Pan-Africanism Why?

(To Dr Valentine Ndefru, In Memoriam)

They were all dressed in robes

As professors, Doctors and Lawyers

Yet they refuse us to graduate or progress

They watched their comrade stoned to death

But still gather in rooms, talking Pan-Africanism

He sold his brother to The Hague

Only because of a red carpet

He was in the game even before I was born

Today he is faced with a new world system

Yet Africans cry for loyalty

Has Pan-Africanism ever existed?

- Saron Obia