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Our Glorious Past There was a time when we walked this earth With such glory such dignity We were in our own land And we were kings and queens, princes and princesses We held our heads high We were noble, a royal nation Ours was a land civilized So civilized we ruled with each other And not over each other There was religious liberty In the land of nobility 'til the raiders came And forced unto us what they call Christianity And our history? We wrote our own history And told our own stories It was as we lived it We gave civilization to this world We gave art, science and literature too But what have we got in return? In return we were robbed We fell into the hands of thieves And they hold today what we had yesterday This exchange was not our plan Why did we become servants, when we were rulers? Why is a stranger now our master? Remember now our history Way, way beyond slavery Remember now lest we forget Don't say the Middle Passage Journey was too horrifying and long To remember where we're coming from And think ourselves as mere descendants of slaves Forgetting the legacy our ancestors gave A culture so rich was to be passed on To Africa's children, heirs to the many thrones So many kingdoms yet we were not divided The land was ours The food and the resources it provided Medical science and astronomy Were all part of that legacy This is where our roots lie In things noble and dignified We have to go back to our roots Find out for ourselves what is truth We no longer accept your lies Bury them because the truth must rise A civilized nation did not come and find a nation of savages Savages instead came and found a civilized nation And stole what we had for documentation But they could not destroy our oral tradition. We've found what we have lost What was lost was stolen The history of our glorious past We've found it And now we reclaim it It's ours! |