Meeting on the hill
By Mark Heathcote
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A hand up brother, a free man's gift
we can share this summit in a handshake
it's barren; nothing to steal here or take,
there's no dividing line, African Rift,
nothing here to fight over and conquer
'so let us parley with one another
as if we're two kings' and discuss sulphur
ore and lumber, and who is the squatter?
And spin a revolver; I own Ghana,
you, Tanzania, I Mozambique
whose women are beautiful and mystique.
We will fight for Sudan-the-Savanna
one-day-soon I will kill you, blood brother.
Steal your wives and make them my lover.
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The way the so-called
The way the so-called 'developed world' looks upon Africa, as if they were playing real life Monopoly with it. Words well put together to describe an endlessly tragic situation.
Turlough
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