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Last Updated: February 20, 2006 |
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1.
From the mountains of Sudan
I salute you heroines of the wild,
I heard your screams
When they mutilated your womanhood
Only to pleasure through these grisly bloodied knives!
2.
Ngithi I bow down to you angels of Afghanistan
For the scars you’ve endured,
Your tears were not in vain
When they stripped you naked and
Your beastly fathers feasted upon your flesh
Only to rip your wombs to conceal their atrocities!
3.
Hail goddesses of Nigeria
For fighting against misogynistic chains,
Walk tall on your blood drenched grounds
Where your sisters have fallen,
Stoned they were
For our very exoneration!
4.
To my Nubian queens of Egypt
Who have broken free from their veils of slavery,
You suffered silently
The slaughter of your girl child
Only to breed monstrosities
Who kept you bound for years to come!
5.
Jewels of China
For centuries we watched you
Bind your feet and cripple your souls
To please and pleasure your unworthy bastards,
Yet your endeavors remained unparalysed,
Exert yourself and walk talk today
For you’ve delivered those to come from the agony!
6.
Helele basadi of Botswana
For while they crudely denigrated your worth,
We watched your incoherent struggles
To break the silence,
But you remained humble and
Immerged proud women of stature!
7.
Ziqenye women of Bangladesh,
We silently stood
As you cried yourself to sleep
Envisaging your death,
The acid may have defaced
And annihilated your self worth
But it gave birth to our vindication!
8.
Jabula ntombi yom’South Africa
A new day has risen,
Stand poised and raise your iron fists
For you wept the ‘76 massacre
Kodwa inyembezi zabo
Brought salvation to the people of umzantsi!
9.
For the two zillion decades and
Two trillion tears,
Rise Up women of the world
For I stand proud!
© Mabu
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