Martin Luther King, Jr was an
American Baptistminister, activist,
humanitarian, and leader in the African – American Civil Rights Movement. He
was born in January 15, 1929 and was assassinated on April 4, 1929.
Rejoice and shout with laughter Throw all your burdens down, If God has been so gracious As to make you black or brown For you are a great nation, A people of great birth For where would spring the flowers If God took away the earth? Rejoice and shout with laughter Throw all your burdens down Yours is a glorious heritage If you are black, or brown.
AFRICA BY R.E.G. Armattoe ( Dedicated to Mne. Leony Armattoe) I once saw a maiden dark and comely, Sitting by the wayside, sad and lonely. Oh! Pretty maiden, so dark and comely, Why sit by the wayside, sad and lonely? ‘I am neither sad nor lonely,’ she said, ‘But living, sir, among the deaf and dumb; Relentlessly watching this shameless dead, Makes my warmth heart grow very cold and numb.’
This book has eleven chapters and we shall take it from one chapter to another. In chapter one, Madam Bisi gets to meet Akin for the first time, as the writer puts it: Madam Bisi went towards the tree where the crowd was gathered. As she approached , her ears were thrilled by the most exciting drumming she had ever heard… She forced her way through the crowd, and by the time she got as far as the boy, she was panting. ‘Akin’, she said. ‘Akin!’ The drummer boy turned round. There was a smile on his face, but his eyes were closed. Madam Bisi pressed the note into his hands ‘Take this boy, and God bless you’. He smiled again, but did not open his eyes. And then it dawned suddenly on Bisi that this boy had not merely closed his eyes out of the excitement of the day. He was blind. Such an attractive boy, too; and he was blind. Madam Bisi left. That was the first encounter Madam Bisi had with Akin. But Madam Bisi found it difficult to forget Akin which i...
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