![images.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmdQV5VaKRujHZAdv1ZBi8oCKLvAUAkJvGsXTKbNJaJoiF/images.jpg) --- ### _Young Africa's Plea_

Don't preserve my customs At some fine curios To suit some white historian's taste There's nothing artificial That beats the natural way In culture and ideals of life.

Let me play with the whiteman's ways Let me walk with a blackman's brains Let my affairs themselves sort out.

Then in sweet rebirth I'll rise a better man Not ashamed to face the world. Those who doubt my talents In secret fear my strength They know I am no less a man.

Let them bury their prejudice, Let's them show their noble sides, Let me have untrammelled growth, My Friends will never know regret And I, I never once forget. ####

_By Dennis Osadebay_

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