Poem: Far away África

By Gustavo Brito

WE are from África
In sacred Drops
That escaped silence

We are from there
Far away land
Of free blacks

We are the forgotten
Children that thrive
On thorns of love

We are you
But you don’t see us
Clearly in colours

Dr. (Santana Miranda) Brito, playwright, researcher, translator, educator, is currently a professor of English and Literature at the Department of Scenic Arts Production at Escola do Futuro do Estado de Goias em Artes Basileu Franca, Goiania, Brazil, with his areas of research spanning historical consciousness, Afro-Atlantic, Afro-Brazilian and ancestral memory and more

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