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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 November 2024
For many years I have not wept
not because my eyes are dry
or my heart is stiff with cold
but this time unawares
my head and heart could not endure
my tears moistened the morning paper
A black man white of heart
murdered by a white man whose heart is black
But it is not the murderer who has been killed
Lumumba will live forever
Lumumba died to live eternally
Today this earth is not for the black white man
but for all
white, yellow, brown, black
Now the air is filled with Lumumba
for Lumumba stands for freedom
Dipa Nusantara AiditTransl. Bintang SuradiDedicated to the Second Conference of Afro-Asian Writers Indonesia Sings of Afro-Asia (Jakarta: League of People’s Culture Indonesia, 1962).
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