Rise up
Rise up
Rise up
Rise up
Five-hundred years is a long time
Africans have been understanding (aye)
Wake up sleeping lion, protect your pride (aye)
Unchain the mind, from the bondage (aye)
Open your eyes, and look around (yeah, aye)
Protect your people, and the borders
Protect the land, and the culture (aye)
Don't let religion, divide you (aye, my people)
Afrika must rise again (rise again)
Afrika must rise once again (rise again)
Afrika must rise again (rise again)
Afrika must be one again (rise again)
(Rise again)
Victimization of African people must stop
Brutalization of black people must end
We welcome them in Africa, with open arms (aye)
And what we get in return is abuse (aye)
African Union, where are you?
Repatriation is a must my people
Eliminate corruption and build Afrika
Afrika must rise again (rise again)
Afrika must rise again yeah, yeah (rise again)
Motherland must rise again (rise again)
Afrika must be one, once again (rise again)
He who feeds you, controls you - Thomas Sanakara
Africa for Africans at home and abroad - Marcus Garvey
A winner is a dreamer who never gives up - Nelson Mandela
A man who stands for nothing will fall for everything - Malcolm X
Strike the women and you strike the rock - Winnie Mandela
Unity cannot be taken for granted - Jomo Kenyatta
Afrika must rise again (rise again)
The land of great kings and warriors (rise again)
The oldest civilization that we know, duniani (rise again)
It is better to die on our feet than
To live on our knees, aye (rise again)
Afrika must rise again, aye (rise again)
Land of great kings and queens, (rise again)
Home of Queen of Sheba, Africa, aye (rise again)
Julius Malema, keep on fighting, aye (rise again)
Free, free at last - Martin Luther King
Afrika must rise again