There is slavery in Mauritania - Alexander K. Opicho

There are black slaves in Mauritania

Indentured Patel Slaves in India

Black Slaves in Mali

Black Slaves in Nigeria

Black Slaves in Niger

White Slaves in Russia

Muslim slaves in Senegal

There are black slaves in Mauritania.

Today, December 2013

There are black slaves in Mauritania

serving the white Berbers

Toiling from morning to late evening

working under desert sun like soulless beasts

with no single pay, with no human dignity

there are black slaves in Mauritania.

Let us all go slowly and slowly to fight

In the Islamic city of Nouakchott

To demolish evil monuments of slavery

With our entire human might let us fight

With our blood, sweat and soul

Fight slavery the human vice in Mauritania

Free them all black slaves

Black moor, black Africans, Afro-Mauritanians,

From the shackles of slavery to white Berbers,

There are black slaves in Mauritania.

There are women in slavery in Nouakchott

Herding camels and goats, donkeys and mules

Black women raped in the field alongside animals

Enslaved women raped in the field as children look

Black women raped in the field as goats and sheep watch

Black women of Mauritania are in deep tribulation

All their pregnancies a protégé of white rape

No child of love, wedlock or out of romance

There are black slaves in Mauritania

There are a million black slaves in Mauritania

Some know of their fate some know not

Their doom of chattel slavery

Where man is sold away like a wooden spoon

Away to a willing buyer a slave is sold

Away to a fellow slave master man is sold

As a wedding gift or a birthday token

There are black slaves in Mauritania.

When a white Berber king dies

The journey before him is long and arduous

The journey to heaven is long indeed

He can’t go alone he needs a hand

Two live slaves are buried along with him

The slave master the white Berber

To provide hand and service to the master off to heaven

There are black slaves in Mauritania.

In the city of Nouakchott Muslims enslave Muslims

Against the holy law of Mohammed,

As long as they are black Africans and moors

Islam is neither fortress nor succor for them

Against the racist urge for enslavement

White Berbers the rich of Nouakchott

Enslave Black Muslim and half Black Muslim

There are black slaves in Mauritania.

It is true the god of Christians and Allah of Muslims

Owe apology to enslaved black humanity

God and Allah should apologize to Africanity

God said Jews can kill a non-Jewish slave, no sin

killing a Jewish slave is sin

Jews only to be slaves for seven years

That slaves, venerate your masters

That non-Jewish slaves are in life slavery

Their sire slaves of the master

Jewish slaves give birth to children

Non-Jewish slaves give birth to slaves

Allah said, Muslim can enslave all non-Muslims

O! Africa! There are black slaves in Mauritania.

Liberated slaves of Mauritania go back

In the sand dunes and dents of slavery

Teach your folks both master and slaves

The fruit of freedom from religious utopia

Tell the slaves to ignore the Quran and the Bible

For these are handmaids of slavery

Stupid bliss, blind faith, O! Archaic pusillanimity

there is black slaves in Mauritania.

Let the slaves read and teach others to read

Fanon Omar the son of Algeria

Walter Rodney son of Guyana

Aime Cesaire son of the North

Ousmane of Senegal the wood of Islam

Amilcar Cabral the verdant cape

Malcolm X and Paul Freire, pedagogy of slavery

Marcus Garvey and The black souls of W Dubois

There are black slaves in Mauritania

For me and my house I stand for freedom

For me and my house I stand for human dignity

For me and my house I stand for diversity in humanity

For me and my house I will never enslave a fellow human being

For me and my house I’d better serve Marxism down to infinity

Rather than flirt with christo-islamic glorification of slavery

Slaves in Mauritania have tyranny of numbers over the Berbers

Stand up and fight the few slave drivers in Mauritania

There are black slaves in Mauritania

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Alexander K. Opicho [Alexander Ernesto Khamala Namugugu Opicho] (21st century) Kenya

Source: African Writer, May 6, 2014