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MY AFRIKA

NOBERT

MPOROTO

Poet and Author from Tanzania.

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THE CALL

TO MY ANCESTORS

onorable chairperson, wakeup call to all my fellow Afri- ricans nor South Africans, but as a
Ladies and Gentlemen, can brothers and sisters, sons and mass of African brothers and sisters
Academicians who are daughters, youths and elders. Coura- who shared the confronting history
Hhere present, African geously, it is also a dedication to ev- of this continent, where sons and
brothers and sisters and all other ery individual who strives to witness daughters of Africa were tormented
members of this assembly! Proto- the transformation of our beloved in terms of race and color of their
cols observed. Honorable Chairper- continent, and all these efforts must skin, depending on the interests
son, on behalf of my people, I really last longer to the unborn babies, of the forces behind them. And if
thank you for inviting me to be a the offsprings, and the embryos to that is not enough, Africa was then
part and parcel of this assembly, and receive the heartened reception that mounted to a civic crucifixion that
recognizing the potentials I possess could initiate the next part of strug- planted divisive seeds all over the
in addressing the ongoing nature of gle with an adequate definition. continent.
this continent. Aluta Continua… Today, we here gathered not because
Aluta Continua…The struggle must we are Tanzanians nor Ugandans, Assembling here today just to ded-
continue. Kenyans nor South Sudanese, icate this message to our enemies
Rwandese nor Burundians, East and hypocrite friends who thought
Precisely, this is not a meeting but a Africans nor Sub Saharans, West Af- the seed of hatred would divide us.

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