Colonizing a people is rape
You grab them by the jugular
And throw them down
You beat them
Then undress them
And steal their treasures
You ravish them
You lead them by the neck into bondage
To continue to satisfy your lust at will
To produce bastards for your children to continue to devour
Then you insult their memory by saying they asked for it by being uncivilized
You perpetuate their trauma for generations by keeping evidence of their rape in your museums
For your children and those of others to voyeuristically pleasure themselves as they relive how you raped them
Odes to your glory, greed and viciousness
This is the colonial legacy wherever it was wrought
Yet the rapist continues to claim the high ground
He says, they asked for it so I did it
I ravished them to civilize them
I keep their treasures I stole because they do not deserve it
I raped them because they are weak
This is the colonial legacy in Africa
The classic legacy of a rape so vile and so complete
Yes, so complete
Because the victim equates the rape of the coloniser as true love
When a decent lover shows up and says I love you
I give you your treasures, let you own your land and be yourself
The victim says no you don’t love me
Whip me! choke me! throw me down! ravish me! rape me!
Yes! Yes! this is how I know you love me
The victim pines for the love of the coloniser
They run to their capitals to live and call that the high life
The coloniser says I am tired of raping you, I am done with you
Now go back to where I brought you from
The victim cries no, please rape me more
Do not leave me
How can I survive without your abuse?
This is the tale of Africa
The story of its rape and its pining to be continuously raped
Both the raper and the raped, the coloniser and the colonised
Are now in an eternal tango of rough ravishment
The coloniser can no longer get rid of the victim
And the colonised cannot envision a life without being victimized
So they must now carry on together for eternity
Destinies bound, never to unleash.
Adebayo Alonge 