Africa my home Where the sun’s never brighter Warming up the backs Of our soldiers our fighters We the descendants Of such an inheritance Gifted with beauty Power and intelligence Threw it away Those are the sad facts This is our day When we all need to come back Renew what was taken The past we’ve forsaken Start looking ahead Got a new way of thinkin’ Africa my palace Such wondrous treasures Blue and white diamonds So many gems you can’t measure Apart from what’s under our feet Everything tastes sweet Passion fruit in our trees Lion fish in our seas So if you love Africa Lemme hear you holla The rich continent Where we live under a dollar But my dollar’s blingin’ Forex it for shillings Dine like I’m royalty And I still got change jinglin’ Africa my own Land of my father’s toil This is my motherland Love the colour of your rich soil I see it on my own hands Dark like my ancestors Quit blaming all our pain On the way that they left us Not saying we forget I just want a reaction I’m tired of complaining Time to put into action What Mandela, Kagame Have put into our hands Each corner of the continent Make me proud to be an African
