God Save Africa

Nkosi Sikelel' i-Africa

I seem to oppress the air.
Such powerful feeling clogs my heart.
O that I could loose my soul in words;
Is there no clothing here?

Come; enter the land my heart;
Its throbbing drums strain
With a teeming mass of black humanity
Who are slaves
Struggling, yearning, groaning, weeping
To be free.
Couldn't the Power of Love melt Baasskap's frozen heart
In its iron-hard cage of fear?
Couldn't Compassion's hand loose the chains
Of Greed and Race?
Africa's History cries,
And wipes her tears with Music;
But for that Creation's wasted force
Crushed and oppressed.
The hellish Sun cries to the Heart of Painful Ages:
"O shame on them who pawn a Nation's Soul".
O God; my love encloses every precious life
And hugs it dear.
Hear our prayers for them. For I love them;
They are of my kind.

Nkosi Sikelel' i-Africa (God Save Africa) is the unofficial National Anthem of black South Africa. Baasskap—White supremacy.

Barbara Wellman.