I asked the teacher
To teach him
My son
All about Africa
But she says
No suitable books
See our age
See the stage
We have reached
As a continent
But visit a nursery
The books
The toys
The tongue
All are imported.

My countrymen
How can indigenisation
Survive without the mind
Africa is a jungle
They say,
Why import a ladder
Into a jungle?
Well you can now see
For yourself
The economic hypocrisy.