Veritably, Taylor.

To all the brave Women walking bare foot on the dusty country roads,

To all the men scrapping a living with their bare hands,

And tied up in an unending cycle of back-breaking labor,

To all the brave peasants, men and women, and urban dwellers

Who die of old age at forty,

To all the freedom fighters whose lives have been wasted,

To all of you whose pain is unredeemed,

To you, perfect victims of History, whose only crime was to have been born

Here and Now,

May you have been the Last Cross Bearers of African politics  -Marc Adoux Pape