Trans-African Highway, Pt. 2 ft. SoulChef Lyrics

Addis Ababa, Nairobi, Asmera, Khartoum, Harare, Hargeza, Mogadishu, Kigali, Kinshasa, Dar es Salaam, Lagos Accra, Dakar, Kampala, Lusaka, Johannesburg, Durban, and Pretoria, Freetown, Cape Town, Cairo, Casablanca Tunis, Algiers, Tripoli, Luanda, Bamako, Maputo, Abuja, Kumasi, Yaounde, Mwanza, Dodoma, Niamey Ouagadougou, Juba, Lilongwe, Bujumbura, Bangui, Brazzaville, Mombasa, Lomé, Bissau, Djibouti, Monrovia...

City to city, whole continent, Africa

Unified especially in the minds of Diaspora

Slums to the village, Townships to the gritty core

To refugee camps and lands plagued by war

Youth that don't speak their language no more

Ancestors kidnapped off shores

Empires built by work that's forced

For hundreds of years there's an African source

For all american culture exports

There's nothing more beautiful than Black to me

Nothing more complex than our history

Sankofa followed me since they first said go back

And get what you lost, fractals in a cross

Every time I rhyme I'm carrying a torch

Can't shake it

It's more sacred than I could say

In some ways, a stage is the only place I'm safe

To shine all ways with my true spirit face

Mulatu Astatke taught me bout grace

I'm still learning, may my actions give thanks

For all those who came, and walked through the flames

Carried scars and the pain and lived anyway

Who passed on a joy deeper than any shame

We are healing in public

You call it a game

I want my heart to touch yours and to break all chains

Free the land, free the people, may the borders erase

To build a future, know from where you came