Fifty years of whining!

Where are we now?
Guinea pigs of slavery
Murderers of our own blood
while we sing of freedom!

Now complacent and helpless
Pretense of humanity

Suffocating Pluralism

Covering to suppress

How we whine!

Of foreigners’ deeds
Decorations of covered crimes?

What are we doing different?

How they turn into their graves!
The great heroes of motherland
Who fought through mountains and valleys!
Thinking it will come to pass!

* The poet Uwineza Mimi Harriet, is a M.A Candidate in Peace and Conflict Studies at Makerere University, a blogger, an author and activist. She has co-founded a think-tank called Peace Associates Network Africa and works with a human rights organization in the Horn of Africa.