Wake up, Africa and take back your glory!โ
โGrowing up as a kid, my late grandmother would tell me tales by moonlight under a huge Iroko tree at the village square.
It was one of the few happy moments I had as a kid growing up in Kรฉra Bondokuy, Mouhoun Province, which was marked by hardship and poverty.
Those moments were marked with so much love for me and other kids, as we played under the crystal moonlight of mother AfrWake up, Africa and take back your glory!โ
โGrowing up as a kid, my late grandmother would tell me tales by moonlight under a huge Iroko tree at the village square.
It was one of the few happy moments I had as a kid growing up in Kรฉra Bondokuy, Mouhoun Province, which was marked by hardship and poverty.
Those moments were marked with so much love for me and other kids, as we played under the crystal moonlight of mother Africa, Burkina Faso, not realizing the task ahead of us to save Burkina Fasoโฆ we were just kids trying to be happy!
After every moonlit tale, before we dispersed to our various houses, Grandma would end her tales with, โMay The Great Pyramids of Egypt Grow In Youโ
I memorised those words in my memories, She didnโt watch me grow up to ask her the meaning because she would leave this world before my 15th birthday!
But growing up to understand Africa, I realised how deep grandma’s words were.
The pyramids remain the biggest proof that wealth and civilization started in Africa!
They couldnโt l00t/lift it to Europe to be kept in their museums as artefacts!
But it stands there ahead of time, from the very moment it all began, to remind you, as an African, wherever you are, that Greatness started from you!
Wake up, Africa and take back your glory!โ
Ica Burkina Faso, not realising the task ahead of us to save Burkina Fasoโฆ we were just kids trying to be happy!
After every moonlit tale, before we dispersed to our various houses, Grandma would end her tales with, โMay The Great Pyramids of Egypt Grow In Youโ
I memorized those words in my memories, she didnโt watch me grow up to ask her the meaning because she would leave this world before my 15th birthday!
But growing up to understand Africa, I realized how deep grandma’s words were.
The pyramids remain the biggest proof that wealth and civilization started in Africa!
They couldnโt l00t/lift it to Europe to be kept in their museums as artefacts!
But it stands there ahead of time, from the very moment it all began, to remind you, as an African, wherever you are, that Greatness started from you!
Wake up, Africa and take back your glory!โ
Wake up, Africa and take back your glory
