-WHO IS THIS AFRICAN WOMAN-
-WHO IS THIS AFRICAN WOMAN- Who is this African Woman? Don’t muzzle the ox, which thread on the field. The African hope deserves hope. Blood and pain for the girl of dark skin. Worthy damsel of blackness. Test her worthiness by infibulating; Break her softness with the cow horn. Force her maturity in streaming tears and racking pain. This is the African woman. Who is this African Woman? Mother of a continent, yet without formal content. Strip her dignity by the brutal thrusts of masculine savagery. Helpless and hopeless, confine her to soothe. Eyes breaming with smoke, interlaced with tears that don’t flow, She blows the coal of supper, yet this night she must feed her body. This is the African Woman. Who is this African Woman? Education is not her price, maternity is. Bouncing with hope, she toils the field without hope. I am a woman, I deserve life to l