I have a dream that someday my
fellow Africans will finally gain their independence, for they have never been
independent in the last 500 years from slavery, colonialism, neocolonialism,
Cold War dictatorships, and Post-Cold War tyrannies that have sprung like deadly
viruses across the African continent.
I have a dream that someday my
fellow Africans will learn that independence and freedom go hand in hand and
that an independent people is also a free people. I have a dream that my fellow
Africans will keep burning the torch of liberty, teaching their posterity to
always wipe any seed of tyranny from its very onset.
I have a dream that someday my fellow Africans will break the bands of slavery, yeah, the bands of captivity and that they will free themselves from their masters, yeah, those “career criminals behind presidential desks” who confiscate power, crush opposition, plunder, murder and reduce hundreds of millions of human beings to misery.
I have a dream that, like the Hero carved in marble, my fellow Africans will chant in unison: “Free at last, free at last!”
Jean Kapenda, 01/14/2015
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