SANKOFA

“se wo were fin a wosan kefa a yenki”

Come together I people
Yeed the ancestors’ call,
Wait not till our
Backs are against the wall,
‘Tis time to retrace our steps
Return an’ fetch,
Revisit the ancient rites
Of Kemit,
Retrace the forgotten path
An’ pick up where we have
Left off,
Let’s move to the future by
Taking from our past,
Mend and reconcile where
Things have fallen apart.

UMOJA I people
Yeed the ancestors’ calling,
It’s time for unity,
It’s every man’s duty
To know where he stands,
Remember African man
Can’t give away a continent
For an island,
Melanin man
Move away from
The sinking sand,
Nubians in the Diaspora
Aluta Continua.

Africa awaits its creators
Repatriating from
Distant shores and borders,
Woman, man and children
Unto Itiopia stretch forth I n I hands,
Together in communal bond
One for all, all for one
That’s our song
Affirmations of the Nubian
It’s a liberation procession,
Dubbing redemption songs
No more singing by the rivers
Of Babylon.

Forward proceed
Hailing the man of the east
With his children and queen,
Supreme beings reunited
Through the doors of no return
I’m making my entrance
Now for sure fire got to burn
Nyabinghi purification,

Blacks in the diaspora
Where you at
Move from the white man’s table,
Stop, stoop and squat
Time to get back to black,
Take a stance embrace
The mother land,
With all her problems
We are her solutions,
She awaits her creators
Carried beyond the shores
Of Europe and the Americas.

Sankofa here I come
Through the door of no return
Reclaiming the I n I
Freeing my mind
From the Uncle Tom mentality
I’ve seek, found and re-instated
My lost identity.