Unveiling Africa is so excited to announce what is sure to be an amazing event! We have collaborated with the Breath In Poetry Collective to put together a night of awe-inspiring spoken word and music.
Oral Tradition will be a night of story telling and testimony through the use of poetry and music. If you’re a lover of spoken …
Unveiling Africa
She’s clothed in rags
In a wrinkled wretched linen
So helpless and hapless
The bystanders watched
With little or no concern
Some laughed or scorned
Some gazed indifferently
Others even took advantage
Of Her pure despondency
Poor fragile soul, poor Her
Who‘d save Her soul?
‘Twas a horrible sight
No drop of hope in sight
She’s utterly forgotten
By all and Her relatives
Who indulge in indulgence
In a …
Hello All,
We continue to roll out the essay contest in Nigeria and have receive amazing support throughout the process! Check out this wonderful article by the Punch newspaper, on Unveiling Africa and the essay contest!
Nigeria at 50: Dreams and dreamers
By Abimbola Adelakun
Wednesday, 26 May 2010
As Nigeria reaches her 50th year as a country, a frenzy …
Mama Africa,
Like a son watching his mother struggle through the agony of death,
I stand helplessly with tears in my eyes watching your pain.
Raped naked of all your resources it is not right you are left with nothing but a sour name,
you would think the rivers worth of tears from the oppressed weak and poor,
that it would flood our hearts and minds with remembrance while replenishing your soul,