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16 October 2014
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Aziz Baako
Aziz Baako

Aziz Baako is a Writer/ Researcher and a recognized member of the Organizing Committee of the Ghana Association of Writers. He has coordinated, organized and directed several arts programs in and outside Ghana including; A one week poetry workshop for thirty Senior High Students selected during The King of Words Poetry Competition and also directed the final event on the 22nd of December 2007 at The Pan African Writer鈥檚 Head Quarters in Accra.

The Grace of my race by Aziz Baako

The pace of black race is laced with God鈥檚 grace,

It is amazing how we escaped disgrace

And years of degrade of our race.

I was near tears when I reflected the years of fear

In our minds that kept us behind and blind.

One time in a multiracial community

I was consumed in a fine rhyme

Of Hip hop lines filled with crime

Scenes created by the system.

Miming some of the fine

Lines that told our stories in anthems.

Then a blonde young woman looked at me with remorse

As if what she heard about our bonds are just rumors.

I am an American I hear The African has no honors?

She said with the sympathy of an ignorant being.

I decided to aid her with the information of our being.

I told her about how long we have been here,

I told her about the great years of Imhotep,

I told her about Memphis being the name

Of an old city in Africa

Before she was called

An American and way

Before I was called

An African.

I told her about Ethiopia and the Arch of the Covenant

I told her about the cold years of Alexandra the Macedonian.

I reminded her about the effects of slavery

And told her finally that

The pace of the Black race

Is laced with the Grace

Of God the Creator听



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