Africa (goin' Back Home)

Doug E. Fresh & The Get Fresh Crew

When I left to go Africa people said....



Don't come back with no with craft on your head



I just left the comment blank and kept my cool



Because they only said what they was taught in school



Brainwashed education



Of our nation



Publicized in its prime



To be behind the time



Adequate excuse



And all verbal abuse



Our history is a mystery



So what's the use???




Sala mali cume,mali cume salaam



Sala mali cume,mali cume salaam



Sala mali cume,mali cume salaam




Now I took me a trip to Africa



A seven hour flight from America



I got off the plane and what did I see



But some brothers and sisters who look like me



Warm greetings,hello,hi's



Alot of mosquitos and a whole lot of flys




Young ones try to persuade you to buy



To feed their families so no one dies



Of hunger,shelter,clothes and starvation



In the ghetto it's the same situation



Over big water so far I roam



To find my way back home



To find my way back home



To find my way back home




Now I woke up at two in the afternoon



In the middle of December which felt like June



I got on the bus,then all of us,caught a boat



As we listened to the jams we wrote



As the boat stayed afloat and we was close to shore



I seem an Island one I felt I seem before



I was gonna ask the guide,but I forgot his name



So I said,"It ain't nuthin',all Islands are the same!"



Shame,who's the blame for that inside shame



Then I found out Goree Island was the name



Aim was to proceed with the mystery



Of the hidden,forbidden history



Goree Island was the last place the slaves was brought



Before take