Million Voices Uniting Africa
Million Voices Uniting Africa
"Million voices", a song by Wyclef Jean, criticizes ex-colonial powers for splitting Africa into so many countries and thus, making them very weak economically. In the lyrics; "Why can't Africa be the United States of Africa",(An example to the U.S.A) refers to the unnecessary division of the continent, which would be much stronger if it were unified.
Wyclef Jean born in Croix-des-Bouquets, Haiti was named Wyclef Jean by his adoptive father, a pastor who re-named him after John Wycliff, (was an English theologian and an early dissident in the Roman Catholic Church during the 14th century). He moved with his family to Brooklyn, New York when he was nine, then to northern New Jersey. Wyclef Jean and many of the people in his home country as well as other Caribbean including many Latin American countries, are originally from Africa, brought to the Americas by slave traders from Europe. Many African-Americans and Caribbean’s do not......
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