we bounced out of the egg
in a minuscule zone
worth
wealth
in a miniature of Africa
doomed to
the depth by pied tongues
we stand
at akimbo
and see fly away our timbers
and spot
machines
drain dry
our oil
and dig deep
our diamond
and see everything
worth us worsen
and perceive no trappings of innovation
just the vanishing of our opulence
in this darkest
of continents
in a large mighty world
created by jehovah
from far across
the sea two fair men
came saw and conquered
but from same
womb we drove them
after they dropped
a
knife
and
carved us into
French and English
from the same womb we
were given life
yet I’m an inferior
Nanche Billa Robert (20th century) Cameroon
Source: Free Verse
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