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April 29, 2025

A Borderless Africa

Yemi LAWAL

We are all citizens of Earth—

The soil beneath our feet

echoes the truth

of our brotherhood.

Yet walls have names,

and names have wounds.

From Cairo’s call to Cape Town’s hum,

we are one drum

echoing in many tongues;

The fabric of our beauty

has become the chains

of our unity.

The slight difference in

our tongue has become

the very monster that

kills our oneness.

No line drawn by colonizers' pens

can erase the rhythm in our bones.

No flag is holier than the soil beneath our soles.

Imagine—

passports n' visas replaced

our open palms,

and borders melts

racism into our

flavour of brotherhood.

A borderless Africa is not a dream—

it is a memory returning,

an anthem unfolding,

a future unchained.

We are not nations stitched apart—

we are a single heartbeat

in the body of Earth.

We are all citizens of Earth first,

Before the colour of our skin.