Akala – Maangamizi Lyrics
Lyrics
Hook x2
- How many lives have we lost to the Maangamizi
- It's way bigger than the pain that I place on the CD
- If I told you all the truth would you really believe me?
- It's the Maangamizi, It's the Maangamizi
Verse 1
- Maangamizi, meaning African hellacaust
- Because we paid a hell of a cost
- And don't really know what was lost
- And the process ain't ever stopped
- Since black civilization dropped
- Through internal greed and external plot
- Same ones that taught the Ancient Greeks
- Greece and Rome helped to bring to their knees
- Then Islam spread across Northern Africa
- With slavery and massacres
- Too many hurt, refused to convert
- Spread South and West and people dispersed
- Christianity is not alone in using
- Race and religion for power to expand
- Desert caravans took slaves across Sand
- Where they staged a revolt of the Zanj
- Enemies always invented mythologies
- Curse of ham, so-called prophecy
- After the migration
- There was some reinstatement of autonomous nations
- Then floating on the waves of the seas
- Came a plague, a genocidal disease
- With arms and heads, they looked like men
- Really they were just dogs on two legs
- When they first came some of our people said "Go!"
- Most welcomed them into our homes
- We didn't know they had hearts of stone
- Frozen by Western Europe's cold
- Also, there were scumbags among us
- Willing to work for white conquerors honours
- And with that collaboration
- Began the largest forced migration
- In the history of nations
Hook x2
- How many lives have we lost to the Maangamizi
- It's way bigger than the pain that I place on the CD
- If I told you all the truth would you really believe me?
- It's the Maangamizi, It's the Maangamizi
Verse 2
- How many millions dead at the bottom of the ocean?
- Thrown overboard like property stolen
- Or jumped overboard rather than be sold on
- A mother with her baby in arms, hold on
- What awaited was not just enslavement
- But a genocidal impulse craving
- They committed unspeakable abuses
- To make a nigger from an African human
- Took a woman ready to give birth
- Tied her limbs to four posts held firm
- In a main square made every slave watch
- Covered her in raw meat
- Let off a pack of dogs
- If anyone watching, even a relative
- Made a sound, kill them for the hell of it
- This was every day, not the exception
- The science of gynaecology was perfected
- On black women, no anaesthetic
- They said a nigger bitch couldn't feel pain, pathetic
- Hang a man from a tree cut off his penis
- Force people to eat their own faeces
- Put people in zoos, in a cage
- Chimpanzee, black human, ape
- And it was upon this here atrocity
- Europe became the dominant economy
- Now they play games, pretend it's about names
- It's a scheme for unequal trade
- Imagine the largest companies today
- If all of their employees got no pay
- For all of the centuries profit was made
- Black skin was always branded slave
- Even the child of the masters rape
- Could be killed or sold because black blood in her veins
- But the ancestors fought back, got free
- Probably have not heard of Jean-Jacque Dessalines
- Probably don't know the Haitian revolution
- Caused the French to sell half of America
- Nor know the role that Africans played
- In the Civil War for that same America
- If you ain't heard of Nanny of the Maroons or Boogle
- You probably believe what they told you
- But if they set Africans free
- Because all of a sudden they grow a conscience
- Tell me this,
- Why were the slave masters given compensation,
- And those that suffered not given a thing?
- Why did they then invade Africa?
- And make Africans slaves in their home?
- With the Belgians killing 10 million
- Souls in the Congo alone
- Why then Jim Crow, why Apartheid?
- Why did Black Wall Street burn that night?
- Why collaborators will work for such evil,
- Willing to be tools against their own people?
- Why Africom? Imperialism for the new age
- But with a brown face on it
- That's right imperialism for the new age
- But with a brown face on it
Hook x2
- How many lives have we lost to the Maangamizi
- It's way bigger than the pain that I place on the CD
- If I told you all the truth would you really believe me?
- It's the Maangamizi, It's the Maangamizi
Verse 3
- Some will try their best to justify this torture
- By asking you who the slaves were brought from
- As if we do not know, tell them "Get the hell out
- Every genocide ever has had sell outs"
- And the largest wars of humans
- Were fought between the people of Western Europe
- So by your rationale it's cool to kill Frenchman
- They killed Germans that look like them
- Absurd right? But when your skin is white
- Different set of rules you can abide by
- Dark suffering is not humanized
- No surprise, we still see ourselves through their eyes
- Darkies became legally human
- During the course of our parents life
- And the freedoms we have only occurred
- Cos our ancestors spilled their blood to the earth
- They changed that much? Are you so sure?
- The world's darker people still the most poor?
- So it's our task to put an end to this
- Even those like me with our heritage mixed
- If a knife is in your back 9 inches
- And it's only been pulled out six
- When the wound starts healing
- And we stop bleeding and bleaching
- Can it begin to fix?
- When the plague of self hate
- Is no longer a weight so great
- Push you to kill one another
- When we put a stop to false charity
- That gives with one hand and bombs with the other
- When the IMF and World Bank, along with their puppets
- No longer strangle our nations
- When the invaders don't have military bases
- In so many places
- When the jail cells are not packed with black backs
- And the gats and the crack are no longer factors
- When we celebrate true self-determination
- Not a few token bit part actors
- When the truth is told and there is
- The dignity to remember the dead
- Because as long as they are distorting the past
- It means they have the intention of doing it again
Hook x2
- How many lives have we lost to the Maangamizi
- It's way bigger than the pain that I place on the CD
- If I told you all the truth would you really believe me?
- It's the Maangamizi, It's the Maangamizi