of the free labor provided.

Sans patriarchy, sans Imperialism

To the kings of the Dahomey

Of great atrocities, of great strife.

Of miracles of men and of miracles of women. Of beauty and ugliness

Priceless labor and wisdom and intellect and skill.

What of imperialism and colonialism? Capitalist expansion and dominion.

Meek values and morals. Vails of civility and servitude.

Slavery, serfdom, commodification entrapment. Contradictions of capitalism

and of Nature itself. Of good and of resource.

Price tags on hate and on weapons of hate. Commodification of war.

Commodification of values.

Commodification of ideologies. Commodification of war. Commodification of human kind. Commodification of nature.

Endless vortex, limited commodities.

And of labor? Of the skilled in the past and of the skilled in the present, exported and exporting.

Scorched land of the Nilotes and the Maghrebs.

Fertile fields of the Congos and the Guineas.

Great grasslands of the Zulus, of Zambia and of Zimbabwe.

I beg, have they not enough? Had we less than this?

In exploit, we idolize the false liberators. And praise the masters of our inequities.

Deceitful beacons of freedom and liberty.

In search of identity and self governance, we become puppets.

Merely cheap copies of true liberty and true freedom.

The ambitions of Leopold and of Stanley, the languish of Lumumba by Langley.