O Africa! (O Africa!)
Land of our fathers
E choke!
Beautiful nation, land of honey and milk
Spices dey flow like water, gold and silk
Colonial masters came with their mighty ship
Scattered our people, started that wicked trip
Slave trade scatter us, wound us deep
Take us cross the ocean, make us no fit sleep
Sugar plantation, dem force us to till
But African spirit, e no fit kill
I am black and I am proud!
(Say it loud!)
African blood dey run for my vein
Jaja, Crowder, Aggrey dem fight the pain
I am black and I am proud!
(Stand tall!)
We don rise, we no go fall again
Africa! Africa! We go reign!
Dem carry Jaja go, dem carry Crowder go
Aggrey and many more, e pain us so
But our heroes stand, dem fight to stop am
Free the Africans, break every chain
From Lagos to Accra, Nairobi to Jo'burg
Our ancestors' blood dey speak, e dey shout loud
We remember the struggle, we remember the cost
But African spirit, e no go lost
I am black and I am proud!
(Say it loud!)
African blood dey run for my vein
Jaja, Crowder, Aggrey dem fight the pain
I am black and I am proud!
(Stand tall!)
We don rise, we no go fall again
Africa! Africa! We go reign!
Milk and honey dey flow again
African power dey show again
We no go forget where we come from
Black skin, African sun!
(Glory!)
O Africa! (Beautiful nation!)
I am proud! (So proud!)
Black and proud!
E choke!