AFRICA - The Continent

AFRICA - The continent, not the country

Everyone speaks of it like it's all the same glory

So let me set the record straight..

It's not!

Dessert and dry lands mask the North

Arabic spoken; vivid through its roots

South is ocean and grass - the red earth of the 'mother land'

Center point you have the best of nature

Then there's the West, where knowledge rose to it's best

Take it East and you'll know how to feast

Except now its worn, stricken and in drought

Higher up flourishes the art of 'stealing from the assumed rich and still staying poor'

In the midst is AIDS plaguing the villages 

Raids and tribal wars - you know , divide and conquer

Education a commodity of the affluent

To find crime and bribery a normal day-to-day occurrence

This is AFRICA a land that became infested by uninvited savages 

Who enslaved, divided and tore apart only for their own advantages

This is why today, an entire land mass is unappreciated, as it's known only as "Africa" ...

Where the lions roam among mud and brick homes?

Yet its a land that has every precious stone and all of natures own

Once the best of beauties, now tainted and ruined

Left as the beast, brainwashed upon release

Downsized to one word, though it consists of 57 unions

'Africa' they say - a land stolen in the night and forgotten in the day 

A lil bit about AFRICA the Continent  - http://www.buzzle.com/articles/how-many-countries-are-there-in-africa.html