Should we, brother? — Obynna Chylekezi

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Should we, brother?

Should we, should we brother
Continue to agitate for human rights
When we’d asked for human rights
They gave us wormy rice!
An’ when we’d asked why?
They gave us bullets
In the boulevard of Liberia, of Togo,
Of Cameroun
All over Africa
Should we continue O’brother
Should we have a feeling of power,
of freedom, of liberty
Should we then ask for human rights
Not minding that
Demon in them ‘ll be crazy
‘Cos of our democratic guest
What do we benefit
From our tax money but bulllets
Should we be manly enough to ask
Why?
police brutality from political bru-
tality.

Obynna Chylekezi

EDITOR’S NOTE

Originally published in Citizen on 24 Jun 1991, p. 40. This diplomatic transcription preserves the wording and lineation visible in the archived page.

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