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WHITE SKIN, BLACK MAN.

So I fair?
Who come bad patapata?
I still dey try
Who come worst pass?

I yellow na im make me fair
My brother different so therefore E bad
Na you come good because you white
Thank God I manage fair, my own don better.

My sister, you no fit white sh`a try fair
If you no fit fly, shey you go still jump?
Take wig make you wear,see cream sef make you rub
No be God? Black na disease wey get drugs.

Thank you Oyibo, you too try for us
If no be you, we still for dey mad
Thank you say this blackness go soon stop
Thank you O, this madness go soon cure.

But no mind me O, I jus wan ask
No jus mind me at all, but why you dey tan?
If black so bad, why you like am.
E wan come be say na you sef dey mad.

Sorry O, but E dey somehow
You no like black but you wan black
Na white better pass, you born half caste
Which kain palaver come be all that?

Oyibo sir, abeg I know understand.
Master please help me explain
Jesus, God, Angel: all na white.
This your wayo sef, na today?

Everything wey black jus bad
Black magic, black leg, even black heart sef
With your skin like overall eczema,
Na you still wan dey criticize.

But me I never see person wey black before
Me na yellow, my wife brown, my pickin chocolate.
E come be like say na ya own brain black
you no see black but you think black, you imagine black.

So now who come black?
Your coat, your car, everything black
Dye you hair black, smoke your air black,
wear dark shade make you dey see black.

So bros, tell me who come bad.
You wan' come brainwash your slave:
"Black is beautiful"; "black n proud"
you forget say black na state of mind.

You don already black finish
You jus dey shame to talk am
But as you dey resist na ya sef you dey punish.
You wan black, you dey try, so claim am with pride.

Crazeman wey gree don already cure.
So go ask John Hawkins, ask Lord Lugard.
Who come kill my papa, who thief my land?
Black Man!



NEX.

ALL MY LIFE.

No one sees my pain
I'm always crying in the rain
and all my tears are washed away.
But so much sorry still remains.

Wish I could borrow me some joy,
a little happiness to keep me warm,
but where I seek there's only hurt
and I can't deny that I've been cursed.

The sun may shine and rain may fall
but ne'ertheless, there's still no luck.
I try to blame but it's no one's fault
the road I chose, I have to walk.

I sit and watch the days go by,
just waiting there till xI lose my mind.
I've loved and cried, I live to die,
I've carried this pain with me all my life.