This goes out to all my immigrantsSpecifically the Africans, my brothers and sistersWho wish to find a peace of mindLiving life in a foreign countryStruggling to find a balance between natural ethnocentrismAnd a need for assimilationTrying to stand out but blend in with the populationConfusion coz your culture is proud oneProdigal sons of a fading nationPassionate about conservation but preservation comes at a priceCoz for a slice of the pieYou got to let a piece of it dieQuestions, like why? Why can’t it be both, why choose?Why not have both the old and the new?Taking on a role that’s alien to youin the hopes that you will be understoodHypocritical ‘cause everything you stood for is beginning to changeAnd this strange place is starting to feel like homeBut you’re struggling to remember where you’re fromSee there’s a love still burning, steady in your chestThe Motherland’s pulse is still beating in your chestAfrica lives in each breath that you takeLake Victoria’s waters flow through your bodyYou embody the fierce heat of the SaharaSisters and brothers, realize that you are descendants of a rich heritageAnd ages from now you will still beA child of wise kings and queensYou inherited a legacy, destiny is realized in your lives dailyYou are opportunity seized, designed to succeedA mockery of all of your adversaries, you diminish your impedimentsYou are an establishment of strengthYou are why I’m proud to be African! Ends
