*Having spent the first eleven years of my life in the land where the first African ancestors were brought in chains to the Americas [1500-01?] from the homes of the Woolofs & Mandikas as well as Yorubas. By way of Dahomey bringing along Bantus & Congolese, giving me the spicy mix of Mama Africa's fiercest seed, I pay tribute to the land which maintained our legacy alive outliving its Indigenous hosts & tormentors [Spainiards, French & English]:
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AFRO-QUISQUELLA
[The land where I was born]
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Born in a tropical
Caribbean island
shaded by the blue heavens
blessed with the impressionable
beauty of its people
--
Santo Domingo Quisquella or
Hispaniola, - a treasured paradise indeed
ever so lovely a land
blessed always by the
sun setting within
--
Merengue, Sancocho and rum
I'm blessed to be your Native Son
My heart beating fiercely
to the rhythm of the drum
even though Africa forever lives inside my soul.
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J.S
PEACE
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AFRO-QUISQUELLA
[The land where I was born]
----
Born in a tropical
Caribbean island
shaded by the blue heavens
blessed with the impressionable
beauty of its people
--
Santo Domingo Quisquella or
Hispaniola, - a treasured paradise indeed
ever so lovely a land
blessed always by the
sun setting within
--
Merengue, Sancocho and rum
I'm blessed to be your Native Son
My heart beating fiercely
to the rhythm of the drum
even though Africa forever lives inside my soul.
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J.S
PEACE