the past we still smile
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