5 – from my album 1st nature.
“Five” – from my album “First Nature”.
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2015
UCHE THE ENIGMA
„Uche the Enigma“
from my album „First Nature“ (2016)
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There’ll Be Help Along The Way (Live 14.2.18)
“There’ll Be Help Along The Way”
from my album “First Nature” (2009).
This live version is slightly different from the original version I recorded in the album.
Both version are nice, and I play them alternatingly.
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KEEPER
„Keeper“ / „Sister‘s Keeper, Brothers‘ Keeper“
from my album „First Nature“ (2016)
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IF YOU DON‘T MAKE ANYTHING
“If You Don’t Make Anything”
from my album “First Nature” (2016)
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HIDDEN STREETS WITHIN YOUR HEART
“Hidden Streets Within Your Heart”
from my album “First Nature” (2016)
Listen to the full album:
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THE SADNESS OF KNOWING
“The Sadness of Knowing”
from my album “First Nature” (2016)
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HELP COMES
Things that long seemed impossible Manifest suddenly just before the window Of opportunity closes. Many a miracle Is undramatic, almost mundane, a narrow Dirt track fit for walking or at best a bicycle running beside a highway leading to hollow Shallow goals for the spiritually superficial And there right next to it, quiet and mellow This simple path opens up with no noticeable Features except this: it is your heart’s echo Returning long after you sent an inaudible Piercing cry for help. Swing chariot, swing low, Swooping down out of the blue Inconceivable And carrying me home to a better tomorrow. Che Chidi Chukwumerije Poems from the inner river
ALL AND NOTHING
You cannot have it all
Appreciate what you have and give gratitude
The fruits that want to fall
The fruits that have to fall
The fruits that will fall
Let them fall
You cannot have it all
Where you have nothing appreciate your solitude
For you can never have it all.
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Poems from the inner river
OF QUEENS AND KINGS AND INDEPENDENT NATIONS
The Queen is dead. Long live the King.
The best payback against Colonialism is not to throw powerless insults at their monarchy and blame them for all your self-made failings, but to develop your nation until you rival them – and surpass them.
China did it. India is doing it. African countries, when are you going to do it too??? Surpass them and you will shut them up without you even saying a word. What is holding Africa down is in Africa. It is not in Europe.
Build your perfect system and you will live forever as Kings and Queens in the circle of nations. The British monarchy can continue to live and exist – why should that matter to me? Their existence or non-existence, their happiness or sadness, won’t change a thing in Africa or the condition of Africans. Instead, what the world needs now, and desperately, is a productive and highly developed New Africa. The dream of our Nkrumahs. And it can only be done FROM WITHIN.
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