My African Child

My African child, she's resilient, she is strength, she is black and beautiful and proud

My African child, she knows not of colour and discrimination

My African child, she is young and radiant and youthful

My African child! She is love

My African child, my afro lover, may her hair rise like the fists of warriors before us

My African child

She is one with the land, she calls it home, we call it Africa

My African child, she knows no limits, no fear, she is free

My African child, her skin is gorgeous, "Look Mommy, I am browned" she says with pride

I teach her to love herself and others, for she is the future, a better tomorrow

My African child

She is the hope for a unified world, untainted, she knows of love and respect for others

My African child, I raise you to be everything you want to be and more

My African child, the world is your playground, as my father once told me

My African child, the world is yours

Africa is yours

My African child!