I AM

• Nimi Jumapili, Grade 12
• Poetry
• 2018

I am the center of the world you see, but the greater runs through me like Rasta, Hindu, Islam and Christian.
I am the entire world’s nation.
I am the largest desert bigger than the US, The oldest known man, humanity’s first step.
I am the African elephant, the largest land mammal.
I am the cheetah the fastest land mammal
I am over three thousand languages, the world’s native tongues, native languages, colonial tongues.
I am the oldest literate civilization the element of discipline that build on the plantation.
I am the oils, diamonds, silver and gold, copper, iron crystals and coal.
I am the hot tropical fevvic weather the heat of the sun.
I am the music, the siren and the beat of the drums.
I am Yams, Jollof rice, Ugali, Injera and Assida.
I have been through evolution and even through genocide, the tragedy that is in my soul, but I escaped of hard times!
Now I am the roots that is stemmed from the north to the south to east and the west,
I am the rich soil that lies with the rest.
Therefore I am the fifty-four distinctive and at mostly known to all with one love.
I AM AFRICA.