Rich Land, Poor People by Sindano Karemera

Added: 2026-06-03

[00:00:03]Yeah.

[00:00:03]>> [music] >> African motherland, so much gold under your feet.

[00:00:10]>> [music] >> So much fire in your children, but why the table still empty?

[00:00:18]Listen.

[00:00:18]>> [music] >> Africa no poor, but the people still they cry.

[00:00:25]Diamond [music] there in the ground, but the children asking why.

[00:00:30]Oil they flow, cocoa [music] they grow, but the village road still full of hole.

[00:00:36]Gold leave the soil.

[00:00:37]>> [music] >> Copper leave the mine.

[00:00:42]Foreign ship they sell with our future [music] every time.

[00:00:48]We sell the raw, buy it back with shame.

[00:00:51]Then wonder why poverty [music] still know our name.

[00:00:54]They took the land and they changed the plan.

[00:00:57]New border lines with the strangers [music] and brother against brother, nation against nation. Colonial wounds still they bleed through [music] generations. Then then bad leaders sit up on the throne, build big mansion [music] while the people stand alone.

[00:01:12]Budget disappear, hospital no light, school no book, but the minister fly tonight. [music] Tell me how this economy go grow when the farmer no get rain.

[00:01:23]>> [music] >> Tell me how the youth go rise when the system feeds them pain.

[00:01:29]>> [music] >> But Africa, don't lose your soul. Your story no finish today.

[00:01:34][music] If we clean our hands and unite our hearts, we go find another way.

[00:01:42]Rich land, poor people. How long [music] we go suffer so?

[00:01:48]Plenty blessing under our feet, >> [music] >> but hunger still they knock the door.

[00:01:54]Rich land, poor people. This you must understand. [music] Ah, Africa no poor by creation, na the [music] system underline.

[00:02:06]Yeah, yeah, rise up my people, [music] build the future with your hands, clean hearts, clean leaders, let justice heal the land. We will rise up my people, [music] no more sleeping in the pain, if Africa believe [music] again.

[00:02:23]Africa go rise again.

[00:02:25]We train the youth but no job dey wait.

[00:02:28]So the best minds run to [music] another gate. Brain drain flying across the sea, taking tomorrow from the family [music] tree. Education weak, innovation slow.

[00:02:40]Too much talent with nowhere to go. If we no [music] build factory, science and skill, we go keep importing another [singing] man's wheel. Corruption dey eat like termite inside.

[00:02:52]>> [music] >> Tribalism dey divide the pride. We vote for name, not vision and plan. Then cry when hunger [singing] dey hold the land.

[00:03:01]Dependency [music] chain still tie our hand.

[00:03:04]They come today but no root in the soil.

[00:03:06][music] Africa must trade with dignity, own our value, own our industry. Tell me how this seed go grow >> [singing and music] >> when the farmer no get a way.

[00:03:18]Tell me how the youth go [singing] rise when the system feeds [music] them pain.

[00:03:24]Africa don't lose your soul. Your story no finish [singing] today. [music] If we clean our hands and unite our hearts, we go find another way.

[00:03:36]Rich [music] land, poor people, how long we go suffer so? How long we go suffer so? Plenty blessing [music] on the earth but hunger still dey knock [singing] the door.

[00:03:48]Rich land, [music] poor people, this truth we must understand. This truth Africa no no poor by creation. [music] Now this is the >> [singing] >> mood of the land. Rise [music] up my people. Build the future with your hands.

[00:04:05]Clean hearts, clean leaders, [singing] let justice heal the [music] land.

[00:04:09]Rise up my >> [singing] >> people. No more sleeping in the pain.

[00:04:14]If Africa [music] believe again, Africa go rise again. No more selling [music] tomorrow cheap.

[00:04:22]No more leaders what the children need.

[00:04:25]No more tribe before [music] humanity.

[00:04:28]No more greed over community. Teach [music] the child to build, not beg.

[00:04:34]Teach the youth to stand, not fear.

[00:04:36][music] Teach the leaders service, not [singing] pride. Let the people walk side by side.

[00:04:43]Reach out but the story can change today.

[00:04:48]When truth enter [music] government and justice lead the way.

[00:04:54]>> [music] >> Reach out but that is where we were born to be.

[00:05:00]Africa, [music] wake up your power.

[00:05:03]Set the children free.

[00:05:07]Rise up my people.

[00:05:09]>> [music] >> Build the future with your hands. Clean hearts, clean leaders, let justice [music] heal the land.

[00:05:16]Rise up my people. No more sleeping in the pain.

[00:05:21]If [music] Africa believe again, Africa go rise again.

[00:05:27]>> [music] >> Africa go rise again. Africa go rise again.

[00:05:32]>> [music] >> Not by begging, not by fear, but by truth, work, and [music] unity.

[00:05:39]Africa go rise again. [music]