Sudan<\/p>\n
A black slice of land of an even blacker continent in need of a savior<\/p>\n
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Sudan,<\/p>\n
Covered in darkness, from the sable skin of it’s people\u00a0to their backward, dark-ages, unilluminated thoughts<\/p>\n
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Sudan,<\/p>\n
Ruled by gloom, riches wasting coated\u00a0with soot<\/p>\n
Foolish people following old traditions and blind religion<\/p>\n
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Cue the knights in shining armor,\u00a0ivory skin glowing in the bright African sun
\nMaking capes of their legislation\u00a0and slaves of\u00a0my people<\/p>\n
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“Divide and Conquer” and divided they made us<\/p>\n
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1956 came and we were once again free
\nBut free from the consequences we will never be<\/p>\n
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Embedded in our brains are their foreign ideologies
\nJudgement based on religion and race is now\u00a0our mentality<\/p>\n
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For you have paved the way for further corruption
\nAnd our women’s wombs new colonizers have erupted
\nTheir only aim to fill their pockets with the riches of the land
\nPreaching a false Islam we have never known
\nTwisting and manipulating words to fit their goals<\/p>\n
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And you claim to have brought civilization to our doors
\nBut what we knew before you is civilization you will never know<\/p>\n
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Have you seen my people before you came?
\nThe blood of the Kandaka* will forever run through our veins<\/p>\n
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*Kandaka: Ancient Sudanese warrior queens. The ancient Kush\u00a0kingdom of Sudan revered women and was considered a very sophisticated and civilized kingdom.<\/p>\n
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I wrote this poem as a response to the “Swallows of Kabul.” After reading the book, I was struck with the idea of colonialism and what it does to people. Being from a country that was colonized by the British, I can see first-hand the effects of this colonialism. It always strikes me how different things could have been if we were not colonized. How our morals and ideologies would have been if they remained untouched.<\/p>\n
In this poem I attempted to write, \u00a0I explore the false pretense that colonizers use to rob a\u00a0country of it’s sovereignty. We often hear of the west claiming that our part of the world is undeveloped, uncivilized and follows a religion that is backward in thinking. Through this poem I try to expose this false notion by referencing old civilized sudanese kingdoms. I also touch upon the consequences of colonization that are still felt today. Everything from the secession of South Sudan, to our twisted morals can be traced back to colonialism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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