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Daughter of Africa Printable Version PRINTABLE VERSION
by ken, United States Sep 29, 2004
Culture   Poetry

  

At the crack of dawn
You are already worn
Day in day out
You wake up to toil and moil
Digging the diamond hard ground

Your man is a drunk
Everyday he drinks
Then comes back home
To beat you sick

No career for you
Education is a luxury
Only for the lazy ones-your brothers

You have been reduced
Reduced to nothing but a breeding machine
Now life is but a struggle
A struggle to feed and nurture
You’re ever increasing brood.

As you lament in silence
I dare ask,
For how long shall it remain like this?





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ken


I am a Kenyan studying in the US at Yale University.

I like IT... programming in particular

I'm also into world history and economics.
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