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Friday, 24 December 2021

Rejoice (Oh Ye Africans) - Gladys May Casely-Hayford

Rejoice and shout with laughter
Throw all your burdens down,
If God has been so gracious
As to make you black or brown.

For you are a great nation,
A people of great birth.
For where would spring the flowers
if God took away the earth?

Rejoice and shout with laughter
Throw all your burdens down
Yours is a glorious heritage.
If you are black, or brown.

Gladys May Casely-Hayford [Aquah Laluah] (1904 – 1950) Sierra Leone (born Gold Coast)
Source: Afrolit

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