Taita: We Have Done It

By Audrey Vimbai Kanyera

Taita is a Shona word which means we have done it. Shona is one of the indigeneous languages of Zimbabwe.

• Language: English
• Publisher: BookBaby
• Release date: Apr 23, 2014
• ISBN: 9781483525945

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I am a daughter of the soil

Does it matter whether my hair is afro-natural, afro-relaxed or afro-stretched?

If my skin is mahogany, charcoal, caramel or ivory, does this make me less of an African?

Whether I eat with my hands or fine cutlery, I am your daughter

Why do you treat me like a foreign object in my own homeland?

I am a daughter of the soil.

I am a daughter of the soil

Why do you taunt me when I speak with a Western twang?

Why do you mock me when I adorn my African beads on fine silk?

Why do you ridicule me when I return home, no longer a caterpillar but a butterfly?

I will sing my birth right

I am a daughter of the African soil.

I am a daughter of the African soil

I sang I’m African yesterday, I rhymed Africa today, I will chant my birth right tomorrow

I rejoice my inheritance with fingers in my ears and happiness in my pocket

I praise my homeland with a poetic vibe in my dance

I call Africa home and home Africa

I am a daughter of the African soil cropped up from the Shona roots.

Soap and water

They asked me why

I answered soap and water

They could not understand why

My response was still soap and water

They wondered why

He could not spell soap and water

Yes, it was just soap and water.

She tried to raise a man

But not even soap and water