大象传媒

AFRICAN
by SONIA SULTUANE

You tell me I want to feel African,
You say and think that I'm not
Just because I don't wear a "Capulana"
Because I don't speak "Changana"
Because I don't use "Missiri" or "Missangas"
Let me laugh...
But who is it that told you?!
Just because I wear "Levi's, Gucci or Diesel",
I'm not...is that it?!
Is it that my feelings are shown by these trappings?
Or it is that,
By the blood that runs in my veins,
Black, Arabic, Indian,
This exotic mix
That makes me the daughter of a continent in many
Where everybody mixes
And gives me this deepness,
I am stronger than clothing and words
And you know why?
Because I dress, speak, breathe, feel and smell Africa.
So what can you know? What do you know?
Let me laugh...
Let me laugh...