The Black revival is a subtle process, largely invisible to the eye accustomed to viewing black downpression as a permanent state, and is mostly felt by a small but growing group of people scattered in a variety of places. Small one person bands, activists and ordinary folk, who feel it in their soul, and know that the time has arrived - The time long envisioned by Marcus, Paul (Robeson), Kwame, Amilcar, Malcolm, Bob Marley, Mandela and freedom loving Africans everywhere. The time of African revival.

Sometimes it can be seen

in the changing perception

of the umbilical connection

between mother and diaspora,

a growing acceptance of Oneness

and the slow stirring to wakefulness

of the Sleeping Giant - Global Africa,

African Mother and Diaspora.

There is a growing awareness in Nigeria

of responsibility to Diaspora

A Pan African revival in Ghana

the noises in Africa

are the thundering collapse

of colonial structure

Like scales falling off the eyes

of the sleeping giant.

There is motion in the horn of Africa

And movement in Liberia

Even in Somalia

Sometimes it can be seen in Haarlem

Where Africa alive and well in street markets,

shed multi colored hues

to light the path of Harlem' s own revival.

Some say it is in the wind in D.C.

and in the air in Boston

and on the streets of Los Angeles,

Other times it can be seen

in some unusual places

like Black Women gathering in Costa Rica

and the rise of Africans in Latin America

and in CDR's in Havana

or the unending work of Mama Achola

Or in the words of Mutabaruka,

Some hear its rumblings in Bahia

and see it carried on the wings of the samba.

Yet others feel it spiritually,

while some hear it culturally

coming from places like Dangriga.

People in the know

say it is happening musically,

with people like Ibo and Willie

Others say Diaspora is responding politically

With soldiers like Elombe and Samori

Randall and Rashidi

Global Africa is awakening in its entirety.

Others have seen it in Kenya

happening scientifically at ICIPE

while some are quick to note

a prevalence of economic summitry

between Mother and Diaspora.

Awakening is happening diplomatically

As OAU too demands reparations for slavery.

Students will tell you its happening academically

with increasing interest in our history,

energized by Van Sertima's discovery 

and psychologically as we seek to erase

slavery's legacy

a prerequisite for awakening organisationally.

It can be seen in diaspora to diaspora connections

as each reclaim their own

make their reconnections

recognising interconnectivity

and then relink with Mother Africa

for process of unity.

Diaspora to diaspora to Mother

in Neco-Souths methodology.

Most crucially,

it is happening with our youth

Even though some say

it is occurring fashionably,

this is a big step on the road

to identity and Global African creativity.

Its Essence is in awarding excellence

and praising sensitivity.

Beneath the smoke and seeming confusion

it is there in South Africa

the awakening of Mama Africa

the place where Gwangwa says,

the tears that mothers shed

made the waterfalls that bled

and whose struggle now approaches a watershed

with apartheid mortally wounded in South Africa,

and in Namibia dead.

For centuries oppression was force-fed,

while seeds of our resistance were breast-fed

and through Mother Africa' tears

African Mothers' tears- were irrigated

turning them into rivers of resistance

which one day soon

will wash oppression away.

And there is a place

where all our rivers meet

and it is in the Oceans

of our common consciousness

connecting us to the universe

and providing sustenance for Global Africa.

The 500 year long dark night

is slowly fading

and oases of light are beginning to appear

in our deserts of despair

Global Africa is awakening

in its entirety.

It is 2000 o'clock

Do you know where your children are?

And Global Africa answers

I know where my children are

Once fallen and dismembered

they thought we would never awake

But now we are rising

all over the world.

Global Africa Is Rising In Its Entirety.