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T.I.A - This Is Africa

A lot of blood flows from the land of milk and honey, A lot of blood as well as tears; and they shall wash it down with money. The rivers ran dry a long time ago and no signs of rain can be seen from the clear blue sky, nothing flies around except for vultures and military planes from a distant nearby; death has grabbed everything in its way and left behind a pile of reckless desolation: An abomination to the land, a land where sleeping dogs lie without even knowing the truth and its coherence thereof: T.I.A. A lot of milk and honey flows from the land of blood,  Packaged in boxes and tins for export; its taste elusive to the children of the land! Child soldiers, whose fingers are more adept at pulling the trigger of the gun than picking up maize meal, float around at the mercy of greedy goons camouflaging under the quest for liberation; The distributaries of Abundance and Plunder merge and spill over into one crimson flood. Long sleeved and short sleeved amputees t...