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    Africa, Father, Life and Love: Words from the Heart
    Africa, Father, Life and Love: Words from the Heart
    Africa, Father, Life and Love: Words from the Heart
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    Africa, Father, Life and Love: Words from the Heart

    By John Olugbenga Olomolehin

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    This book is split into three sections.
    AfricaI was born and grew up in Africa. It is my beautiful motherland.
    Life and Lovethis charts the loves in my life, current and past.
    Fatherthis is a small chapter on my deceased father. He is my hero, the truly magnificent man I aspire to be.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPartridge Publishing Singapore
    Release dateFeb 21, 2018
    ISBN9781543743289
    Africa, Father, Life and Love: Words from the Heart
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    John Olugbenga Olomolehin

    John is a fitness professional born and raised in Nigeria, currently living in Dubai. Poetry has always been an artery through his life, charting the ups and downs of his daily grind like a journal. John is a talented wordsmith, seeking the truth of life situations through his poetry.

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      Africa, Father, Life and Love - John Olugbenga Olomolehin

      AFRICA

      WHAT IS AFRICA

      Is it the slaved strength

      Which farmed the fields of foreigners

      Or the scorched skin

      Whipped and wounded in the wake

      Tell me what africa is

      Is it the tropical sun

      Which crests our forests

      Or the fertility that floods the fields

      Africa, are you the GODS

      That ganged up and gave up

      In the cuffs of civilization

      Or their silence

      Which is mistaken for impotence

      Africa, are you not the specimens

      Extracted for experiments

      In the foreign lands

      And the recipient of their resultant

      Promises, policies and plagues

      Africa,

      The envy of the searching eyes

      Feeding the fantasies of foreign minds

      Educated and exploited

      Yet you cease not to stun the world

      With the preserves in your endless reserve

      That tell of your blessings

      As they stretch from the womb to the tomb.

      WOMAN

      Your battered beauty still

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